founded 2001 headquarters snohomish washington usa products timeline translation software used in the television and film industry number of employees 4 website www.automaticduck.com automatic duck is a software developer based near seattle known for their plug ins that translate edited sequences between final cut pro avid after effects quantel pro tools and other professional digital video editing tools . contents 1 history 2 community involvement 3 products 3.1 current products 3.2 discontinued products 4 references 5 external links history edit automatic duck was founded in 2001 by harry plate and wes plate father and son respectively . before this time the junior plate has been working as a video editor and frequently needed the ability to translate avid sequences into after effects . 1 wes was quite familiar with the omfi file format and knew if after effects could be made to read omf it would open many possibilities for editors around the world . harry s career was as a software engineer having worked for texas instruments hewlett packard and agilent technologies . ideas for a plug in for after effects were discussed as early as 1999 but it wouldn t be until october 2000 that development would begin in earnest . automatic duck s first product an after effects import plug in that could read avid omf exports was called automatic composition import and shipped just before the national association of broadcasters exposition in april 2001 . 2 3 in december 2001 automatic duck began courting the growing final cut pro user community with the announcement of automatic composition import fcp 4 a plug in set that would allow final cut pro sequences to be translated into after effects . automatic duck started offering interchange between final cut pro and avid in july 2002 with automatic sequence export pro 5 a plug in that could export an omf composition for import into an avid editing system . in february 2003 macworld magazine awarded automatic sequence export pro 4.5 stars . 6 a tool to import avid sequences into final cut pro was released in december 2003 with a plug in called pro import fcp 7 a plug in for final cut pro that read omf files . in 2004 automatic duck released pro import c3 a plug in for discreet s combustion compositing software . 8 pro import c3 was later renamed pro import cmb . eventually the after effects import plug in was renamed pro import ae and the final cut omf export plug in was renamed pro export fcp . the plug ins have improved in the amount of information translated as well as adding support for newer file formats such as aaf mxf and xml . pro import ae is now at version 4.0 pro import fcp at version 2.0 and pro export fcp at version 4.0 . in september 2011 automatic duck announced a close partnership with adobe systems to bring that same interchange functionality to premiere pro . wes plate joined the adobe product marketing team while harry plate will be assisting with the technology integration . the company later announced that due to wes and harry relocating to adobe all automatic duck products would be offered free of charge stating that they will not be able to offer a level of customer support that justifies charging for their products . community involvement edit since the beginning automatic duck has been a supporter of editing user groups 9 sponsoring after effects final cut pro and avid user groups around the united states and canada . 10 automatic duck president wes plate has a long history with online community support having been a member of the avid l since 1996 and having in the past been a leader on the wwug and creative cow as well as being active on other listservs and discussion forums . automatic duck is also a leader in standards development being an associate member of the advanced media workflow association helping to guide the development of the aaf file format . products edit current products edit pro import ae 4.0 pro export fcp 4.0 pro import fcp 2.0 media copy 2.0 prodate dv discontinued products edit pro import ppro pro export ppro pro import cmb 1.0 references edit ae and avid strategic lessons for success tutorial that originally appeared on the wwug website automatic composition import press release february 26 2001 nab 2001 an editor s report automatic composition import fcp announcement press release december 5 2001 automatic sequence export pro announcement july 1 2002 macworld magazine review february 1 2003 pro import fcp announcement december 8 2003 pro import c3 announcement june 28 2004 interview with wes plate president automatic duck moving pictures collective meeting report june 18 2008 external links edit automatic duck official site retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title automatic duck & oldid 698088657 categories technology companies established in 2001 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search 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