I've got a client that wants my raw MOV or AVI (Cineform) files to pull into FCP on a MAC to edit.
I'd like to at least clean up the sound a little and perhaps treat whitebalance on a few shots.

The less "RAW" i suppose the less FCP will want to accept these into it's timeline right? But what's a good way to provide the right mix of RAW and somewhat treated files for their FCP editing?

Does this make a little bit of sense?

TIA
Harry

Depending on your version of Cineform, do you have First Light?

As I understand it, you can use First Light to non-destructively add colour corrections and various other effects to the Cineform files. The adjustments are stored as meta-data and applied in 'real-time' to the decoded video being used.

I can't imagine, other than wanting to make all the changes himself, that there is any difference between a 'virgin' Cineform, and one that's been colour corrected and re-encoded. I mean, that's kind of the point of an intermediate codec like Cineform, right?

Welp I don't have first light. Converted the MOV to AVI but the AVI played back by themselves has the sound and video out of sync for some reason...so I'm burning a DVD of selected MOVs (as shot) so he can have the rawest of the raw. Hopefully FCP can handle the MOVs...........

I have the same problem in my office. One guy uses FCP and sometimes we have to trade files for projects and it can be a hassle. I found if I have to give him RAW stuff, but I want to do some correction or something, I bring it into Vegas, do what needs to be done and then render out as uncompressed AVI. Yeah, the files are huge but with an external HDD or a decent network connection he can use those files directly in FCP. (but of course when he gives me uncompressed .mov files in the yuv codec Vegas won't touch it. Sucks.)