Importing transitions from imovie to final cut problems

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Importing transitions from imovie to final cut problems

Hello, I made a musicvideo in imovie, it´s all finished with cuts and transitions but I want to make the "final touch" with balance, colours etc in final cut.

The problem: when I import the imovie project into final cut pro x the clips and the transitions changes the duration so the clips nolonger sync with the music and some of the clips are much longer/shorter than the original. I don´t want to do all the job again, editing and add new transitions in final cut as it already took me a long time......Anyone have any solution?

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.5)

Posted on Feb 26, 2013 5:48 AM

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BenB

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Feb 26, 2013 6:56 AM in response to Jenholm

Transistions in iMovie do not translate to FCP X, they don't have the same things in them. Remove all transitions, then import it into FCP X, see if that helps. I'd have edited it all in FCP X to start with.

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Jenholm Author

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Feb 26, 2013 7:24 AM in response to BenB

You are supposed to be able to move a imovie project to final cut with transitions etc.

I´ve already once made the job in imovie and would prefer not to do it again since it then will be a new video with a new editing etc, I will not be able to make it the same way again, it´s a huge job when it comes to editing so I want to keep the video as it is just importing it to final cut.

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Feb 26, 2013 8:56 AM in response to Jenholm

You can delete the transitions in iMovie and re-add them after importing into FCP X. Granted, this is some work, but it should not be all that much. It is easy to add a number of transitions and to set their parameters all at once.

Like BenB said, transitions behave differently in both programs, and they do not match, so this conversion can cause problems, as you are now well aware.

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