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Capturing footage
Can u capture footage right in to AE or no? Sometimes its just a hassle to capture it in Final Cut, then export it out, and then import into AE. Besides, I feel like I may be degrading the vid quality by exporting to a QT movie from Final Cut. I started just doing it with no compression at all and using the current size for default. Is this okay? Thanks all
Bones
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You can’t capture with AE, and the way you are working is how most people do it. You are right to be concerned about the quality loss of exporting to AE, then rendering from AE and bringing that file BACK into FCP. That’s a lot of pixel-trashing, and while using a 10-bit codec (like Blackmagic 10-bit) for these transfers/renders will help to minimize quality loss, you pay for it in hard drive space, heavy files taking longer to work with etc. etc.
There is an After Effects plugin from Automatic Duck called Pro Import AE that allows you to import your entire FCP project file into After Effects. It uses the original source footage like FCP does, and basically recreates your FCP edit on the After Effects timeline, including fades, dissolves and most effects. This way you eliminate that render from FCP, and can finish projects in After Effects.
https://www.automaticduck.com/products/piae/index.php
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Much appreciated guys. Thanks
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