Q: Can I use a FCX library on a PC
My issue is that was given footage as a FCX library, rather than the individual files. I do not own a Mac.
Can I open a FCX library in any Windows based editing software such as Premiere Pro, and if not, is there a way that I can 'extract' the files from the library on my PC?
Posted on Jun 13, 2016 1:48 PM
You can in fact copy a Library to a FAT drive, it's just very useless once you do.
Go back to the Mac guys, have them right-click the Library, "Open Package Contents", and copy just the video files out of that. A Library is a "package" on a Mac. It has lots of stuff hidden inside of it. Windows doesn't recognize packages, so it gets useless with a Windows OS.
If they're editing with FCPX, and you're using a different NLE in Windows, then they need to give you the raw footage to work with, and maybe an FCPXML file processed through XtoCC, if your NLE reads XML files. And that will be a less than perfect solution.
Posted on Jun 13, 2016 2:34 PM