Here’s a typical project in FCP though short, this can easily illustrate the export process.

Here’s a tutorial showing how to transfer sequences from Premiere to Final Cut Pro.Here’s a tutorial showing how to transfer projects from Final Cut Pro to Premiere Pro.NOTE: Keep in mind – because it’s important – that because XML does NOT contain media, you will need to archive media files separately. But, for protection, also archive an XML of the same project. The fastest and best way to open a project is to open the native project file. If you are moving XML files between applications from different developers, media files, edits and dissolve transitions, for example, safely transfer while most titles and effects do not.Īlways archive your projects. If you open an XML file in the same application that created it, virtually all your project data should be safe. This is the path and file name of where your media is stored. So, exporting an XML file does not preserve your media, it only points to it. This is because XML files do NOT contain media – they simply contain a “pointer” to your media.

These text files are quite small, and readable by a wide variety of applications. XML files are designed for transferring files and data between applications. And that means exporting a finished project as an XML file, as well as saving the original project file. The key point I’m making is that, regardless of the NLE we use, it is essential that we preserve our media and edits for the future. But they would be if we had exported them as an XML file. NOTE: As another example, Final Cut Pro X 10.0 projects are no longer readable by today’s Final Cut. However, if we had simply exported our FCP 7 projects as XML, we could access them today via Premiere or DaVinci Resolve or today’s Final Cut Pro. Once FCP 7 stopped working, we lost access to ALL our old edits. Only FCP 7 could open FCP 7 project files. One of the big, painful, lessons we learned with the demise of Final Cut Pro 7 was that it stored our edits in a proprietary format. Project files are proprietary, XML files are designed for transfer and archiving.

For long-term archiving of any media project, I strongly recommend you export an XML version of every project you want to save – regardless of whether you use Adobe Premiere Pro or Apple Final Cut Pro.

Final cut library manager 3.6 serial