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Can I just say Automatic Duck is the bomb! It’s almost magic in it’s simplicity and power.
--from the creative|ideas blog
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Dave Smith
creative|ideas
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i did want to tell you i just used auto duck to convert a show i offlined on FCP to Avid Nitris, with a very successful online; it was a Frontline episode which will air in the fall. The conversion was pretty bulletproof; it took longer to get the thumb drive with the sequence on it to mount on the avid than it did to convert the pix locked sequence.
Thanks for making it seamless!
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Robert (via IM)
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Automatic Duck be a wonderful thing. I use it every day. You'll get all your dissolves, speed changes, etc. Saves a ton of time.
(posted on the Media Motion AE-List)
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Jack Tunnicliffe
Java Post Production
http://www.javapost.ca
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For the past several years, [Automatic Duck] has offered a significant discount at NAB, and every year I have thought... this is something that I really should do. This year, I took advantage of the discount, and now I am kicking myself for not having bought the 'Duck' years ago. Don't think about it.... don't pass go... don't collect any more dust... Just DO IT! You'll be so glad you did. It has opened up a lot of possibilities for creating stuff that I would never do otherwise.....
(posted on the Media Motion AE-List)
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Taylor Collins
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This fall MGM will release our romantic Comedy, "The Other End of
the Line" because once again, AutoDuck saved the day!!
Thanks Wes for your amazing program!! As I rush to make Cannes, I'm
sitting here thinking, "If it weren't for AutoDuck, we'd never make
it!!"
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James Dodson
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I am the Lead Editor and motion graphics designer at Outdoor Channel and we just recently purchased Pro Import AE and I'm loving it's power.
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Paul Escandon
Outdoor Channel
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I use Automatic Duck every day of my life. Don't know what I'd do without it.
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Jack Tunnicliffe
Java Post
http://javapost.ca/
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thank you, thank you, thank you,
this is the greatest tool ever
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Maximilian von Stromberg
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[Pro Export FCP] works flawlessly and saves me a lot of time and money. I couldn't master my show without it!
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Jeff Schneider
MTV's "True Life"
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The Duck totally rocks...it's completely changed my workflow: I can't imagine working without it now. Absolutely brilliant, kudos!
Thank you for saving me a ton of time!
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Iver Walkoe
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Works perfect!
I love it!
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Rod Zalmanowitz
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just a quick "thanks" for making my FCP->AE life awesome
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devilbond via IM
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Finished a project this week... you saved me a good 15 hours of work.
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Rich Harrington
RHED Pixel
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man I love this program! I was having all kind of problems getting the Avid EDL to talk to the FCP suite properly, someone pointed me to you - and within seconds, it's all there, happy as a larry.
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Richard Walker
Fairline Productions
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I have been using your fine product and very much enjoying it with
FCP5.1 and After Effects 7 - well done! Life has definitely improved!
Our workflow is transformed.
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Jes B
Technobabble
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Final Cut Pro with automaticduck and ProTools for postproduction...great team
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Manuel Fernández Sánchez
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Let me be the first to tell you that you and automatic duck are pure genius.
You made a believer out of me and i will be certain to tell anybody and everybody that i encounter about your product and team.
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smleflms (via IM)
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The duck rocks! I am using Pro Import Cmb to send Premiere files to Combustion on the PC. This is saving me 3 hours of work on each 5 minute timeline, as I used to have to move projects manually. I used to have to subtract in and out points in Premiere from the clip head frame, then factor speed changes, then manually import each clip and enter the in and out in Combustion. After all that, I didn't have the clip handles that I get automaticduckly from the duck. Thanks for helping me get to the fun part fast!
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Tim Schaller
Fogline
http://www.fogline.com
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When we started our project we chose Adobe Premiere Pro for features that
we know to be available in other NLE systems. At first we were not planning
on doing a sound mix using Pro Tools but when the decision was made so late
into post production we had to come up with a way for Adobe Premiere Pro to
be able to talk with Pro Tools. After considering reassembling in another
NLE we were introduced to Automatic Duck's Pro Export PPro. Once the file
was installed the OMF export went smother than imagined and imported into
Pro Tools without any problems. With this plug-in for Adobe Premiere Pro I
now have very little reason to use another NLE due to its integration with
nearly every program available.
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Jared Isham
Stage Ham Films
http://www.stgham.com/
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We had a rough-cut of our documentary using Premiere Pro but when we realized that we actually had a fine-cut on our hands, it was a pleasant surprise. We then needed to export an OMF for our sound edit/mix studio sessions directly from Premiere Pro and were caught in a bind. That was until Automatic Duck's Pro Export PPro saved the day and the timing couldn’t be more perfect for us! You guys did a great job. Thanks for thinking of us Premiere Pro users!
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Filmon Mebrahtu
Reel Voices
http://www.reelvoices.org
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Automatic Duck saved me a great deal of hassle & headache. With the Pro Export PPro I am now able to smoothly export my sound clips as OMF files from Premiere right into ProTools for post editing. This is one of those must have plug-ins! Thank you Automatic Duck. You guys are awesome!
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Hovik Thomasian
http://www.kfilms.tv/
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We have used Pro Export PPro for a couple of projects lately. The ability
to send our audio to Pro-Tools without exporting multiple files from the
timeline speeds up our post process immensely. I now feel that Premiere Pro
has made it to the big time with this plug-in.
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Ken Adolph
Media Group
http://www.mg.ca/
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The benefit of Pro Export PPro became self-evident to me when I was recently required to provide separate audio tracks from my Premiere Pro timeline to a Dolby licensed audio facility for use in a cinema commercial. The Dolby Surround Sound requirement is separate (mono) tracks. Export was a one step operation and it worked perfectly.
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Craig Howard
Shooter Film Company
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Once again, Automatic Duck lives up to its reputation as a leader and innovator in the post-production community.
Pro Export PPro helps bridge the gap between editors who rely on the features and stability of Premiere Pro and their counterparts in the audio world.
This tool is essential for anyone who edits with Premiere Pro, as well as any audio professional who collaborates with someone who does.
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Jesse Ettinger
Ettinger Productions
http://www.ettingerproductions.com
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As much as Premiere has tried to make their audio features better in Pro 1.5, it still doesn't come anywhere close to the functionality and ease of use of Sonar. Now I can use a program I'm 100% comfortable with for my audio processing, which is going to save me a ton of time, and will make everything sound better. Plus, now I can use my library of DX plugins, which I couldn't do with Premiere!
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Ryan Graham
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I just want to say: Thank you!
Pro Import AE is still the best, I exported a very large film project as a XML file and imported it with Pro Import AE 3.0. It just works as expected. it's simply the best! Congratulations, great work, I love it...
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Michael Krautwasser
Mountain Multi Media
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Just wanted to let you know I'm really really impressed with how the Duck brought this timeline in (to FCP), especially with all the collapsed sections of the AVID timeline. Looks like everything in those Nests are captured correctly as well.
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Walter Biscardi
Biscardi Creative Media
http://www.biscardicreative.com/
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Thanks so much for making a product that works as advertised, and works
well. My partner and i were grateful to learn that our hard to earn $ was very well spent.
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Terry Green
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I HIGHLY recommend AutoDuck. I've done many projects where I offline on Avid and online in FCP with the Duck- it's way smoother than offlining on FCP and using Media Mangler to uprez on the same box. Go figure.
(message was posted to FCP-L)
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Bill Davis
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The plug-in (Pro Import AE) works great. Very happy with it. This will indeed
change my life.
Thanks !
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Stéphane Fournier
Ottoblix
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I find Automatic Duck to be one of the best pieces of software I have.
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Karl Newman
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Time is the biggest enemy of editors and digital media artists. In a business where productivity is king, I need the most effective and innovative tools in my design kit that enable me to share effects-laden timelines between editing, compositing and finishing systems, and do all of this with blazing speed. Pro Import PPro unshackles my team, giving them the opportunity to freely design, quickly moving content between Avid, Final Cut Pro and Premiere Pro with ease. It's amazingly fast. And in my business, speed and quality are critical.
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Christian Hudon
Balestra Productions Inc.
http://www.balestra.tv/
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I love Automatic Duck.
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Wes Plate
Automatic Duck, Inc.
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It is soothing to see that someone has the sense bridge the gaps between today's most important editing and animation software.
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Daniel Annefelt
http://www.mtvne.com/
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We've been using the Duck for almost a year now and have fallen in love with the amount of headache it saves. Unlike the OMF conversion tools that come with other systems, the Duck blasts right through real-world projects.
Being able to do complicated finishing jobs in After Effects is way cool, and the new goodies in Pro Import AE 3.0 make things even cooler!
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Brian Higgins
http://www.soldesignfx.com/
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Automatic Duck is the kind of workflow enhancer that just makes you do things differently. All of a sudden you have one less thing to worry about, and this is exactly what you need to focus more on the actual ideas than on the tech tricks that will make them work.
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Alex Czetwertynski
http://www.disciplefilms.com/
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What I really like is that the entire process feels as simple as switching from one app to another--the source material is still there, your mix is still there, and it all happens by opening a project--or even dragging and dropping it into AE. It's hard to improve on that simplicity--and it's hard to beat that workflow.
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john christopher burns
http://www.jcbd.com/
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Duck = frickin' great.
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Frank Pledge
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Running Combustion on my Avid Symphony was always a great way to increase my creative capability, but I would never have thought to offer it with clients in the room.
Now I can, Pro Import Cmb allows me to switch over with very little effort. My existing Avid media is recognized by Combustion and I am off and running to create, Integrate in 3D space, and render at a much higher bit depth than my NLE can.
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Erik Peterson
Keep Me Posted
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I don't know how I could live without these plugins after using them. Great work.
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Paul Harb
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I am very impressed with your product. Thanks, we have needed this for a long time.
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Tyler Harris
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Got a chance to use your plugins- what a f***in' great experience! I have always known that what you are doing is brilliant, but your plug-in probably paid for itself in one job's worth of saved time, and it wasn't even too complex.
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Troy Murison
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Your product is very cool. I imported a heavily layered sequence from Avid and it came in nearly perfectly!
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Brandon Key
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Amazing! Thank you! I did moving PIPs, Superimposes, crops, variable soft edges, dissolves... all there! Transferred the media to my raid and was able to access the media files as well!
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Dave Allen
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As an educator I cannot stress how useful and productive the Pro Import C3 plugin is in a classroom environment. Its ability to make an NLE an intergrated package to Combustion has saved me hours in downtime for rendering. Truely a MUST HAVE plugin!
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Brian Bucacci
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Pro Import Cmb for Combustion is a real time saver. As a feature film editor I don't have time to waste, Pro Import Cmb eliminates literally hours of work exporting and lining up visual effects sequences between Final Cut Pro and Combustion. I've been using it daily since it's release and I couldn't be happier!
Thanks Automatic Duck folks!
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Alan Bell
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A big thank you, all of season 2 here at Dr. Phil the duck has saved us a lot of time. I'm in the middle of upgrading my home system, and I am definitely adding Automatic Duck to my artillery. I mainly use fcp and avid, but because the ease of loading sequences, I'm going to get After Effects.
Thank you and keep tearing those walls down.
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Brandon Balin
Dr. Phil
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Your FCP->AE plug-in suite has hyper-accelerated my creative process.
Thank you for the extraordinarily useful product!
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Niko Arana
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Just wanted to let you know that the Duck rocks! It's helped out on a number of big projects and we can no longer function without it.
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Alan Shisko
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In our most recent music video production for the Swedish pop trio Eskobar automatic duck saved us days of work by allowing us to export 10+ layers FCP cuts to AE for final composition.
All shots in the video are effects shots with many, many layers. All three band members are shot separately. All background and foreground elements are computer generated.
Lining this up any other way would have been a nightmare.
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Johan Edstrom
APPARAT, Sweden
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We heavily depend on Automatic Duck. It saves us hours of time.
Thanks and keep up the great work. We are glad there are guys like you making AVID play nicer with the other tools we use on a daily basis.
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Paul C. Rosen
Gotham Media Group
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I love the software. I use FCP and AE all day every day and your plugins make this workflow soooo much better.
Often time and difficulty of moving things around from one program to another meant sacrifices. Not now.
I can truly use the best of what each program offers without sacrificing time or workflow.
Thanks.
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Chris Tomberlin
OutPost Pictures
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This came from a post on Creative Cow...
I wanted to share some insights from a recent project, a spanish music video with massive amounts of keying and compositing.
All footage is green-screen from 2 panasonic AG-DVX100A 24p DV cameras captured & edited with Final Cut Pro and Combustion, & using the new Pro Import C3 from Automatick duck. Basic cuts were sent to combustion for keying, and fx ( standard Discreet keyer, no plugins) and back to FCP. After keying multilayer comps, the secuences were re-edited, color corrected & assembled (multiple sources per frame) and rendered with the backrounds (some were done in paint ). First the process of exchanging data between FCP & C* was kind of long due to the lenght of the clips and linking issues with OMF, but after some tests & having all footage in both machines all went smooth and fast.
Happy times for a freelancer!
Tools:
Combustion 3.02
Final Cut Pro 4.1
Automatic Duck Pro Import C3
1- BOXX S3s Dual Xeon 2.2 ,1 gig ram 180g RAID Nvidia Quadro XGL 900
1 -Dual 2 Ghz G5 2g ram ATI 9600
& Lots of coffee
Click here to see a :35 excert from the project
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Esteban Mora
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