FCPToAE going (mostly) CS3 Only
Just a quick heads up that I’ve decided to focus my efforts on FCPToAE and related tools to the CS3 Suite only. With a strong subset of ECMA-357 (E4X) (pdf link) parsing in Extendscript 2, it doesn’t make a lot of sense to keep inventing workarounds to FCP-XML parsing. I do plan on incorporating bug fixes to the scripting side of the equation to the AE 7 app, so it’ll stay feature compliant to the current state, but I won’t be updating new features.
This will definitely make things a lot easier to develop tools, and it opens up a whole new slew of possibilites for Web 2.0 mashup tools and explorations when combined with After Effects Socket or new HttpConnection support. kuler explorer anyone? If you’re a scripter, you owe it to yourself to check out the ExtendScript Toolkit (ESTK) 2.0 there are a lot of features that sort of “hide” in Extendscript that aren’t obvious in the After Effects CS3 scripting guide(pdf link).
aefreemart : FCPToAE going (mostly) CS3 Only said,
September 27, 2007 at 10:36 pm
[...] Bradshaw’s blog, Creative Workflow Hacks, has a script that he’s been working on called FCPToAE to help users move between Final Cut [...]
Fritch said,
November 2, 2007 at 3:16 pm
Hi Dale - I’ve been using FCPtoAE to move simple edits from FCP to AE 7 and found it quite useful. Usually when the beta expires, i just download the new version from your site - unfortunately, it expired today and the new version I downloaded says it’s already expired. Do I need to upgrade to CS3 to keep up with progress? The present version of FCPtoAE was doing just what I needed, so I’d love to just be able to keep using it for a bit - are you going to re-release the beta for that version again? Thx
Dale said,
November 2, 2007 at 3:35 pm
Doh! Sorry about that. I’ve just been really busy, and missed my automated build. The new version should be up now.
Dale
shams dean said,
November 18, 2007 at 3:19 am
hi!!! i have a big problemme i work in a small production in france whit rush from hvx 200 from panasonic the hdvcpro it’s open in adobe premiere but notin after effect please help me how can i do ? shams_dean@hotmail.com this is my mail
Ross Gerbasi said,
December 18, 2007 at 5:10 pm
Dale,
My name is Ross and I work with a group of freelancer’s under the name popcorn island. We also do a lot of porting between FC and AE and I have also been working on a script to do some magic. Just posted it up a couple days ago.
http://www.popcornisland.com/downloads
Maybe we can help each other out here? Make something super frickin ultra amazing? Hooray for ECMA.
-ross
Dale said,
December 18, 2007 at 5:21 pm
Hey Ross,
I”m glad to hear other folks are tackling some of the same workflow problems. It’s definitely good to have a critical mass of people working on tools and tricks. Give me a shout at dale(at)creative-workflow-hacks[dot]com and let’s see if we can do some collaboration.
Best,
Dale
Lu Nelson said,
February 26, 2008 at 11:09 am
Hi Dale,
just tried that AE CS3 version with keyframe support — the values come through but, two things:
1. the pictures I had in the timeline (psd files) don’t have the correct ins and outs. They all seem to end in the right place but they all start at 1.00.00;00.
2. The keyframes are placed 1 minute down the timeline (i.e. a KF that should be at 1.00.00;00 is showing up at 1.01.00;00 — but they are in the correct position relative to each other, it seems to be an overall shift.
Please see if you can trace this — its really almost there, these just seem like simple parsing errors to me.
Dale said,
February 26, 2008 at 11:21 am
Hey Lu,
Thanks for the feedback. I’ve hit a lull in dev time available for the project, but I’m hoping to have some time open up soon so I can fix the bugs you’re talking about. Can you send the xml of the file you’re working on so I can be sure it’s a bug on my current fix list?
Thanks,
Dale