Automatic-duck Pro Import AE 5.0 (Win 64-bit for CS5 or CS5.5) Manuel d'utilisateur Page 1

Pro!Import!AE 5.0User Guidelast updated October 16, 2011About Pro Import AEPro Import AE is Automatic Duck's oldest plug-in, first released in the

Label audio and video tracks separatelyThis option will color all of the video layers one label color and all the audio layers the other.What is trans

Effects and parameters that are not supported are not translated, and are therefore lost. Please keep this in mind as you prepare to migrate from your

CropRectangular Mask createdMedia Playback RatePlayback Rate in Interpret FootagePerspective > Flop (Horizontal)Transform Effect applied, Scale set

This warning notifies you that some “effects” are not supported. In the context of this dialog, the term effects refers not only to effect filters, but

Motion must be installed on the Mac youʼre using After Effects on, without Motion installed QuickTime cannot open the mini Motion project files created

supports nesting, so your nested sequences from FCP will become nested compositions in After Effects.Be aware that audio from nested compositions may

This structure of a layer named “Layer” containing a clip called “Rocket Launch” could easily be recreated in After Effects. You can imagine a comp ca

the clips (and perhaps even other layers) contained within and the “bounding box” that represents the nest in the Motion canvas is drawn on the fly. Ne

As the middle jumper is rotated, the virtual nest in Motion widens, but Pro Import AE doesnʼt consider rotation when it calculates the size of the nes

Locators from Avid editing systems are also translated into After Effects markers.Motion offers markers that can be applied to either clips in the tim

SettingsThe settings dialog is organized into two tabs, the Footage and Media tab for options dealing specifically with the imported media files and the

Text and TitlesPro Import AE is able to read the text from titles created in Avid (Media Composer 10 and later) and Final Cut editing systems then cre

Avid Matte KeyWhen you bring in Matte Key effects from your Avid system, they will result in Luma Track Mattes. This is good, but what isnʼt good is t

Set the effect so that the Input Black is 16 and the Input White is 235. You can leave the other settings, you want the Output Black to be 0 and the O

Validate timecode of found Final Cut mediaSometimes customers run into a situation where they have multiple copies of a media file available on their s

Avid Media optionsAfter Effects cannot by itself play all Avid media files, indeed when Automatic Duck started After Effects couldn't read any Avi

Superimpose, but if you have a third party AVX effect applied it will not be translated.If you have a sweet effect that you created in the Avid and wa

Custom search pathsJust like you might want to instruct Pro Import AE to never search certain places you might also want to give the plug-in some prio

Override composition setting presetSometimes you want your After Effects comp to be setup differently than your editing timeline was set, you can use

As you would expect, when Layers step down in comp is selected, layers from earlier in the comp appear higher in the layer order and later clips appea

Precompify layers based on trackWhile certainly the power of Pro Import AE is that it builds an AE comp with each video clip as a separate layer. But