review of automatic duck pro import ae 5.0

Scott Simmons with a great little review on Automatic Duck Pro Import AE version 5.0. Automatic Duck has longstanding been the way to have interoperability from a non-linear editor to after effects and back again… a seriously useful tool. Check out the review here. Of course there are other tools for specifically bringing in Final Cut Pro edits into After Effects by means of AppleScript such as Using the free BasicFCP to AE from Laurent Henriot.

“One popular tool for getting your edit into After Effectsis Automatic Duck Pro Import AE, a long-time favorite since its inception in 2001 by editor Wes Plate and his engineer father, Harry Plate. It was a company born out of necessity: under deadline, Wes needed to get his offline edits into Adobe After Effects. Realizing that he obviously wasn’t the only one with this problem, he and his father set out to create a series of plug-ins that would solve it.”