Incompatibilities between Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro

[mrSHEiK124]

I've got to send some video to someone for editing into a much larger........montage...

I ripped my DV tapes using Premiere Pro; they're DV files in an AVI container. He wants the tapes because apparently Final Cut Pro does not like AVIs. I can't send him the tapes, they have some personal stuff on them (no pr0n, just some stuff after the talent show mentioned in my other thread, a few guys acting stupid, being profane, etc.).

I do have QuickTime Pro, and the DV-AVIs open just fine in QT. Plus, I tried saving as .mov, and lo and behold it basically just put the DV stream into a MOV container as the file size is exactly the same and the quality did not change. Premiere can open and handle these MOV/DV files. Is it safe to assume they'll open in Final Cut Pro? When I play the files in Premiere they play back over my camcorder too, I'm guessing they're bit for bit identical but in a different container.

 

[Koing]

I'm suprised the dv rip doesn't work in fcp on the mac, its pretty standard!

Koing

 

[mrSHEiK124]

Originally posted by: Koing
I'm suprised the dv rip doesn't work in fcp on the mac, its pretty standard!

Koing

That's why I'm pretty pissed. Way to promote video editing and all that other fruity artsy crap when your own video editing software doesn't support the widest used method of transporting DV files on a PC. I'm not even sure FCP can't handle DV-AVI, as I don't have a Mac or FCP to test this on. Plus it's going to take me a good 15 minutes to save all these files as DV files in a .mov container, time I could be spending burning these damn things to DVD.

 

[Modelworks]

Originally posted by: mrSHEiK124
I've got to send some video to someone for editing into a much larger........montage...

I ripped my DV tapes using Premiere Pro; they're DV files in an AVI container. He wants the tapes because apparently Final Cut Pro does not like AVIs.

He does not know what he is doing.
Final Cut works just fine with AVI.

 

[mrSHEiK124]

Originally posted by: Modelworks

Originally posted by: mrSHEiK124
I've got to send some video to someone for editing into a much larger........montage...

I ripped my DV tapes using Premiere Pro; they're DV files in an AVI container. He wants the tapes because apparently Final Cut Pro does not like AVIs.

He does not know what he is doing.
Final Cut works just fine with AVI.

So Final Cut will open a type 2 DV-AVI? I don't have to sit here and wait for QuickTime to basically take an hour's worth of video out of the regular paper binder than everyone knows how to handle and watch it put in a piece of shit rainbow binder the Mac can open?

 

[IEC]

He's probably not doing something right, or needs to download and patch his software.

Then again during the semester I work in a multimedia lab... all Mac G5s w/24" panels which are thankfully going to be replaced by C2D based Macs. I swear I have less issues with PCs then with application crashes and strange behavior in that lab...

 

[Modelworks]

I have never had final cut not open any file unless it was corrupted or way out of spec.
Even then it surprised me.
If you used the correct resolutions and format for the file type, it will work fine.

 

[mrSHEiK124]

Sooooooo, if I mail him a few data DVDs with the DV-AVIs on them I won't be wasting my time and money and end up mailing tapes anyways? These are straight from Premiere, right off my camcorder. Type 2 DV-AVIs, NTSC, 16:9.

 

[Modelworks]

Originally posted by: mrSHEiK124
Sooooooo, if I mail him a few data DVDs with the DV-AVIs on them I won't be wasting my time and money and end up mailing tapes anyways? These are straight from Premiere, right off my camcorder. Type 2 DV-AVIs, NTSC, 16:9.

I can't see final cut having a problem with that.

 

[mrSHEiK124]

Originally posted by: Modelworks

Originally posted by: mrSHEiK124
Sooooooo, if I mail him a few data DVDs with the DV-AVIs on them I won't be wasting my time and money and end up mailing tapes anyways? These are straight from Premiere, right off my camcorder. Type 2 DV-AVIs, NTSC, 16:9.

I can't see final cut having a problem with that.

Thanks! YGPM btw...