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Plugin for After Effects
Anybody know where to find that plugin where you can import Final Cut projects into After effects? Is it any good? I have no idea how it works. I forget the name of it.
Im a bit annoyed at how I have to capture footage in Final Cut, export it out with no compression,(leaving me with a humongous file), and then importing it into AE for effects, only to export it again with no compression so i can to throw it into the timeline for editing in Final Cut. Is this the best way to workflow this whole thing? It can get tedious for certain things wouldnt you agree?
Bones
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[BonesOne4] “Anybody know where to find that plugin where you can import Final Cut projects into After effects? Is it any good? I have no idea how it works. I forget the name of it. “
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[BonesOne4] “Im a bit annoyed at how I have to capture footage in Final Cut, export it out with no compression,(leaving me with a humongous file), and then importing it into AE for effects, only to export it again with no compression so i can to throw it into the timeline for editing in Final Cut. Is this the best way to workflow this whole thing? It can get tedious for certain things wouldnt you agree?”
Are you exporting the file from FCP because you want the edits that you made in FCP, or are you just bringing in footage to assemble in AE? If it’s the first, what you’re doing is a good workflow, but if you haven’t done very much in FCP (dissolves, filters) you might just export it as whatever file format you were working in. Also, a exporting it as a reference movie might be worth looking into (though it drives me crazy to use reference movies).
-Russ
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Hey Russ thanks for the suggestions. What I have been doing is capturing my video footage into FCP, then setting my in and out points. Drag that into the FCP timeline and export the clip out with no compression and using the current size. From there, I launch AE and import that clip and then add the effects, color corrections, levels, whatever else I want to do with it. When Im done working with it in AE, Ill export it again with no compression at current size. Then re import into FCP in order to be edited and cut up. So basically….what should I do here??? Should I just focus on editing a whole sequence or scene at once time and then worry about AE later? because as you can see, Ive been doing shot by shot. One at a time. Thanks
Bones
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I edit an entire show before I start the finishing color/graphics usually. It’s up to you if you want to go shot by shot or by a finished sequence. Different shows require different things.
I wouldn’t bother exporting the file from FCP as uncompressed movie. The file isn’t going to look any better. Just send the file out in the native codec that you’re editing (unless you’re going to do an online edit later). You can save some space that way.
-Russ
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Hey Russ can u explain this a little further in detail?
” Just send the file out in the native codec that you’re editing (unless you’re going to do an online edit later). You can save some space that way.”
Not sure what you mean by exporting in the native codec.
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And why on’t you just do everything in FC? To send things to AE to be CC and them back to FC I don’t think is a good workflow. You go fro YCrCb to RGB and them probably back to YCrCb. You will never know how your movie will end-up looking. I don’t know what kind of footage are you using, but even if you are working with high quality 10b uncompress, my advice is to try to make as less Rendering-Compression_Exporting as posible. If you can do everything at once, the best. And try to change color space as long as you can.
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[BonesOne4] “Not sure what you mean by exporting in the native codec.”
Whatever you captured the video as. If you captured as DVCPROHD, export it using current settings. The video isn’t going to get any better quality by exporting it 10-bit uncompressed for After Effects.
-Russ
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Rafael makes some good points. If I were you I’d try to fine some tools in FCP for Color Correction (like Colorista or Apple’s Color). But sometimes you need to go into AE for other reasons (serious effects that I don’t trust FCP to do).
-Russ
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Russ,
As you says there are many things that can not be done in FC so the only solution is to work in AE using a Video-scope and a external monitor.
In the beguining FC renders just in RGB. I just wonder why applications like AE or Shake can not work in YUV.
Cheers,
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[rafalaos] “I just wonder why applications like AE or Shake can not work in YUV. “
At least with the new versions you can control the gamma of the clips so they interpret right.
It does seem a little silly the it’s taken how many years to even get that?
-Russ
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