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Free Automatic Duck .AAF export plug-in not compatible w/After Effects 6.5?
Greetings,
There is a free export/import module for FCP that Automatic Duck produces for Apple that lets you export your time line as an AAF sequence. As most of you know, the AAF sequence can be imported in to After Effects and other programs that support AAF, and all of the cuts are in place exactly where they are in the exported FCP sequence. For those of you who do not know the plug-in can be found at the following address, ” https://images.apple.com/movies/us/downloads/Automatic_Duck_AAF.dmg.sit ”
There is still an issue when importing a FCP produced AAF sequence into After Effects 6.5. Does any one know of a go around or solution to this problem?
I spend extensive time searching the film/video web community to find the answer, to no avail!!! I do not believe I am doing anything out of skew to cause the problem, but I will explain the steps that I am taking. First, I take a sequence in FCP that is CUTS ONLY, and with the sequence (timeline) itself active or selected (and not in the browser window) I go to the “file” menu -> “export” -> “Automatic Duck AAF”. I save the sequence and it is parsed by the plug-in. Then in After Effect 6.5, I import the AAF sequence. Every-time, every way I have tried, I get an error in After effects that says, ” After Effects: AEGF Plugin AAF: Error during parsing: Invalid document structure (5027 12) ” and “Error occurred while creating project”
I really need a solution to this problem, because I have a cut that all green screen and of course is is not consistent. Exporting a QT reference is going to be a pain, so I need to get this working. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you
Roybot
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3 Replies
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This old AAF exporter was not designed to go to After Effects and Adobe did not design their AAF importer to read these files. You may think that AAF is AAF, but it isn’t that simple.
Take a look at Pro Import AE, it will do what you’re trying to do here.
https://www.automaticduck.com/piae/— Wes Plate
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ya but um, the other one is free, and i think that might be the point.
the thing is, id love something like this, but 500 dollers is 1/4 of my 2 month school budget that includes everything from food to film and tapes, to actors etc for film school. i would love that to work, though i know it won’t, to bad we can fudge it, with like another plug in that wouldf then take that aaf and convert it into a readable after effects aaf.
kinda like taking a mini dvi to a dvi converteer and straping that to a mini dvi to svideo converter. also known as “ghetto riging” in us young kid circles
Aaron Zander-Student edditor
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You’re right, the original poster was trying to do something for free. I was replying to explain that no, the free AAF export plug-in and AE are not compatible.
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— Wes Plate
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