FPC to AE

[Jeremy Garchow]

http://www.automaticduck.com

This will get you to the holy grail, if you like to drink from goblets…

Jeremy

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“Patience is a virtue”

[Walter Biscardi]

[JeremyG] “www.automaticduck.com

This will get you to the holy grail, if you like to drink from goblets…”

I’ll second that. You want the Pro Importer for AE. This allows you to simply export an XML from FCP and then AE will open up your sequence fully intact.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[Matt Silverman]

Automatic Duck is great if you need to move your timeline (ie. edits, handles, effects, speed changes etc.), but if you just need to get the edited sequence out of FCP and into AE then do a File->Export QuickTime Movie. Leave settings on “Current Settings”, and keep “Recompress all Frames” unchecked. The Make Movie Self Contained checkbox can be on or off… if it is off you will end up with a tiny reference movie pointing to your original media. If you check it on, you will have a slower export since it is copying the media (ie. NOT recompressing it, just copying it) into a new QT file. I highly recommend making it self contained. If you use a reference movie there is a possibility that AE will not be able to open the clips down the road if anything changes in the FCP project (ie. it might look for a render whose name changes). I have been burned hard from this when projects come back down the road… we restore the whole job, but something ends up missing in the ref movie and we can’t get AE to find it’s source.

-Matt

[Bret Williams]

You would simply have to reexport the reference movie to the same name. AE simply looks for the QT, then QT looks for the media links.

I’m with you. Use self contained unless it’s just ungawdly huge.