Automatic Duck's
Pro Import FCP 2.0

The most-powerful import plug-in available for Final Cut Pro!

Pro Import FCP 2.07 supports Final Cut Pro 7

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Edison and Leo

Read about how Pro Import FCP saved several hundred hours of work on Canada's first stop-motion animation film.

Is Pro Import FCP right for you?

If you're using Final Cut Pro to finish shows offlined on an Avid editing systems, Pro Import FCP is a must-have.

If you need your tracks and clips kept separate from Pro Tools (animators?), Pro Import FCP is for you.

Using Pro Import FCP 2.0 for Final Cut Pro you can import OMF 2.0 and AAF files from Avid editing systems, OMF 2.0 and AAF files from Digital Audio Workstations like Pro Tools, AAF Edit Protocol files*, AAF files exported from Toon Boom's Storyboard Pro, even XML files created by Panasonic's HPM200!

Pro Import FCP 2.0 is the most complete import solution for Final Cut Pro, a real must-have for professional FCP editors.

Pro Import FCP $495	Existing Pro Import FCP users can upgrade for $195
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QuickTime Demos

Avid to FCP 1
This demo shows a long, complex sequence being translated from an Avid into FCP. You couldn't do this with EDLs!

Avid to FCP 2
This example shows how Use Existing Media allows your Avid media to play back in FCP

StoryBoard Pro to FCP
Doing your pre-vis in Toon Boom's Storyboard Pro? Want the edit in Final Cut Pro? Pro Import FCP can make it happen.

Pro Tools to FCP
Watch as a feature-length project is translated from Pro Tools into Final Cut, with both media and volume automation coming across.

More Details

Avid Title Tool** and Marquee title effects translated into FCP Text Generators***
Picture-in-Picture, including keyframes (old-keyframe model)
3-D Warp, including keyframes (old-keyframe model)
Resize, including keyframes
Superimpose, including keyframes
Collapsed layers become nested sequences
Speed Changes both traditional motion effects and time warps
Strobe
Dissolves
Dip to Color Dissolves
Freeze Frames
Flops and Flips
Transfer Modes from Profound Effects' Transfer AVX plug-in
Audio Pan
Audio Automation Gain keyframe
24fps sequence import
HDV, MPEG and XDCAM media not supported in "Use existing media" option.
Pro Import FCP 2.07 is supported by Avid Unity!

Imports timeline and media from OMF exports
Also can import audio-only OMF 2.0 files exported from Final Cut Pro
Quantizes edits to frame boudaries if needed
Volume automation import
Fade effects translated into Final Cut Pro cross fades****

StoryBoard Pro exports edits from storyboard into AAF
Pro Import FCP translates AAF file into FCP sequence
Use the "Use existing media" option in Pro Import FCP to connect FCP to the QuickTime files generated by StoryBoard Pro
StoryBoard Pro 1.5 or later required

Using Pro Import FCP you can import into Final Cut Pro edited sequences made in Panasonic's new HPM200
First use Log & Transfer to convert the MXF files to QuickTime, then you can import the XML file produced by the HPM200 using Pro Import FCP

* Pro Import FCP 2.0 can not import AAF files that contain more than one sequence.
** from Media Composer 8 or later
*** text only, no style translation
**** Pro Tools exports its Fades as regions, or as regular audio clips, not as effects. Other DAWs like MOTU's Digital Performer can export fades as actual effects, which Pro Import FCP 2.0 will translate.

Download and read the Pro Import FCP 2.0 user guide.

System Requirements

Final Cut Pro 5.02 or later, including 7.0
Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later
Media Composer 7.0 or later
Export from Pro Tools requires DigiTranslator 2.0 from DigiDesign

Automatic Duck's Pro Import FCP 2.0