foolcut_AE : FinalCutPro X to After Effects export with R3Ds conform !

[Mikael Lubtchansky]

New version 0.97 adds support for FCP 10.0.1
fixes several audio issues, and adds audio Roles as AE markers...
enjoy

 

[Mikael Lubtchansky]

I think not only you are a smart man but a very funny one. I loved your video tutorial. I think I might copy you on that computer voice, because I did few video tutorials in the past and I hate my voice!

Thanks Ivan and Bruce for the nice comments
The computer voice is a bit weird so it tried to make it funny, but sure is better than my french accent I guess... Stu Maschwitz had a fun tweet about my script :
Stephen Hawking explains how to import an edit from FCP X into AE. And then, for some reason, piano. http://vimeo.com/28681222

Here's a small script I have to test and record directly a text to an aiff using the shell (you'll often have to add a comma or other punctuations marks to make it sound better) :

paste this in Apple's Script editor app :

set a to "Your text here"
say a
if button returned of (display dialog "Record this text as aiff file to the desktop ?" buttons {"No yet", "Yes"} default button 2 with title "Record audio") is "Yes" then do shell script "say -o \"" & POSIX path of ((path to desktop)) & "audiofile.aiff\" " & a

 

[Christian Berg]

Hi Mikael!

Is there any chance that you could make a OMF export application for FCPX? Automatic Duck´s version is not for sale right now and I think it is a little too expensive... Or if you could make a XML conversion so we can get our audio to FCP7.

Like the work you done with foolcut_AE, will be getting it as soon as there is a good OMF/AAF solution out there at a good price. Then FCPX is workable.

 

[Mikael Lubtchansky]

I am working on such a tool now. FCP X to FCP 7 audio (will add video later too). It is a bit tricky but as soon as it works I'll post the info here. I try to make an export that will put everything into a single FCP 7 sequence (even compound clips) because then the OMF export will have access to all original audio clips instead of flattened ones for the compound clips.

As a temporary solution you can use foolcut_ae to make an OMF. It seems like there are some issues with certain clips when going from AE to Premiere where some may get a 1 frame or subframe offset but there is not much I can do about it as it seems all good in AE... [... investigating that now]

check out this video tutorial just posted by Jef Gibbons (a nice audio guy working in Nuendo) on fcp.co :
http://www.fcp.co/final-cut-pro/news/607-omf-export-out-of-fcpx-the-long-way-round

Mikael

 

[Christian Berg]

Sounds great. Is it hard to make a plain OMF exporter?

 

[Mikael Lubtchansky]

Sounds great. Is it hard to make a plain OMF exporter?

No idea really. haven't looked seriously into it yet.

FCP X is so flexible and modern in the way it deals with clips in the timeline (compound, anchored, lanes...), it is a bit complex already to convert to AE or FCP 7...
For now having a good translate to FCP 7 and deal with the OMF, EDL or other exports from there would be enough for my personal needs so that's what I'm working on now... that said, I will have a look later at the OMF or AAF formats see what is doable directly...

 

[Mikael Lubtchansky]

Just updated the first post with latest 2 months of update history... For whoever is interested in FCP - RED RAW workflows using Adobe After Effects the new version released today adds :

- drastic new speed for complex projects with lots of source footage / edits (x8 in my tests)
- fix for a major bug on OS X Lion (could cause a plain app crash when in Lion 64bit mode)
- a simple progress bar and info dialog so you know what the script is doing at all time...