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Move Projects from FCP to AE Seamlessly (and Free!)

Here’s how the process works:

1. Download and install the After Effects scripts from here.
2. Launch After Effects and Final Cut Pro.
3. Open a Final Cut Pro project with media you want to exchange.
4. Select one sequence in the Browser.
5. Choose File > Export > XML. Choose XML Level 4.


6. Target a location and click OK.
7. Swith to After Effects and choose File > Scripts and select the newly loaded script (PI_FCP2AE.jsxbin).
8. Navigate to the XML file you created in step 5 and click Open. The footage and a new composition are created in After Effects.
9. Explore the composition and check the results.

Enjoy… 

Also, be sure to check out the new book, Video Made on a Mac.  More than 400 pages and 5.5 hours of video on Production and Postproduction Using Apple Final Cut Studio and Adobe Creative Suite.

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Not if you have FCP 7 installed. It seems to break functionality.

Posted by Richard Harrington  on  08/01  at  09:22 PM

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