Pro Import FCP and Pro Export FCP updates now available

Updates to Pro Import FCP and Pro Export FCP are now available. Pro Import FCP 2.06 and Pro Export FCP 4.02 include fixes and improvements made since the last updates and also include changes to make the plug-ins compatible with Final Cut Pro 7.

Users of Pro Import FCP 2 and Pro Export FCP 4 can update to the latest versions at no cost. Click here to download the new installers.

Final Cut Pro 7.0 compatibility

Apple announced Final Cut Pro 7.0 today, so you may be wondering, will Pro Import FCP and Pro Export FCP work in the new version?

At the time of this writing there are known minor incompatibilities with Pro Export FCP 4.01, Pro Import FCP 2.05 and Final Cut Pro 7.0. These problems are already fixed and point releases will be be put out as soon as possible for users upgrading to FCP 7.

We will send an email to our mailing list, update the blog as well as post on Twitter when the new point releases are ready to download.

Duplicate drive names

We had an issue come up where a plug-in was unable to find media it was searching for, and it turned out the user had two drives with the same name. Once one of the drives was renamed the import and media search completed correctly.

Please keep your drive names unique, two drives with the same name will cause problems.

Media Copy 2.0 now shipping

Media Copy 2.0 is now shipping! If you need to take your sequences from Avid or FCP to After Effects on a different computer Media Copy may be just the thing for you. It reads your AAF, OMF and XML files and figures out the media being used then copies those media files to a device you specify. Helpful? Indeed.

Learn more at http://www.automaticduck.com/products/mc/

AE CS3 and imports from Avid

Recently we had a few users all with the same problem, After Effects would crash while importing into After Effects CS3 an AAF file from an Avid. We do not know exactly why AE was crashing, but we did discover that the same crash would not occur in CS4.

This leads us to recommend users of After Effects CS3 importing from Avids consider upgrading to After Effects CS4, it seems to solve this potential issue.

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Resize parameters not exported from Avid to AAF

Avid editing systems do not export parameters for the Resize effect when exporting to AAF. The result in Final Cut Pro when you import via Pro Import FCP is that your clip will not have any of the repositioning information from the Avid. This is not a bug in Pro Import FCP, the problem is on the Avid side where the effect data is not exported into the AAF file.

If you can export OMF 2.0, that export will have the Resize parameters in it.

Click here to see an example Resize in Avid

Click here to see the result in FCP

PIAE and PIFCP updates

Pro Import AE 4.02 and Pro Import FCP 2.04 are now available for download from http://www.automaticduck.com/support/updates/

These two point releases address issues found since the last releases including a fix to the QuickTime 7.4.1 incompatibility on Windows causing error 108 messages. The Pro Import FCP 2.04 update includes the previously announced functionality that improves the "Use existing media" option when using DV25, DV50 or DVCProHD media.

These updates are free to users with current licenses.