![]() The company later announced that due to Wes and Harry relocating to Adobe all Automatic Duck products would be offered free of charge, stating that they will not be able to offer a level of customer support that justifies charging for their products. Wes Plate joined the Adobe Product Marketing team while Harry Plate will be assisting with the technology integration. In September 2011 Automatic Duck announced a close partnership with Adobe Systems to bring that same interchange functionality to Premiere Pro. Pro Import AE is now at version 4.0, Pro Import FCP at version 2.0 and Pro Export FCP at version 4.0. The plug-ins have improved in the amount of information translated as well as adding support for newer file formats such as AAF, MXF and XML. Pro Import C3 was later renamed Pro Import Cmb.Įventually the After Effects import plug-in was renamed Pro Import AE and the Final Cut OMF export plug-in was renamed Pro Export FCP. In 2004 Automatic Duck released Pro Import C3, a plug-in for Discreet's Combustion compositing software. Ī tool to import Avid sequences into Final Cut Pro was released in December 2003 with a plug-in called Pro Import FCP, a plug-in for Final Cut Pro that read OMF files. ![]() ![]() In February 2003 MacWorld magazine awarded Automatic Sequence Export PRO 4.5 stars. In December 2001 Automatic Duck began courting the growing Final Cut Pro user community with the announcement of Automatic Composition Import FCP, a plug-in set that would allow Final Cut Pro sequences to be translated into After Effects.Īutomatic Duck started offering interchange between Final Cut Pro and Avid in July 2002 with Automatic Sequence Export Pro, a plug-in that could export an OMF composition for import into an Avid editing system. Ideas for a plug-in for After Effects were discussed as early as 1999, but it wouldn't be until October 2000 that development would begin in earnest.Īutomatic Duck's first product, an After Effects import plug-in that could read Avid OMF exports, was called Automatic Composition Import and shipped just before the National Association of Broadcasters exposition in April 2001. Harry's career was as a software engineer, having worked for Texas Instruments, Hewlett Packard and Agilent Technologies. Wes was quite familiar with the OMFI file format and knew if After Effects could be made to read OMF it would open many possibilities for editors around the world. Before this time the junior Plate has been working as a video editor and frequently needed the ability to translate Avid sequences into After Effects. *if you go to and still get redirected to our letter from last month you may need to flush your DNS cache so you get to our new site.Automatic Duck is a software developer based near Seattle known for their plug-ins that translate edited sequences between Final Cut Pro, Avid, After Effects, Quantel, Pro Tools and other professional digital video editing tools.Īutomatic Duck was founded in 2001 by Harry Plate and Wes Plate, father and son respectively. Thank you to all of our users, working with you for the last 10 1/2 years was a truly wonderful experience. So if you can make use of these plug-ins in your projects, enjoy! We are unable to provide support at the same level as we have over the years, but we didn't want these plug-ins to go away while they remain useful. Starting today Pro Import AE, Pro Import FCP and Pro Export FCP (both versions, for FCP7 and FCPX) are available at no charge. Our web site has relaunched* and while the overall look of the site is similar there is a dramatic difference in how we are distributing our plug-ins. If you missed our mail last month you should check it out as it got a lot of people talking. These freebies are very valuable to those who still need them. If anyone can get through to a "real" web page, please let me know. Today they "claim" the site is back up, although for the life of me, I can't get anything but the "we sold our souls to Adobe" news page they put up some time ago. As you may or may not know, Adobe bought out Automatic Duck totally, and their site went down, they stopped supporting/selling their vital Final Cut products.
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