Exporting for After effects CS3

Hey all,
im trying to export some clips from final cut pro 6 to use in After effects. How do i go about doing this without losing any quality? Thanks

kevan Freeland wrote:
Thats what i thought, but when i use compressor to export an animation, i get a smaller image with more grain and pixelation. I need a reference movie i think but am not sure what that really means.
You don't use Compressor to create a file using the Animation codec, just export right out of FCP using QT Conversion and select Animation. But then you have to make sure the settings are correct and, frankly, you don't sound like you're up to that.
You don't need Animation unless you need to transfer alpha information. You probably just need a reference movie, as you stated. Easily found in the help system for FCP or in the manuals. A bit tricky till you get the concept. A reference movie isn't a movie, it's just a text file that points to the pieces of movies on your drives that make up the sequence. AE sees the reference move as a real movie. However, if you change something back in the sequence to which the reference is pointing, like you change the spelling on some text, the reference movie will break because the material it used to point at is gone.
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