Exporting a Primiere Project to Final Cut??

Moe

Moe

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Hi guys, I am working on a short film that I edited with Premiere Pro 1.5 I need to send the sound Designer the project, the problem is he does not have Premiere he has Final Cut. Is there something I can do so he can open my Premiere file on his final cut? He is asking me for a omf or an aaf file, do you guys know what that is? :huh:
Thanks
Moe
 
Automatic Duck have just released the OMF Export Plug in for PremPro.

It will export your audio timelines to another DAW system. (especially ProTools)

Why is your sound designer using FCP. Can not imagine it would do any better job on the audio than PremPro ( or Audition for that matter) ???

BTW:You need to export your video separately if you use OMF for PemPro but that is easy.
 
Yes, you cant expect to open a premiere project in any other NLE than premiere so the best way to duplicate the timeline is a EDL or AAF file. Once that file is exported another NLE will be able to recreate cuts and maybe opacity handles and keyframes. I Doubt effects applied would transfer over though but for a sound designer it should be fine.
 
Thanks for replying guys, i will try to download that plugin. Egproductions, how do I export to EDL or AAF file? do I need that same plug in?
 
i am not in front of my editing computer right now but i know its directly under one of the pulldown menus, if no luck then just do a search in the help file
 
Hey, I have a similar situation. I need to export a movie from Premier to FCP, but...

a) the export as Microsoft DV AVI makes FCP give me a warning along the lines of 'this format is not optimised for Final Cut', but teh quality is good

b) export as Quicktime DV PAL creates a file that is so poor in quality that its almost frightening

c) exprt with None (ie no compression) creates (of course) an enormous file, with good quality

I need the quality to be as high as it is in Premier. I tried also exporting using the Motion Jpeg A/B format, which created a file maybe 25% larger than I would have expected. But my question is, what's the best way to do it to get a good file size/quality ratio.

I would have thought the QuickTime option would have been perfect but it sucks.

Am I missing something obvious?
 
One thing you are missing is that "high or best quality" means big files.

PremPro is DV avi (native)
FCP is Quicktime native.

They are basically the same ( both DV avi) but have a different header sytem in the file structure.

Convert the DV avi to Quicktime ( lossless) and use that in FCP but if you want the quality , then, you have to bite the file size bullet.


I use Quicktime Pro for any conversions. Simple, easy and identical quality.
 
..looks like its been taken care of already, but i was going to say that you can export an AAF directly from PPRO it also supports EDL
 
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