From the course: Final Cut Pro X Weekly

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AE workflows

AE workflows

- Welcome to Final Cut Pro X Weekly. I'm Nick and Jeff's not here right now. This week we're going to talk about Adobe After Effects Workflows. And that's how you can either get a clip or a Final Cut Pro X project into After Effects. Some of the key concepts we'll be exploring include getting our footage in with no plugins, or no need of any third-party software. But then we're going to look at a very powerful plugin from FXFactory called Automatic Duck Ximport AE of how we can take a Final Cut Pro X project, get it into After Effects, maintaining quite a bit of the maybe effects, mixed with changes we've made to some of our parameters. We're going to look at one of the advantages of After Effects while we're there, which is how we can work with layered Illustrator assets, something Final Cut Pro X nor Motion can do. And then last but not least, we need to get our After Effects projects that we sent from Final Cut Pro maybe back to Final Cut Pro, and do we want the alpha channel or…

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