• Adobe After Effects

  Final Cut Pro will not import STills rendered from CS4

  Posted by Tim Snider on November 13, 2008 at 9:13 pm

  I’m switching over to AE CS4 and I have run into a small issue while importing stills into Final Cut Pro. It appears every still frame format that I render out will not import into Final Cut Pro v6.0.4. I’ve tried .jpg,.tga,.psd. The only format that I have had success with is .psd Multilayer. When I try to import the stills they are greyed out of the file selection dialogue box. I then switch it to view all filetypes and when I select one of the stills I recieve this error message:

  File Error: 1 file(s) recognized, 0 access denied, 1 unknown.

  When I okay this message it does not import any of the stills that I have selected. I do not have this problem with stills rendered from AE7 only CS4. I’ve also made sure that I’m rendering 8-bit files and I still haven’t had any luck. I can render movies without out problems it only appears to have issues with the still file formats

  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

  Thanks,
  Tim Snider

  Mark Cookman replied 17 years, 4 months ago 4 Members · 5 Replies
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  Aaron Buck

  November 18, 2008 at 6:58 pm

  I’m having similar problems in AE CS4. here’s the scenario importing AE generated stills into fcp 6.04.

  AE save frame as…psd file – fcp will not allow it to import
  AE save frame as…tga file – fcp will not allow it to import
  ae save frame as…png rgb+a – successful
  ae save frame as…tif rgb & rgb+a – successful
  ae save as photoshop layers – successful

  while the tif, png and psd layered files work fine and the alpha channels remaing intact, i am curious as to why it won’t import the composited psd file or targa images.
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  Brian Berneker

  November 18, 2008 at 9:35 pm

  How did you get it to export layered PSD files from the AE timeline? I have a project I’m doing that needs to be exported to PSD layers, but the only way I can do it is one frame at a time… I’m also using CS4
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  Aaron Buck

  November 19, 2008 at 2:20 pm

  wish i had the answer for you, but i was using the save frame as photoshop layers option also which does not allow you to define an in and out segment but simply saves the current frame.

  i took a quick look through the bridge and also checked to see if pshop cs4 might recognize and import an ae project but no luck. i wouldn’t be surprised if one of the folks in the forum couldn’t figure out a bridge or applescript option to automate that process though.
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  Mark Cookman

  January 20, 2009 at 4:17 pm

  Ive been putting up with this bug for a while – real pain.
  Did you find a solution?
  M
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  Mark Cookman

  January 20, 2009 at 4:19 pm

  For got to say – opening and saving in preview fixes the file to FCP’s liking on my system.

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