Our new tutorial: FCP to AE with R3D retaining speed and zoom fx

From Digital Cinema Lessons "In this lesson Luca will walk you through the steps in order to take Red's R3D media from Clipfinder in order to select your circle takes, send that into RedcineX for rendering out dailies. The clips are then brought into FCP to create a quick edit and finally sending this FCP timeline into Adobe After Effects while maintaining scaling proportions as well as time remapping on each of the clips". Software Used: Clipfinder 2.5: http://www.daun.ch/hamingja/clipfinder2.5.html and Popcorn Island: http://www.popcornisland.com/2009/03/final-cut-2-after-effects/

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RCX EDL workflow

Ok guys, about conforming: the currently RCX build 351 imports FCP XML with one extra frame per clip, this is a trouble especially for long timelines.
I've managed a workaround.
1 In FCP export an EDL and XML
2 Import the EDL into RCX and when RCX asks for EDL settings set the timecode source out to EXCLUSIVE (this is crucial or it won't work)
3 RCX will import your timeline correctly, then grade the clips and render
4 In Clipfinder run conform on FCP XML, set as XML input file the XML that you have previously exported from FCP and choose a name for the XML output file.
Don't check "replace clips with ..." and check the other options. Adjust the sequence with your clips resolution and run conform.
5 Import the new XML into FCP.
Now you will have a new FCP timeline with the clips exported from RCX. Wow!

FCP 7 XML INTO PREMIERE

Update! With the last update, Premiere Pro can now import the XML of FCP 7 flawlessly :-)

There are several ways to go from FCP to AE (I really like FCPToAE) but what about if you edited all your project in FCP and you need to import into Premiere? (Sometime it happens...).

Adobe worked hard improving Premiere and they did a very good job. A nice  feature is the possibility to import a FCP XML into Premiere but Apple changed something in the latest FCP (7) and now it doesn't work anymore. Some people reported that you have to use the XML version 4, without audio and effects in order to work and export an xml, importing into a system with FCP6 and exporting another xml.

I've found another method and it works also with audio.

1 From FCP 7 export a XML version 4

2 In Clipfinder choose Tools - Run conform on FCP XML file

3 In Xml input file choose the xml you have exported from FCP

4 In Xml output file choose a name that you want

5 Uncheck all the options 

6 In clip directories add where your source files are

7 Run Conform

8 Import the new Xml into Premiere

9 Enjoy!