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steezureboy

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Yo guys. I got a problem my friend uploaded his hpx170 footage onto final cut using capture (not copying the contents to hd). I need to grab his footage but the quicktime video formats can only be played on final cut. Im looking for the best way to transfer the video and lose the least amount of quality. Thanks.
 
I had the same sad story. Raylight saved my life. I found that my system bogs down or locks up when I try to export a long video when it's raylight file intensive. That part sucks but if there is no other option Raylight is your best friend.
 
It doesn't seem clear if CS4 supports the Quicktime DVCPROHD codec. It supports DVCPROHD as MXF / from the P2 cards, just like CS3. I think you would need a Quicktime codec update (which doesn't seem to be happening) to access Final Cut's Quicktime DVCPROHD exports unless you went with something like Raylight.
 
IDK, this sounds pretty clear to me:

"Final Cut Pro users can transfer projects directly to Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 version 4.0.1 without conversions or re-rendering, preserving commonly used effects and transitions."

So don't transfer QT movies, transfer the whole project. Of course, this is referring to if you're on the same machine, but seems like you could just package up the project on a HD and move that over to your adobe station.

I watched two demos of the quoted bit above recently. It's pretty sweet.
 
Final Cut takes all incoming MXF P2 footage and wraps it in Quicktime with the DVCPROHD codec (which is not available for PC other than Raylight and other 3rd parties).

steezureboy only has the Quicktime wrapped footage, not the original P2 data. Using CS4's Final Cut Project import will work with getting the timeline, bins, effects, etc.. to work in CS4, but it doesn't say it solves the problem of the lack of a DVCPRO HD quicktime codec for the PC.
 
steezureboy said:
Yo guys. I got a problem my friend uploaded his hpx170 footage onto final cut using capture (not copying the contents to hd). I need to grab his footage but the quicktime video formats can only be played on final cut. Im looking for the best way to transfer the video and lose the least amount of quality. Thanks.
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Export out of FCP using animation codec, it will be lossless. If you are going to Avid re-ingest and dump the Animation codec version as the file will be huge.
 
Supposedly with the new 4.0.1 update, Premiere Pro can take FCP projects, including the QuickTime rewraps.

I haven't tried it
 
David Jimerson said:
Supposedly with the new 4.0.1 update, Premiere Pro can take FCP projects, including the QuickTime rewraps.

I haven't tried it
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yeah, I just saw that 4.0.1. comedown on the autoupdate, would like to try pulling a FCP project, it would fill that nasty gap in mixed platform environments
 
I am interested in trying to work with a final cut sequence or to edit some final cut mov files.
I am using a PC with Adobe Premiere CS4.

IF anyone has some test footage, I can open up my home server to upload to.
Let me know what you have
 
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