Feature film edited in Final Cut Pro 7 and Adobe Premiere Pro CC

Today sees the premiere of ‘Sharknado 2: The Second One.’ Apart from the obvious high quality of the movie, there’s an interesting post production story. The two editors who worked on the film used different editing applications.

Ana Florit worked in Final Cut Pro 7, Vashi Nedomansky used Adobe Premiere Pro CC.

Scott Simmons asked:

How did you integrate Premiere Pro into a traditional Final Cut Pro 7 workflow?
So here’s how I seamlessly integrated Premiere Pro CC into a FCP7 workflow. 1. Opened the FCP7 Sharknado 2 project in my studio. 2. Relinked to the clone drive and made all assets active in FCP7. 3. Exported XML from FCP7. 4. Imported XML into Premiere Pro CC. 5. Relinked footage inside Premiere Pro CC. 6. Done.

As well as Scott’s article on the post process, also read Randi Altman’s article on what Vashi learnt about editing comedy from David Zucker:

“Never hang on a reaction too long…” Zucker taught him. “If you milk it, it loses its funny,” Nedomansky explains. “You have to cut away at the right moment, see the reaction to the dialog or action and then come back for more of the original reaction. If you linger, it’s death.”

I wonder if Final Cut Pro X XML will be the next interchange format for post production?

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