Where does FCP 7 fit in with Production Premium?
I’ll admit it. I had a bad knee-jerk reaction and deleted FCP Studio from my machine.
I got over it, and reinstalled FCP 7. I’ll still use it when I need to move projects to Premiere, or if I want to use Plural Eyes to sync audio to my Canon 5D. (They don’t offer a crossgrade so using the FCP version for now).
If you want to move projects over from FCP 7, you need to save them as xml and then open this in Premiere Pro.
Adobe has a tutorial on the workflow here. (Note, update to 5.5.1 before you do this.)
There is also a great free script called “fcp to ae” from Popcorn Island for movingFCP projects to After Effects.(Like Automatic Duck, but without the steep price and tech support.)
Some may prefer to still use FCP 7 and then send the xml to AE with this script, and I don’t blame you. (if ain’t broke don’t fix it philosophy.) For me I am teaching Premiere instead of FCP these days so I don’t have a choice.
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My Journey from Adobe to Apple and back again
I started using Final Cut Pro V1 when I was working as a video editor for Weather.com.
We did the editing of news packages and repurposing of content for the website of The Weather Channel.
We used Premiere (I believe version 5.1) for our day to day editing, but when FCP 1 arrived we started using it to cut longer form pieces.
I had previous experience with Media Composer, & Media 100 from the 90′s when I taught at the Art Institute of Atlanta.
FCP had its issues being a version 1 software, but it was more stable than Premiere and a lot cheaper than Avid MC.
FCP evolved steadily, and I became a Certified FCP Trainer in 2001 while I was working as a QA tester for Apple.
Now with FCP Studio EOL, I felt I needed to learn FCP X or look at Premiere Pro or Media Composer.
I decided I didn’t want a “one app to rule them all” so I went with Adobe Production Premium. I am working with Media Composer enough to stay current with it so I can edit a freelance project if needed.
So as I transition I am going to blog about my experiences. I work as an Adobe Instructor (Premiere & After Effects) and a Freelance Shooter/Editor, so a bit of what I write about will come out of questions I get while teaching the software. Others will come from my own experience of learning how this new software thinks.
For years when I taught FCP I joked with the students that “It’s not about you, it’s about FCP”. What I meant by that is they needed to learn what the software was trying to do (the logic behind it). That is just as true for PP, so as I adapt to how it thinks I will share those experiences.
My new day to day software is Production Premium (which ‘ll refer to as PP), and I’ll be blogging about my transition to PP CS 5.5.
My wife & I also shoot with Canon DSLR’s, a Stealth HD cam (crash camera similar to GO Pro), and a Tascam Dr-100, so expect the occasional blog on that.
If you have questions/comments or want to see on a tutorial on specific task, let me know.
I don’t work for Adobe and this is not intended as a comprehensive training guide, just one editors transition to a new way of working.
If you are looking for comprehensive training I personally suggest Creative Cow & Video2Brain, and the book ‘An Editor’s guide to Premiere Pro”.
Cheers
Clay Asbury, Sept. 23, 2011
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