• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Illustrator file into final cut

  Posted by Lincoln Waldron on September 6, 2007 at 9:27 am

  Was trying to bring a file From illustrator into final cut.
  I tried various formats, and not sure how to do it?

  Mikebaer77 replied 18 years, 8 months ago 5 Members · 4 Replies
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  Peter Wiggins

  September 6, 2007 at 11:21 am

  Save as a PDF then import via Motion

  Peter
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  Wilhelm Beck

  September 7, 2007 at 7:50 pm

  Why not use .png?

  You
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  Carl Sundermann

  September 12, 2007 at 4:16 pm

  Just tried the png idea. No luck. FCP will not import that.

  I’m trying to do the same thing… Trying to import something done in illustrator into FCP with the alpha channel. I’ve gotten around this in the past by opening the file in Photoshop, then saving in psd format, and that does keep the right alpha (vs just saving as a psd from illustrator). But I can’t figure out how to just save from illustrator into a format FCP will take (with the proper alpha).

  Any ideas?
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  Mikebaer77

  September 21, 2007 at 12:53 pm

  Maybe this is a stupid idea, but are you sure the image is in RGB and not CMYK?

  Also, I had a problem a year ago where the FCP project file was corrupt and it absolutely would not import an AI file. So, I exported the FCP to an XML, reopened, and could then import the AI file.

  Good luck.

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