This IS the Avid L2: RE: [Avid-L2] FCPX offline to MC for finishing

Saturday, September 27, 2014

RE: [Avid-L2] FCPX offline to MC for finishing

Why not have the producer rent Avid for $50 a month and buy lots of steak dinners with the time and money and anguish you'll save.

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From: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2014 8:56 AM
To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] FCPX offline to MC for finishing

Maybe if you go from FCPX to Resolve and from Resolve to Avid the conform can be a little less painful.

Just a thought.

Enviado desde mi teléfono.

El sep 27, 2014 11:19 AM, "John Pale pale.edit@gmail.com [Avid-L2]" <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> escribió:

I've done a couple of project moves from FCPX through X to 7/FCP 7 to Avid. I would really only do this in a drop dead emergency. There are way too many issues to make this a proper "finishing" workflow. You'll be doing yourself and more importantly, the project a big disservice. There is nothing to gain by trying to force this to work.

Honestly, due to the extreme differences in how FCPX handles things, you really should try to finish in FCPX. I have no experience with it, but I believe Resolve 11 and Smoke can deal with an FCPX project better, as there is support for type of XML that FCPX exports. Avid really is so fundamentally different from FCPX, you'll basically spend more time redoing things and dealing with oddities than actual "finishing".

What are your issues with finishing in FCPX? What do you hope to gain with bringing this into Avid? You won't improve the visual quality and you'll gain nothing but headaches trying to move this edit into Avid. I don't see any advantages, unless you are a PC based Avid-only house and desperately want to do this project despite all the headaches.

I much prefer editing in Avid myself, but there really is no sensible reason to use it for this.

On Friday, September 26, 2014, Terry Barnum terry@dop.com [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Can anyone share insights into this workflow? I've also asked on FCP-L.

We've got a lot of Sony FS700 AVCHD footage Shot Put Pro copied to FW drives. The thought was to have the producer offline with the current FCPX and then convert the project with X to 7 and then Automatic Duck to Avid for finishing.

But FCPX won't allow (the AMA-like) "Leave files in place" when importing AVCHD footage, meaning it wants to copy and rewrap everything. Not only is this time and disk consuming, I'm concerned that I won't be able to relink back to the original camera footage once in the Avid. I haven't been able to get into an edit bay to test so I don't know if this is a valid concern or not. Anyone know for sure?

Based on lots of searching today, it seems that "Leave files in place" used to work with AVCHD in the 10.0.x version of FCPX but it could be that this was due to the OS X or Quicktime version that was out at the time. I do recall a change at some point where OS X stopped displaying an AVCHD file/folder hierarchy but instead showed a single window with thumbnails of the footage, treating it as a Package file.

I know this is a long shot (and I apologize it's kinda FCPX specific for the Avid-L) but has anyone offlined AVCHD in FCPX, leaving the files in place (or not), and then finished in Avid?

You can reply directly if you think this is too far off topic.

Thanks,
-Terry

Terry Barnum
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