Foolcut – FCPx to AE AppleScript.

[Tapio Haaja]

Wow, this is very interesting. Tried with simple cuts and seem to work!

Best
Tapio Haaja

On-Air Promotion Producer
https://avseikkailuja.blogspot.com/

[Jeremy Garchow]

Supposedly works with connected/secondaries as well!

[Ben Scott]

this is the best thing I have heard on FCPX for quite some time

this proves there is going to be a massive developer community around workflow

no API and a guy who says he isnt a full time programmer has knocked this together

think we have some nice API goodies on the run up to christmas

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Ben Scott] “this is the best thing I have heard on FCPX for quite some time”

Not bad, right?

Didn’t get a chance to test this today, hopefully tomorrow.

[Mikael Lubtchansky]

Thanks guys for your comments 🙂

I’m the author of this app and I’m open to any question or suggestion you may have.

I will add a demo video on the website to show it action today… and I’m working on exporting the audio in AE as it was already requested by someone

Best

Mikael

foolcut_AE – FCPX to AE conform tool : https://foolcolor.net/foolcut

[Andreas Kiel]

Looks pretty cool.
I tried with a simple sequence and it seems to work.

Andreas

Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools

[Geert Van den berg]

I tried throwing the app on the script library window in the applescript script editor application, FCPX is not refused, so I already thought it might be scriptable, however there is no library yet.

Mikael if I may ask and without disclosing any of your code, how do you go about interfacing with FCPX, are you doing everything via AppleScript? Did you use common AppleScript terms to find out the synthax that works?

[Mikael Lubtchansky]

Hi

Altho my app is an applescript (with over 2000 lines of code) it is not using any applescript command to control FCPX in any way.

The project data is simply read from the system and the applescript code is used to parse all the data and make the correct javascript code to reimport everything in AfterEffects.

check out the website I’ve added a list of all features and know issues or give the demo a try.

Thanks

Mikael

foolcut_AE – FCPX to AE conform tool : https://foolcolor.net/foolcut

[Geert Van den berg]

So you’re parsing the SQlite files of the project and events? (Yeah, I am fishing for more info! ;-))

2000 lines of applescript code?! Impressive!

I don’t have any need for your app yet, because I don’t use AE, but I might in the near future.

It’s good to see that there are possibilities with FCPX!

[Eddie Torre]

Awesome idea.

I actually skipped the dynamic linking of the comp. I exported out of After Effects as a Premiere Project, opened that, and then Exported out an XML and back into FCP 7 and it worked.

Alternatively, you could copy and paste some layers from AE to Premiere too.