OT (RT): It's here!!! FCP X to After Effects!

Stephen Hawking explains how to import an edit from FCP X into AE. And then, for some reason, piano. /via@5tu









www.strypesinpost.com

...and it ain't FREE. "Minimum donation" is $89.00 USD. Is anyone actually cutting RED in FCP X at this point?

When life gives you dilemmas...make dilemmanade.

Oh wow. I didn't see the website... It's real!



www.strypesinpost.com

yeah, i thought it was a joke when i first saw it.
but it's real:
[foolcolor.net]

$90 is a lot cheaper than AutoDuck.
i don't remember the price on the Boris FCP to AE tool.

and get this:
someone on the cow reported: " 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."

so this guy had sone what others have said is impossible.
cool


nick

I guess Apple may have released the XML SDK. The one thing which FCP has over many other NLEs is that a lot of 3rd party developers are doing a lot of stuff for it. I'm not a programmer, but track height shouldn't pose that much of a problem- eg. if height=1, track 1; if height=2, track 2, etc.. Problem is getting a sequence (and project) into FCP X. You would probably lose your log notes, your bins may become events, but the layers... It isn't so much that the clip connections are in the editors heads, but the lack of tracks make it hard to import a track based edit into FCP X. Can't it be possible to import them layer by layer? Like add clip 2 on track 2 to secondary storyline at a specified timecode? (of course, you can't change the timecode in FCP X right now, which may be a problem for now).



www.strypesinpost.com

They've not publicly released the SDK to developers yet, but of course that doesn't mean they haven't privately done so for a chosen few as they did for Wes (Automatic Duck) .. bodes well that something useful is on the way tho ...

No, the SDK has not been released publicly.

Michael Horton
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It's an Applescript.

Jeremy G. over on the cow had the great idea that you could rely on dynamic linking to get an XML.

I tried it out using a tweak to his workflow.

FCP X>After Effects> Export a Premiere Project> Export an XML>Import XML into Final Cut 7

It worked. Proof of concept, but not sure if I'd want to rely on it heavily on a day to day basis.

so this guy had sone what others have said is impossible.
cool

nick

Going from FCP X to After Effects? I don't know anyone who said that was impossible.

As for Automatic Duck, I've been saying for a while the easy way to go from FCP 7 to After Effects is XML from FCP 7 to Premiere Pro and then open that Premiere Pro project in AE. That brings your entire FCP 7 timeline into After Effects ready to go.

If you own After Effects you most likely own Premiere Pro as part of a bundle.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
biscardicreative.com

walterbiscardi Wrote:
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> If you own After Effects you most likely own
> Premiere Pro as part of a bundle.

And now it will be very easy for Premiere Pro users to move back to FCPX when it comes of age.

craig seeman Wrote:
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> walterbiscardi Wrote:
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> > If you own After Effects you most likely own
> > Premiere Pro as part of a bundle.
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> And now it will be very easy for Premiere Pro
> users to move back to FCPX when it comes of age.

Yeah, that will be a while for me........

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
biscardicreative.com

Cool trick, but why not just edit in PPro CS5.5 in the first place?

Could be useful in a hand-off situation, although I've yet to see anything from X yet from any of our clients. Au contraire. Seems to be a big migration going on to PPro and MC.

ClayC Wrote:
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> Cool trick, but why not just edit in PPro CS5.5 in
> the first place?
>
> Could be useful in a hand-off situation, although
> I've yet to see anything from X yet from any of
> our clients. Au contraire. Seems to be a big
> migration going on to PPro and MC.

And now there's this.... Adobe buy IRIDAS.

[www.businesswire.com]

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
biscardicreative.com

walterbiscardi Wrote:
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> Yeah, that will be a while for me........

It will have to be for many facilities. I suspect Apple's main concern is keeping people on Mac for the meantime. That's actually a bigger problem. MacPros are falling behind equivalent priced Windows boxes. They can't match Premiere with CUDA. FCPX is major fast but missing basic functions for any facility and collaborative workflow. Apple is probably waiting for new Intel chips as well as making major design changes in the MacPro (I have a personal hunch where they're going with that).

Apple has to make FCPX a compelling low cost switch and the new Macs must be facility friendly. I think that will happen but once a facility moves to Windows it'll be a few years before they can consider moving back.

Apple's release of FCPX has truly be the nadir of bad timing combined with bad marketing. Regardless of the feature set in FCPX, the whole thing couldn't have been a more supreme case of bad management. As you know I think FCPX holds promise but management has sent a rough transition over a cliff without a parachute or a net.

The best Apple can hope for is release a timeline which will delay the move away from Mac and they've yet to have done that. It's not only FCPX at this point, it's the MacPro as well.

And back ...

walterbiscardi Wrote:
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> ClayC Wrote:
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> > Cool trick, but why not just edit in PPro CS5.5
> in
> > the first place?
> >
> > Could be useful in a hand-off situation,
> although
> > I've yet to see anything from X yet from any of
> > our clients. Au contraire. Seems to be a big
> > migration going on to PPro and MC.
>
> And now there's this.... Adobe buy IRIDAS.
>
> [www.businesswire.com]
> 77/en/Adobe-Acquires-IRIDAS-Technology

This! ^^