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Final Cut and After Effects File is Busy Error
We’ve just overhauled our old Aurora Igniter/Premiere 6.5 suites to 3 new Kona 2/Final Cut suites and in general Im loving the new setup. However, there are a couple of issues that Im running into that have made it difficult for me to adapt to this workflow. In my old setup, I used to run Premiere and After Effects side by side during client attended sessions and bring my rendered AE composites into my timeline and bounce back to After Effects to re-render all my changes. That way it was very easy for me to change the composite to the client’s liking and when I re-rendered my comp from AE with the same file name, my Premiere timeline would be automatically updated. For some reason Im not able to do this with Final Cut and AE and because now whenever both programs are open and I go to re-render a movie that’s already in my Final Cut sequence, I get a quicktime “file is busy” error. I’ve come up with a few work arounds, but each adds a lot of extra steps to the process and I’m hoping there’s a way to get my workflow identical to the way I used to have it. Does anyone know of a fix to this problem? It’s very annoying to not be able to keep both apps open at the same time and re-render to the same file names. Any info is greatly appreciated. Thanks so much.
– Mike
Dual 2.5, 10.3.8, 2 GB RAM, Kona 2, Quicktime 6.5.2
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If you don’t use the exact same file in both places you won’t run intot the busy error… duplicating the file would work, but there’s no round tripping between AE and FCP. Automatic Duck might be helpful though. https://www.automaticduck.com
However there is roundtripping between FCP, Motion, Livetype, and Soundtrack Pro… maybe what you need to do in AE, Motion and/or LiveType could do?
Jerry
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