Migrating to AVID

Hi everyone,

I'm an independent documentary maker. I shot this story for two years and have loads of footage that I've been logging in in FCPX in order to prepare the edit.
My editor is an AVID freak and not ready to move in FCPX.
Is there a software, utility or plug in that allows to transform the FCPX library int an AVID project beyond a single timeline ?
Thanks for your responses, highly needed.
Regards
Sylvia

SYLVIA C wrote: ....I shot this story for two years and have loads of footage that I've been logging in in FCPX in order to prepare the edit...My editor is an AVID freak and not ready to move in FCPX....Is there a software, utility or plug in that allows to transform the FCPX library into an AVID project beyond a single timeline ?...

The problem is Avid has no way to represent range-based favorites, rejects and keywords. However you can extract that information using FindrCat and query it from the Mac Finder: intelligentassistance.com/findrcat.html

The FCPX event data (favorites, rejects, keywords, etc) can be extracted to a spreadsheet using Producer's Best Friend: www.fcp.co/final-cut-pro/news/1210-expor...oducer-s-best-friend

Had you used an Excel spreadsheet to log this information the situation would be similar. I don't know how that could be imported to Avid. The ideal situation would be editing software which is integrated with a database -- wait, we have that and it's called FCPX

The Avid editor will have to plow through an Excel spreadsheet or maybe use FindrCat to query the exported FCPX media you've tagged. This will be slow and tedious but he/she is probably used to that.

Another alternative would be set up FCPX on a laptop or other machine beside the Avid editor, and they could query it in FCPX then look up the filenames and time offsets in Avid. It's actually easier to find material they want using the FCPX skimmer and other query tools. The editing would still be done in Avid but FCPX would be used to find the clips and ranges within clips.

That is a very simple honest way to respond and I had come to the same conclusions minus the great idea of laptop assistant!!!
THOUSAND THANKS, I NEEDED TO ENCOURAGE ME TO GO ON LOGGING ALL THESE HOURS OF FILM