How should i go about sending a Final Cut Pro sequence to After Effects, and then exporting from After Effects in order to avoid double compression.
What settings?
Don’t know the answer but someone at b-roll.net might be able to help you.
Export an image sequence from FCP, 24 bit TGA Targa files are lossless. Importing an image sequence in AE is easy and instantly is formed into the equivalent of a clip. Then you can export from AE as good as new.
the TGA sequence will be huge. You can also work in the same codec as the footage is in to avoid compression. Eg if you have prores source footage in FCP, export as prores with the same codec settings, FCP is smart enough to avoid recompression on parts of the footage that is just cuts (no color correction or other changes that involve re-rendering)
The Creative Cow FCP forum is probably the best place for this type of question, you’ll get an answer within a hour of posting usually.
I would export the timeline as a quicktime reference, import into AE, and then render out as a full-res pro-res quicktime for FCP. I’m an Avid guy, but I believe the same works in Final Cut. The file will be tiny.
It’d be about the same as an uncompressed Quicktime.
I would have expected that anything imported into After Effects is relatively short. It’s easier to work with when it is.