Re: Final Cut Pro with Avid Unity

FCP will connect to the Unity server, but will only see it as a drive. You can probably figure out a method to convert the Avid media in some way that FCP will read it, but it won't be efficient, and it will probably be hard to find the clips you want, as Avid organises it's media very differently to FCP, it's not going to be easy to locate a clip from simply browsing the file system.

I'm going to third or fourth the 'use Avid' suggestion. In the scenario you describe it's going to be much much more efficient for you. Without knowing the specifics of your work, there's not really anything in FCP that's inherantly better for promos than in Media Composer. We produce dozens of on-air promos every week with Avid Xpress Pro and Media Composer.

However I will add this - I've had remarkable sucess in taking a AAF from Avid (with embedded media) and importing it into FCP with the media attached.