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Replacing or connecting After Effects projects in the FCP X timeline

Replacing or connecting After Effects projects in the FCP X timeline - Final Cut Pro Tutorial

From the course: Final Cut Pro X Guru: Motion Graphics in Motion and After Effects

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Replacing or connecting After Effects projects in the FCP X timeline

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- It's now time to add our After Effects clips into our FCP X project. Let's navigate on our computer to bring the files into our media browser followed by our project timeline. So I'm here in my 4.12 Keyword Collection, I've double-clicked my project to open it and you might remember this from a previous movie, so one recommendation that I made before sending over clips into After Effects, is to simply duplicate them inside the timeline drag them above using the option key and then simply turn them off by using the shortcut "v". If we were to let's say now, replace these clips we could then replace them and have them in our timeline over the material that we've sent. What that would look like is we could simply go into our Motion Graphic Event here and from the File Menu we can choose to import our media file and go on our system to where we saved our clip. So, in this case wherever you've saved your clip or the clip that you've saved out from your After Effects project, we could go…

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