Q: Can I Color Grade an FCP 7 project in Premiere?
I just completed a project in FCP 7 and need it to be color graded. The guy I was going to hire only has FCP X and Premiere. Is there a way for him to grade the project in premiere and then convert it back to an FCP 7 file without losing quality?
Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Posted on Jun 16, 2016 12:09 PM
Yes, you can work with your project in Premiere by exporting an XML of your project. Premiere Pro can read XMLfiles generated by FCP-7. The person getting the project must get, in addition to the XML of the project, ALL PERTINENT MEDIA to reconnect to (if necessary) on his system.
Regarding returning the files to FCP-7, do you mean you want the color corrected files to show up as editable files on your system? What exactly do you want the colorist to return?
Quality should not be an issue as long as you are working in codec such as ProRes.
MtD
Posted on Jun 16, 2016 1:42 PM