From After Effects to Motion plug-in or export

How do I contact Motion Apple engineers, I want to pay to have a plug-in developed that will save, or export After Effects projects as Motion projects.
Trace Burroughs
LMENSTUDIO(at)aol.com

There are several plug-ins and scripts that export After Effects data in forms that can be used by other applications. Pretty much every aspect of a project is exposed through the scripting interface (with a few minor exceptions).
If you want to create a script or plug-in to do so, you can get the information from the documents on the After Effects Developer Center:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/aftereffects.html
There are links to forums for scripting and plug-in development on that page.
If you don't want to write your own, check out the forum AE Enhancers:
http://aenhancers.com/
A lot of great script writers and plug-in developers hang out there.

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I find that exporting from After Effects is problematic when using a ramp or working with anything that has a gradient of some kind.
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http://help.adobe.com/en_US/aftereffects/cs/using/WS3878526689cb91655866c1103a4f2dff7-79f4 a.html#WS3878526689cb91655866c1103a4f2dff7-79f1a

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and my composition settings are correct, from what I can tell.
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my workflow is to edit and export in FCP as quicktime movie - work on the clip in AE and then export as Animation/best quality/Millions of colors+. The footage is SD Pal 1024 x 576.
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