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  • EDL from FCP -> AE CS3

    Posted by Karim Cherif on June 21, 2008 at 12:15 pm

    Hey People
    We shot some stuff in front of greenscreen and I did the edit in FCP. So now I want to take all this in AE and do some keying. I could render it out first through FCP and bring into AE, but I thought it is best to export an EDL and import it into AE.

    But AE doesn’t do this. 🙁

    Is there a workaround for this?
    Please let me know.

    Thanks.

    Jim Lefevre replied 16 years ago 4 Members · 5 Replies
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  • Lars Bunch

    June 21, 2008 at 1:21 pm

    Hi,

    Automatic Duck does a very good job of translating the timeline.

    https://www.automaticduck.com/products/

    I just started using it last week and I am quite happy with the results. It is a bit pricy, but considering it took a few seconds to do what took me a couple hours to do previously, what you save in time makes up for thee cost.

    I believe if you want to translate the AE timeline back to FCP, you would need to buy another version of Automatic Duck so if you need a great deal of flexibility, it can be quite costly, but again, the speed gain may be worth the cost.

    Hope this helps,

    Lars

  • Karim Cherif

    June 21, 2008 at 1:38 pm

    ok thanks for that.
    Yikes… It is pricy. Perhaps someone has an alternative, before I need to buy this.

    Karim Cherif
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    United 135

  • Karim Cherif

    June 21, 2008 at 4:09 pm

    In Case anyone wants to know later on… I found this script that does what I wanted. And it is free. You just need to export XML from FCP.

    And install this script in the AE\Scripts folder:
    https://www.popcornisland.com/downloads

    Hope this helps you guys.

  • Chris Liddell

    December 1, 2009 at 2:29 am

    Wow… thanks for the script heads up Karim… worked a charm… and FREE !!!

    And to think I was just about to buy the Automatic Duck AE IMPORT plug… (no offense Wes… you know I’ve love your FCP PRO EXPORT plug)

    Thanks to the COW too of course…. where would we be without our ducks n cows…?!?!?!

  • Jim Lefevre

    April 19, 2010 at 12:07 pm

    argh! This looked like the perfect answer to exactly the same question i was about to ask except of course Popcorn Island have either a temporary problem with their page or they’ve taken it down.

    Pah!

    I don’t suppose you would know of another link?

    http://www.jimlefevre.com

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