Export Quicktime from FCP to use Color Finesse in AE 6.5?

[David Roth weiss]

[E Jones] “I’m not a pro user”

A question for you. If you’re not a professional, why the heck do you need to spend $575 for an outboard color corrector?

As far as exporting a QT file from FCP and working on in After Effects, thats no big deal.

DRW

[Ephraim Jones]

The full version of Color Finesse comes packaged with AE Pro 6.5 which I purchased in 2004. I made my way through two of the Trish Meyer books, so I have a pretty good basic understanding of working with the program. I found that using Motion and FCP was better for me and the learning curve for Motion is not quite as steep as AE. I don’t use AE any more, but the Color Finesse plugin would certainly be a benefit to use without having to buy the FCP version, hence my question. When I say I’m not a pro, I mean I don’t do work for hire, I work primarily on my own projects for small, limited distribution. Even though I’m not a pro, I like my output to be as high quality as possible.

Thanks for your help!

[Wes Plate]

You can certainly export a QuickTime movie from FCP then import that into AE for color correction in CF. The down-side is that your entire show will appear in AE as one layer. If you used Pro Import AE to get from FCP to AE then each clip would be a separate layer in AE, a real nice thing when you’re color correcting.

— Wes Plate
Automatic Duck

[Chris Tomberlin]

I can certainly echo what Wes is saying here. I use automatic duck all the time to get timelines from FCP to AE for color correction in CF. I used QT reference files a long time ago and would NEVER go back. It will work, but it will get very messy on anything other than a really short program.

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