Media Copy is a media management tool that takes an XML, FCPXML, AAF and a number of Avid options (and Avid project or bin) of an edit sequence and copies the media used in that sequence to a selected destination. Media Copy ($99) has also been updated with this rebirth of Automatic Duck. Like most AE timelines, it looks way more complex than it actually is. Here is that timeline translated in After Effects via Automatic Duck Ximport AE. It’s a very impressive list that includes not just built-in effects but this party tools as well.Ībove is a simple corporate edit that consists of some talking heads, broll, some motion graphics and audio. The full list is on the Red Giant site and you really have to dig into that list to see how much stuff will translate. ![]() There is an extensive list of things that will translate from FCPX to After Effects via Ximport AE. You can also exclude certain volumes from a media search in the Footage and Media Tab. That can help with the organization right out of the FCPX timeline. One handy option is to take clips that are in an FCPX Secondary Storyline and have them import into an AE Precomp. ![]() Users of the old Automatic Duck Pro Imports will recognize the option to have layers step up or down in the After Effects composition. When that import box pops up those users of the old Auto Duck tools will see a familiar site as the old Automatic Duck logo is there in the lower left welcoming your XML. After installing Ximport AE you have that as an import option in After Effects. Operation is simple, first export an XML from your Final Cut Pro X timeline/edit/project. After all, that’s what brought on the original idea for Auto Duck, his own needs. Wes has been dabbling with FCPX for awhile now so I’m not surprised he would want to get his edits into After Effects. Wes worked as a product manager for Adobe Prelude before leaving the company a few years later. Wes Plate, one of the brains behind Automatic Duck, went to work for Adobe in 2011 as the Auto Duck technology was integrated into After Effects. While it’s no surprise to readers of this blog (we mentioned this might be coming after it was outed at the FCPX Creative Summit) it might be a surprise to those that don’t follow post-production news too closely. I think the big surprise here is Ximport AE ($199). ![]() Automatic Duck will now help get from FCPX to After Effects. That doesn’t matter for many as a lot of FCPX editors still use After Effects anyway. In the world of Final Cut Pro X Apple has gave us a new (and very affordable) Motion application for effects and motion graphics though they haven’t given an easy path to get an edit (or even a single clip) from FCPX to Motion. DaVinci Resolve handles a lot of other translations and Avid Media Composer is, well … still doing what Avid does. Many folks have moved on from FCP7 and Adobe has built the FCP7 XML into Premiere Pro meaning you can move freely in and out of PPro. The Auto Duck tools for Final Cut Pro 7 aren’t really needed anymore. We now live in a time when translation between the Adobe apps is built in. ![]() It was no surprise these big competing companies didn’t talk to each other and make this translation easier so it took Automatic Duck to handle it. Back in the day, here was a small company with a friendly face that solved the problem of moving from one big company’s media creation software to another company’s media creation software. In 2015 Auto Duck returns via Red Giant Software with an updated Media Copy and Automatic Duck Ximport AE, a way to get Final Cut Pro X project into After Effects.Īutomatic Duck holds a special place in many an editor’s heart. In 2011 Auto Duck moved into a partnership with Adobe and the translation tools went away. Automatic Duck was doing their translation thing long before Dynamic Link was but a glimmer in Adobe’s eye. Later on The Duck help move from one editing and finishing system to another. The Duck as it was often called provided many an editor with a path from their NLE of choice into Adobe After Effects. If you’ve been working in this business for awhile you’ll most likely have fond memories of Automatic Duck.
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