Wes Plate of Automatic Duck moves to Adobe
Here is his letter in full:
Greetings!
We have some exciting news regarding Automatic Duck.
Over these many years we've enjoyed improving the interchange between Avid, Final Cut Pro, After Effects, Pro Tools, Smoke, Quantel and other AAF and OMF-friendly apps, and now we're thrilled to announce that Automatic Duck has partnered with Adobe Systems to bring that same interchange functionality to Premiere Pro. To that end I have joined the Adobe Product Marketing team and am really excited about their products both today and new things yet to be released. Harry Plate (my Dad and the co-Founder of Automatic Duck) will be assisting with the technology integration while continuing to focus on supporting other Automatic Duck partners.
We view our partnership with an Adobe as a great opportunity for our customers, as we will finally be able to offer the same best-in-class quality translation interface for Premiere Pro as we have offered in the past for other video editing products, enabling customers to seamlessly move in and out of Premiere Pro in their editing/processing workflows.
Harry and I are currently working out the details of a new Automatic Duck web site where our customers will be able to find all of the Automatic Duck products and related information, so please stay tuned!
- Wes Plate, co-founder of Automatic Duck
The strange thing is that the rest of their web site is currently down, so nothing is currently available from them, not their Final Cut Pro or AVID or After Effects Plug Ins. Now some of this is exciting, if Premiere gets AVID integration built in, and better interoperability between itself and other Adobe applications (like the new Color Correction program they just bought SpreedGrade), but not having Automatic Duck Available for FCP 7 or even FCP X right now is not a good thing at all, and may be what Adobe wants.
I actually own both FCP to AE, and AE Import and love their software if it is a bit expensive, but Premiere and AE are already integrated, though maybe they can integrate more 3rd party plug in support to the interchange.
Biscardi Creative actually has a great article on how great it could be within Adobe, especially to have greater abilities to move back and forth within the adobe suite. It is worth reading!