Automated audio & video conversion for FCP
I have the following problem
A user of FCP opens an already existing project. This is user is a good editor but has little knowledge about encoding parameters and video compression. At a certain point this user needs to add new footage to the project. The source of this footage can be a phone, a consumer camera, a professional camera, actually it can be anything. The new footage needs to be converted to the same format as is used on the project's timeline. Is there an easy way for this user to do this other than coming to me and saying: "Here is some new footage, i don't know anything about it but please convert i so that i can use it in my project of which i know no technical details either". I was hoping for something like connecting Compressor to FCP so that Compressor knows what the project settings are and then do the conversion automatically without user instructions. Or i could write some software around FFmpeg - but for that i need to all the details of the audio & video format on FCP's timeline. Exporting the project to XML does not seem to give enough detail for a conversion with FFmpeg.
Any help will be appreciated. Thanks
Sven
Final Cut Pro 7