Video workflow: Final Cut and Logic

ben_allison · 15th September 2010

So you have a video, with audio. Also you'll be adding narration and soundtrack.

You want to edit in Final Cut, but you want to mix in Logic. How on earth could this be done smoothly?

The idea of bouncing things, having to make an edit to one of the cuts, and trying to export/import etc seems so sloppy. Would the idea be to bring everything into FCP, make all your edits, finalize the project, then export an OMF to mix in Logic... then reimport the final audio track? Again... that seems a bit sloppy.

Any tips?

ekwipt · 15th September 2010

Export omf and mix in logic, but everyone I know does this in protools or nuendo. Logics not very good at this as far as I can tell.

Soudtrack pro was more designed for this in mind, hopefully future updates pull soundtrack and logic into one neat program

ben_allison · 15th September 2010

Quote:

Originally Posted by ekwipt

Export omf and mix in logic, but everyone I know does this in protools or nuendo. Logics not very good at this as far as I can tell.

Soudtrack pro was more designed for this in mind, hopefully future updates pull soundtrack and logic into one neat program

I'd love if they just merged STP with FCP somehow, and just had great mixing be internal.

Fajita · 15th September 2010

Avid Media Composer now has RTAS plug-in support, but is still only frame accurate.

Can you do Sample Accurate audio in a Video editing program? Vegas perhaps?

ben_allison · 15th September 2010

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fajita

Avid Media Composer now has RTAS plug-in support, but is still only frame accurate.

Can you do Sample Accurate audio in a Video editing program? Vegas perhaps?

That the most annoying thing; cuts always happen on the frame. Grr. And the level/pan control are SO crude.

api2500 · 15th September 2010

The few times I have done it, I've edited the video fully, colour and etc then export it into OMF and mix in Logic.

Last time, the song was complete, so I edited it to the song so everything was frame accurate, then I exported it into logic and then stretched the audio till that was accurate too.

I'd like to stress I'm not a Post Pro guy.

ekwipt · 16th September 2010

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fajita

Avid Media Composer now has RTAS plug-in support, but is still only frame accurate.

Can you do Sample Accurate audio in a Video editing program? Vegas perhaps?

FCP and Avid are both only frame accurate

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ben_allison Lives for gear Joined: Apr 2006 Location: Toronto Posts: 1,182 Thread Starter	Video workflow: Final Cut and Logic So you have a video, with audio. Also you'll be adding narration and soundtrack. You want to edit in Final Cut, but you want to mix in Logic. How on earth could this be done smoothly? The idea of bouncing things, having to make an edit to one of the cuts, and trying to export/import etc seems so sloppy. Would the idea be to bring everything into FCP, make all your edits, finalize the project, then export an OMF to mix in Logic... then reimport the final audio track? Again... that seems a bit sloppy. Any tips? __________________ Benjamin Allison Check out my new album, We Enter the Dark Room, Alone I'm also giving away up to $100,000 at emphonik.com. http://roestudios.com/

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ekwipt Gear addict Joined: May 2008 Posts: 407	Export omf and mix in logic, but everyone I know does this in protools or nuendo. Logics not very good at this as far as I can tell. Soudtrack pro was more designed for this in mind, hopefully future updates pull soundtrack and logic into one neat program __________________

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Fajita Lives for gear Joined: Oct 2002 Location: Miami, FL Posts: 666	Avid Media Composer now has RTAS plug-in support, but is still only frame accurate. Can you do Sample Accurate audio in a Video editing program? Vegas perhaps? __________________ Ray Trujillo Senior Audio Engineer Discovery Channel Latin America/US Hispanic MTP&O Miami, FL

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api2500 Lives for gear Joined: May 2010 Location: London Posts: 3,008	The few times I have done it, I've edited the video fully, colour and etc then export it into OMF and mix in Logic. Last time, the song was complete, so I edited it to the song so everything was frame accurate, then I exported it into logic and then stretched the audio till that was accurate too. I'd like to stress I'm not a Post Pro guy. __________________ MacBook Pro 15" 2.2Ghz i7 Quad Core Abbey Road Complete \| Crysonic Complete \| Native Instrument's Massive \| Sonnox Complete Waves Studio Classics \| Waves EK Tapes, Tubes and Transformers \| Waves Native Power Pack Mbox 3 Pro \| Korg Wavestation AD \| Novation Nocturn 25 \| Bryston 4B \| Yamaha NS10M

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