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Assembling clips, even trimming them in iMovie is transferable to Final Cut. By exporting a XML from iMovie, and opening it in Final Cut, will give you an updated sequence that will have the same edits. This is a great tool for a producer to rough in a project, and then bring in a senior editor with a Final Cut system to finalize the project.



If you are doing serious professional editing, you will be using Final Cut. The fact that iMovie integrates with Final Cut is all the more reason to make sure if you are using Final Cut, that you are using it effectively. GeniusDV training is what separates you from everyone else.

In Final Cut -- in a lot of different video applications, for that matter -- you may have wondered about Import/Export functions based on XML.  In fact, Apple made a big deal about Final Cut's XML Interchange Format when it first released, and for good reason.

As studios and production houses and newsrooms shift to a digital workflow, more and more pieces of the production process have to "talk about" the same footage.  At one broadcast network where we recently conducted training, the entire workflow -- from ingest to scriptwriting, roughing, package editing, promos, and output -- relied on a central media repository. 

Needless to say, that's a whole lot of pieces of software that need to talk to each other -- and making a separate copy of the source media for every step in the process is inefficient (imagine the extra disk space to hold 6 different copies of the same full HD footage for a 24/7 broadcast), not to mention confusing.