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Tuesday
Nov102009

FCP 7 XML INTO PREMIERE

Update! With the last update, Premiere Pro can now import the XML of FCP 7 flawlessly :-)

There are several ways to go from FCP to AE (I really like FCPToAE) but what about if you edited all your project in FCP and you need to import into Premiere? (Sometime it happens...).

Adobe worked hard improving Premiere and they did a very good job. A nice  feature is the possibility to import a FCP XML into Premiere but Apple changed something in the latest FCP (7) and now it doesn't work anymore. Some people reported that you have to use the XML version 4, without audio and effects in order to work and export an xml, importing into a system with FCP6 and exporting another xml.

I've found another method and it works also with audio.

1 From FCP 7 export a XML version 4

2 In Clipfinder choose Tools - Run conform on FCP XML file

3 In Xml input file choose the xml you have exported from FCP

4 In Xml output file choose a name that you want

5 Uncheck all the options 

6 In clip directories add where your source files are

7 Run Conform

8 Import the new Xml into Premiere

9 Enjoy!