FCP X Motion and After Effects workflow

[Eugeny Korkhin]

I know, Jeremy.
Happy new year!

[James Sullivan]

I have used clip exporter but I think that Jeremy is correct in the most up to date support for Xto7 being a good thing. I used clip exporter to transfer a green screen edit to AE for finishing and ended up with a few bugs in the timeline. Specifically little 1 or 2 frame gaps at random places in the timeline. (Final cut PRo X 10.09)

I like the workflow that Clip exporter brings to final cut but I guess the new final cut XML is still a moving target. I hope that AE will add a direct import of Final Cut Xml like we had with Automatic duck. I do not want to have to round trip through Premiere to add another layer of troubleshooting conform issues or keep a full install of Final cut Legacy just to get to AE and back.

I do not use Motion nor intend to. AE is my jam and the more interoperable our software lives become the better. I have never used Final cut as a compositor/motion graphics box. I expect it to edit and edit well. I will use tools and plugins in other software that do what they do better. I want final cut to be a stable NLE that plays back video in real time the way god intended. It should handle the organization and culling of the massive amounts of video imported and that is it. Then it should be able to export this work for further polish in other software.

I am too young to be this much of a curmudgeon!

James