Apple Color 1.5 - Manual (Page 113)

2 Choose File > Send To > Final Cut Pro.
There are two possible warnings that may come up at this point:
• If you haven’t rendered every shot in Color at this point, you are warned. It’s a good
idea to click No to cancel the operation and render all of your shots prior to sending
the project back to Final Cut Pro.
• If the codec or frame size has been changed, either by you or as a result of rendering
your media to a mastering quality format, you are presented with the option to change
the sequence settings of the sequence being sent. For more information, see
Some
Media Formats Require Rendering to a Different Format .
A new sequence is automatically created within the original Final Cut Pro project from
which the program came. However, if the Final Cut Pro project the program was originally
sent from is unavailable, has been renamed, or has been moved to another location, then
a new Final Cut Pro project will be created to contain the new sequence. Either way, every
clip in the new sequence is automatically linked to the color-corrected media you rendered
out of Color.
Exporting XML for Final Cut Pro Import
Another way of moving a Color project back to Final Cut Pro is to export an XML version
of your Color project.
To export an XML file back to Final Cut Pro for final output
1 Go through the Timeline and choose which grade you want to use for each of the clips
in your project.
Since each shot in your program may have up to four separately rendered versions of
media in the render directory, the rendered media that each shot is linked to in the
exported XML project file is determined by its currently selected grade.
2 Chose File > Export > XML.
3 When the Export XML Options dialog appears, click Browse.
4 Enter a name for the XML file you’re exporting in the File field of the Export XML File
dialog.
5 Choose a location for the file, then click Save.
6 Click OK.
A new XML project file is created, and the clips within are automatically linked to the
media directory specified in the Project Settings tab in the Setup room.
Note: If you haven’t exported rendered media from your Color project yet, the XML file
is linked to the original project media.
113 Chapter 4 Importing and Managing Projects and Media