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Moving Footage From Final Cut Pro to After Effects

Using Premiere Pro to Import XML

A lot of folks have taken the plunge and purchased a Creative Suite bundle from Adobe.  If you have Premiere Pro CS4 installed on your system, you can get a clean handoff to After Effects by taking a jump to your left and then a step to the right. You can choose to send a full sequence (or just part) to Premiere Pro and then bring those clips into After Effects.

1. Create an XML file for the desired media as previously described.
2. Launch Premiere Pro and create a new project that most closely matches the video format you’ve been using.
3. In Premiere Pro, choose File > Import.
4. Navigate to the XML file you created and click Import. Premiere Pro creates a sequence and adds the media and a report to the project (Figure 11.13).

If you need to make any touch up edits go ahead. To make the process easier, choose Edit > Keyboard Customization. Choose Shortcuts for Final Cut Pro from the Set menu and click OK.

Using Dynamic Link

One way you can move from Premiere Pro to After Effects is with Dynamic Link. The principal goal with this method is to minimize time lost from rendering or exporting.

In After Effects choose File > Adobe Dynamic Link > Import Premiere Pro Sequence to use a sequence as a single layer in your After Effects composition without having to render or export.

If you make any changes in Premiere Pro, they will be automatically reflected in your After Effects comps. With Dynamic Link you can import a single sequence as a clip into After Effects. Changes to the clip in Premiere Pro are automatically updated in After Effects.This is useful if you want to move an edited piece across in its entirety without making frequent changes.

If you need to import a whole project, you can do that too. In After Effects choose File > Import >Adobe Premiere Pro Project to bring in an entire collection of footage, bins, and sequences. All the media (with handles) is now imported into the After Effects project. This works well as you can import multiple Final Cut Pro XML files into one Premiere Pro project.

Using Copy and Paste

You can also move media from Premiere to After Effects with just your computer’s clipboard. This method relies upon a lot of “under the hood” integration between Premiere Pro and After Effects.

1. Check your imported sequence to make sure all the clips are present.
2. Click in the Project panel to select the sequence you want to copy.
3. Press Command+C or choose Edit > Copy.
4. Switch to After Effects and create a new project (or select an existing project).
5. Click in the Project panel.
6. Press Command+V (Edit > Paste) to add the sequence.  This converts the selected sequence into an After Effects composition. The associated media files are imported into your After Effects project. You can press U to see all the keyframes in the Timeline.
7. Choose File > Save and capture the new project.

We found that most features translated cleanly (including some time remapping). However, not all opacity keyframes came across correctly (but motion ones did). Dissolves also did not translate in our tests.

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I know my following sentences might sound weird but I badly need a solution for this.
When I export tga/tiff seq from fcp for after effects, AE shows wrong gamma of the given source
while fcp shows the correct gamma on any of its other softwares like motion or livetype and fcp itself.

Basically I have to give shots ( TGA/TIFF) to my CG TEAM for graphics from Discreet smoke bcoz the gamma what smoke exports is truly correct for AE

I know I can shift my gamma before exorting from fcp using gamma correction filter which still doesn’t give me accurate gamma (as i type 1.2 in gamma correction filter) but

technically its is 1.22 gamma according to Discreet Smoke (by checking export option for mov)

This 1.22 gamma and 0.88 gamma is the difference in which Smoke and FCP export

There are ok to use on their platform itself but not ok to mix up exports in eachothers, there are tricks in fcp and smoke to change the gamma while importing movs or tga by using

lut but that is not the solution iam looking for

Once again I start I want an export from fcp image seq TGA/TIFF to be gamma 1.22 to be correctly readable on Adobe AE and Discreet smoke.

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