Importing Premier clips

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rezn

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I have some footage that was captured in premier and need to work with the footage in Avid.

What should I do? Import or recapture?
 
Export from Premier as Quicktime and import those into Avid. If you need to keep timecode then it's easiest just to recapture.
 
Nope. Just know what kind of footage you're dealing with and choose a quicktime codec to match. I.E. if it's DVX footage then render to a Quicktime in Premiere with a DV25 codec.
 
Last Question,
When I import it, will the media files be converted to Avid files or will I have to keep the exported premiere files?

Thanks for your help
 
It will be wrapped in Avid's OMF or MXF wrapper (depending on your settings in Xpress pro). It will still be DV25 encoded material, but if you wanted to go back from Avid to Premiere you'd have to export it again from Avid and re-import it into Premiere.

Does that answer your question?
 
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