Avid from FCP possibilities?

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RossS

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Here's a dilema I hope someone can answer for me. I am about to shoot a sports show on several formats (Panasonic Varicam, Digi Beta, Beta SP, Mini DV). Digitizing will be done onto a few 500GB GRaid2 drives. I am more comfortable with FCP Studio, but also have Avid Xpress DV (v. 4.8.1). I will do some basic editing, but the post house I will use for the bulk of it uses Avid. Is there any way I can start this project on FCP
, but then "transfer" it to Avid to bring it to my post house? Tell me if there are any necessary details I have left out. Thanks for any help.
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What about all the digitized footage. Doesn't FCP digitize the footage into Quicktime files and aren't those unreadable by Avid?
 
RossS said:
What about all the digitized footage. Doesn't FCP digitize the footage into Quicktime files and aren't those unreadable by Avid?
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As far as I remember you can import the movies but you will loose the metadata nessesary for the online. Timecode and reel name will be lost, additional I've had audio sync issues on the imports.

Personaly I wouldnt start a project in FCP and finish it in an avid system to send it to online. I'd just stick with the avid in this case, it will make the online smoother and cheaper.
 
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