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Converting adobe to final cut?

john baker

13 years, 3 months ago - john baker

Hi Shooters

I’ve recently been working on a documentary where around 80 hours of footage was shot and captured onto adobe premiere using a PC. The situation has now changed and we now need to convert to final cut.

Is it possible to convert without losing any of the work that we have spent countless hours editing?

Can any shooters please offer some much needed help and advice?

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Chris W

13 years, 3 months ago - Chris W

Hmm good one

Obviously if you have saved the project in Adobe file format the that won't
translate well to Apple

Have you got a rough cut ready or organised in scenes?

You could always bounce out high res QuickTimes then re-import them back into
Final Cut ?

Hope this helps?

Cheers. CW

Nicole Dolder

13 years, 3 months ago - Nicole Dolder

Hi John,

This depends very much on your version of Premiere Pro. In later versions you simply select the sequence in the project then in File/Export export as a Final Cut XML. I believe there is no path to Final Cut X though.

Hope this helps,
Nicole

Andrew Murchie

13 years, 3 months ago - Andrew Murchie

Hi

We did this recently and we effectively exported an XML file from Premiere and
imported it into Final Cut. This brought in all the edits etc. In CS5.5 there is an
"Export to FInal Cut Pro XML" in the File > Export menu.

Andrew

Malwina Sworczuk

13 years, 3 months ago - Malwina Sworczuk

I would suggest to extract the edited footage into a single clip and then convert it with MPEG Streamclip, which is a free software. Good luck! Mal