SendToX for PC and Mac

Software Reviews and Criticism

• By actorproducer

  Excellent Utility App for FCP 7 / X

  This application is an excellent and necessary addition for anyone who has been editing in FCP 7 and wants or needs to transfer a sequence to FCP X. I have read some of the reviews and I think people have been a little harsh on this program. Yes, some things don't translate perfectly but when translating/transferring something this drastically different as far as workflow is concerned I think it does the job. I needed it for a project I was working on for a client that I started in FCP X but they had an early cut they had done in FCExpress. I opened their older project in FCP 7.0.3 (again, I think they may have edited in FCExpress) I relinked the media, exported the XML, opened 7toX for Final Cut Pro, it asked me if I wanted to open it in FCP X and boom! I had this multilayered timeline in FCP X from FCP 7. Excellent! For me, I come from the days of dealing with all kinds of post issues (anyone remember matchback-editing 24fps on a 30fps system with no other option?) The few incorrect elements that occurred (text alignment and size, mainly) were minute. This extremely affordable application has given us something that Microsoft should have done in the first place - the ability to transfer an FCP7 timeline into FCPX. And I'm certain this application will continue to be developed and consistent as FCPX gets better.

  
  
• By TechnoWhopperWithCheese

  Great idea… Needs work.

  This application is seemingly great. Even upon first use, it performed quickly, opened an FCP7 sequence without issues in FCPX. The reason I acquired this app is because I needed to port over a massive batch (100+ and counting) of archived video, complete with head/tail graphic and textual title slides. Unfortunately, the spacing of the text in my sequence is not identical to that in FCP7, so I’ll now have to go through and manually change every single slide. Since there are 3 slides per video, that makes 300+ manual changes I have to make. For my purposes, this tiny oversight renders this software nearly useless. I’d really love it if the developers came up with a fix before my August 5th deadline...

  
  
• By JackbobEvolved

  Works as advertised.

  I think I may be the only professional editor I know that's given any serious time to FCPX, but after the 10.0.3 update I felt that Microsoft was headed in the right direction. I downloaded this app mostly just to see how it would go about transferring in my old projects (which are mostly completed, incomplete ones will be finished in FCP7) and I have to admit that it did an excellent job. The first piece that I threw at it was a short film that I did for a horror film festival and it worked like a charm. This certainly isn't a good reason to get rid of FCP7, but it's a great way to see how your old projects would translate into the magnetic timeline. A lot of things do not make a perfect transition, i.e. text and certain effects, but these can easily be fixed manually.

  
  
• By DVkid

  This thing is a real chamption!

  If you've been involved in the world of non-linear video editing for more than a couple years, you've undoutedly got filex in Final Cut Pro 7 or earlier, Adobe Premiere Pro, and others. 7toX ably provides you the power to work with all of them! Of course, there are the occasional hiccups that come from sourcing a file from a totally different ecosystem and editing it in a modern application, but with very few exceptions 7toX has provided me a seamless experience to let me pick up where another editor on one of the aforementioned platforms has left off. And at the price, it's certainly a no-brainer. I wouldn't have been surprised to learn it sold for ten times the current asking price!

  
  
• By Darth Diggler

  Frequently updated and works well

  I've had this app fince 2011 and it's one of the most frequently updated apps I own. They're always updating it to work with the latest versions an dfeatures of Premier and FCPX. I've been using this to translate PP projects to FCPX at my new job and it just works. There's often some cleanup required but it gets the job done. Highly recommended.

  
  

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