Final Cut and After Effects on separate comps

I have just recently had the need to use after effects for some video projects. The problem is that I have After effects on my computer and Final cut pro on my schools edit bays.
Is there a way to make a reference movie that I can bring to my comp, then take the effects back to FCP.
Basically I just want to know If I can do this with two different computers. Make the effects on one, and edit the video on another.
Thanks.

The need for transparency would depend on your project. As an example, if you were doing a motion graphics element, you may want to build it all over top of your original video. Then before render you could "mute" out the original clip and render only your graphics. But you'd need to maintain the transparency so that the only part visible in the rendered final would be the motion elements with empty, invisible pixels all around it. So the transparency gets carried along in an "alpha channel". Doesn't sound like you're going to need this.
So you could simply export a self-contained movie from FCP at school. It will be best, for quality, if you can "Use Current Audio Video Settings" when coming out of FCP. However, this will only work for you, at home, if your home system has the same codec that you'd been working in while in FCP. If not, you've got to determine the best intermediate codec.
You may want to export some extra material around the clips in question so as to make sure you've got everything usable, and then some. So if you've got a 5 second clip you want to export, maybe back up 10-15 frames prior to your clip, set your IN point. Move out 10-15 frames after your 5 second clip and set your OUT point. That way you've got your clip + some extra material.
Take these to the home machine with AE and add your effects. Then render out a movie, that again, matches the sequence settings for the target sequence in FCP.
Remember to pay attention to codecs along the way. In general, the fewer times you hop between codecs, the better the final quality is going to be. What codec are you working in?

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