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After Effects integration PRODUCTION
PRODUCTION This feature requires the Production add-on (free for the first 14 days). In the trial or without the add-on, menu items show " (Production only)" and cannot be used.
Setup
- Start After Effects and open a project.
- In After Effects, turn on Preferences → Scripting & Expressions → "Allow Scripts to Write Files and Access Network".
If this setting is off, "After Effects did not respond" appears after about 30 seconds. On Mac, a screen asking to allow control of After Effects may appear the first time you send.
Send from ShotList2 to After Effects
- Select clip rows in the list (or the Review BOX).
- In After Effects' Project panel, select the folder to send to.
- In ShotList2, right-click → "After Effects" and choose:
| Menu | What it does |
|---|---|
| "Send to the selected folder" | Imports the clips into the folder selected in After Effects |
| "Create a new folder "shotlist_<name>_NN" in the selected folder and send" | Creates a new folder inside the selected folder and imports into it |
| "Send and Create a Composition..." | Imports the clips and creates a composition with them laid out (below) |
- An image sequence becomes one footage item.
- The footage fps is set from ShotList2.
- Clips already in the same folder are skipped.
- Clips After Effects could not read are reported in a window.
- The import can be undone in After Effects with a single Undo.
Send and create a composition
"Send and Create a Composition..." opens the "Send to After Effects with a Composition" window.
| Item | Contents |
|---|---|
| Name | The composition name (_NN is added at the end) |
| fps | Choose from the list or type a value |
| Resolution | "Match the media", choose from the list, or type width x height |
| Media size | As is / Fit / Fill / Stretch / Match the editing app setting (DaVinci Resolve) |
| Still duration | 1 second by default |
| Layout | "Back to back in the ShotList order" or "Keep the Record TC" |
| Layer order | Top to bottom / bottom to top |
The cut order is the order currently shown in ShotList2 (as sorted and filtered).
Make a list from After Effects
Choose File → "Import from After Effects Project..." and set "What to import":
- Every footage item in the project
- Everything under the selected folder
- The selected footage
- Composition layers (one row per used range)
Choose "Include disabled layers" and "Read inside precomps" (both No by default) and "Import into" ("Add to Current Project" by default), then import.