Premiere Pro CS5 - FCP Roundtrip

In this Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 QuickTip we take a look at the Final Cut Pro Roundtrip. I show you how you can export a sequence from Premiere Pro CS5 for further editing in Final Cut Pro and then take that sequence back into Premiere for further non-destructive editing

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• FCP
• CS5
• Premiere Pro
• Evan Butson

[pksmb1120]

I'm really wanting Apple to hurry up and release a newer FCP suite and quit focusing so much on the iPOD iPAD junk right now.FCP doesn't make use of multi-core processors, and I'm on an i7. I'm just so used to FCP that Premiere would be a bit of a learning curve for me. Where I work everything is done on PCs (which I passionately hate) and still using CS3. I always have issues capturing HD footage and put it in a timeline and mix it with SD footage at times. FCP just works better for me.

[evanbutson]

@pksmb1120 I agree a new FCP would be nice, but Apple make more from itunes in a month than they do from all their pro apps in a year. I would deffiantely look at CS5, as it is such a different beast compared to CS3, that is why you are seeing so many FCP users jumping ship to CS5.

[dmlprod]

Why would you need to work / export your edit on FCP? Is Premiere more limited for the actual Editing?

Anyway CS5 sounds like a great product, seriously thinking of switching.

[evanbutson]

@dmlprod Just gives you flexibility, recently on a job another edited in FCP and then I had to finish for him so I did it in Prem, I then gave him the finished job as an fcp job so he could media manage it for his company

[CircuitBentResistor]

How did you get a mercury playback engine on a macbook pro. I thought you had to have an NVidia GPU card? Any links you can give me for a beginning editor to figure out how this engine works?

[evanbutson]

@beatakeshii I do most of my CC using Magic Bullet Looks, for when I need to do something more complicated I use AFX, but usually Magic Bullet Looks in Premiere is more than enough

[evanbutson]

@djlobb Its just how they have programmed it, nothing special. Agree though, it is annoying how FCP is a bunch of seperate windows

[beatakeshii]

@djlobb I really agree with you, at least for Premiere Pro CS5, that have so many new functions and all very useful. Wich color corrector you prefere? or AFX?

And why do you use both softwares? greetings man.

[djlobb]

I also like how premiere has all it's windows contained by default in the main program, so many times when closing the FCP window I've had to re-load my default Window layout because I've closed the wrong box >_>