Hello everyone,

I was wondering how I could go about using 720p24 ProRes footage captured directly from the GY-HD101E via firewire in FCP (6.0.4) into After Effects and then back to FCP...

I only care to get some scenes (not the whole movie edit) into AE for digital effects and then out to FCP in order to grade with Color...

I try to import the pure ProRes footagein AE, and by doing very simple operations, AE crashes. So I was wondering to what I should convert to, work in AE, then convert back out to...?

Warm Regards,

Nick Papadopoulos

Is your AE on the same system as FCS2? IF not then you will have to copy the ProRes codec onto the AE system. If AE is on a PC then you'll have to use a different codec.

You can export edited sections as Quicktime reference movie. Years ago there was a free AAF exporter for FCP (supplied by Automatic Duck I think) that could export and AAF that could be imported into AE as a composition (with layers.) I just tried google searching and couldn't find the exporter. I wonder if MXF or XML would work?

If you don't specifically need After Effects I would suggest Motion 3, which I've completely converted to.

Hello,

Yes, AE is on the same system. You see though, my problem is ProRes... It's not a very stable solution for me since I get crashing every so often, with very simple operations on the image. I tried it on DV footage and I had no problems. I understand that AE really likes I-Frame based codecs, but perhaps not this one... (AE CS3 updated)

Even with automatic duck, the project does not get converted, it just creates a file that references all media on disk, and is readable by AE.

I really do need AE for my HD work, since its is part of the team's workflow...

Anyone else having problems (or solutions :) ) with ProRes and AE CS3?