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  • Can a FCP Project be loaded into After Effects

    Posted by Blake Porter on March 25, 2007 at 11:14 pm

    I have an edited FCP project. I would love to export this right into After Effects and continue working on it.
    Is this possible? So that After Effects opens the project with all the diferent clips layed out, as created in FCP?
    This would be incredibly awesome!!
    blake

    Walter Biscardi replied 19 years, 1 month ago 7 Members · 9 Replies
  • 9 Replies
  • Shane Ross

    March 25, 2007 at 11:18 pm

    Yes, with the use of Automatic Duck Pro Export for After Effects.

    http://www.automaticduck.com

    Shane

    Littlefrog Post
    http://www.lfhd.net

  • Blake Porter

    March 25, 2007 at 11:27 pm

    Really? Wow. Have you tried this yet? Any problems?

  • Blake Porter

    March 25, 2007 at 11:46 pm

    At $495, Automatic Duck is not an easy buy… Any other ways to import FCP timelines in to After Effects?

  • David Roth weiss

    March 26, 2007 at 12:49 am

    [blakep] “At $495, Automatic Duck is not an easy buy…”

    No one else is doing this presently, so I guess you could say that Wes at Automatic Duck has a monopoly. You can always try to accomplish the same stuff in Motion, but its really not the same as AE.

    DRW

  • Walter Biscardi

    March 26, 2007 at 1:00 am

    [blakep] “At $495, Automatic Duck is not an easy buy.”

    If you’re doing this on a regular basis, it’s not expensive at all. This tool works flawlessly, we’ve used it since it first came out, i think about three years ago.

    Walter Biscardi, Jr.
    https://www.biscardicreative.com
    HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
    HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”

    Read my blog! https://blogs.creativecow.net/WalterBiscardi

  • Arnie Schlissel

    March 26, 2007 at 2:32 am

    [David Roth Weiss] “You can always try to accomplish the same stuff in Motion, but its really not the same as AE.”

    As someone who does a lot of work in Motion, I have to agree. you can do a lot to the same things as AE, you can doe some things AE can’t, but Motion can’t do a bunch of things that AE does, or at least not as well as AE does them.

    OTOH, few things are as easy as lassoing a bunch of clips, right clicking & choosing “Send to Motion”.

    Arnie
    Now in post: Peristroika, a film by Slava Tsukerman
    https://www.arniepix.com/blog

  • Matt Callac

    March 26, 2007 at 3:01 pm

    Walter’s right. For the amount that I use it, the price is well worth it. Not to mention that it works flawlessly. I only wish it would make a quack sound effect when it finishes importing into AE. Since It doesn’t make that sound, I’ll often make clients do it for me.
    -mattyc

  • Peter Dewit

    March 26, 2007 at 9:41 pm

    I am routinely dissapointed in this site’s lack of mooing noises myself

  • Walter Biscardi

    March 26, 2007 at 9:51 pm

    [Mattyc] “Since It doesn’t make that sound, I’ll often make clients do it for me.”

    Brilliant! Of course, I make my clients run the Espresso machine so that’s not bad either. 🙂

    Walter Biscardi, Jr.
    https://www.biscardicreative.com
    HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
    HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”

    Read my blog! https://blogs.creativecow.net/WalterBiscardi

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