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After Effects and Final Cut Suite integration
Hi folks — I remember reading when the Final Cut 5 Suite came out that Apple had included some integration with After Effects as a concession to AE’s dominance in the compositing industry. However, this was before I started using AE, so I never tested it out, and I can’t find a reference to exactly what the feature is and how it works in either app’s documentation. As I remember, it was something along the lines of being able to import an AE composition directly into an FCS app, which could render it natively, allowing your later changes to the comp to be rolled in to the Apple app without the intermediate steps of rendering and re-importing the footage. The Apple app in question was almost certainly either FCP or Motion, but I wasn’t able to accomplish anything along those lines in FCP. Am I totally off base here, or does one of these apps have the sort of functionality I’m thinking about? (I may have gotten it backwards as well — maybe it’s possible to import a motion project into AE?)
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I’m not an FCP user, but I am aware of some of the methods used to go between AE and FCP and/or Motion.
1. The Automatic Duck plug-in. Done and done. AutomaticDuck.com
2. You can import a Motion project into AE if you tell AE it’s a QuickTime file. Use File > Import As…, select the file, and choose QuickTime Movie as the file type. In my experience, the playback results were not optimal. -
Well, I can’t afford Automatic Duck. I remember a year or two ago (before I started using AE in earnest) they had a free version of their FCP-to-AE export tool — I even still have a copy of it — but it doesn’t work with FCP5, and they seem to have discontinued it, frustratingly enough. What’s a poor, enthusiastic hobbyist to do
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