| Apple Final Cut Pro v7/v6: General Features | Supported? | Match in After Effects | Comments |
| Item Settings | |||
| Frame Rate | Supported | ||
| Pixel Aspect Ratio | Supported | Media PAR set to composition PAR | |
| Field Dominance | Supported | If media FD differs from sequence FD, Final Cut automatically applies Shift Fields | |
| Audio Sample Rate | Supported | ||
| In/Out points | Supported | ||
| Start/End points | Supported | Start frame may be one frame later in AE if layer is time-remapped | |
| Duration | Supported | Timecode will end one frame before timecode in FCP | |
| Frame Blending | Supported | ||
| Enabled States (Clips) | Supported | All clips are transferred | |
| Enabled States (Tracks) **NEW | Supported | All clips in a Final Cut disabled track become disabled in AE | |
| Enabled States (Effects) | Supported | Only enabled filters are transferred | |
| Clip Labels | Supported | Only Label 2 supported | |
| Clip Comments | Supported | Comments appear on the footage, not on the layer | |
| Clip Markers | Supported | Layer Markers | |
| Composite Modes | |||
| Normal | Supported | Normal | |
| Add | Supported | Add | |
| Subtract | Supported | Classic Difference | Subtract in CS5 |
| Difference | Supported | Classic Difference | |
| Multiply | Supported | Multiply | |
| Screen | Supported | Screen | |
| Overlay | Supported | Overlay | |
| Hard Light | Supported | Hard Light | |
| Soft Light | Supported | Soft Light | |
| Darken | Supported | Darken | |
| Lighten | Supported | Lighten | |
| Travel Matte - Alpha | Supported | Track Matte | Not Supported in CS5 |
| Travel Matte - Luma | Supported | Track Matte | Not Supported in CS5 |
| Alpha | |||
| None/Ignore | Supported | Alpha settings grayed out or Ignore checked in media's Interpret Footage | |
| White | Supported | Premult | |
| Black | Supported | Premult | |
| Straight | Supported | Premult | |
| Reverse Alpha | Supported | Invert Alpha checked in media's Interpret Footage | |
| Sequence/Composition Settings | |||
| Width/Height | Supported | ||
| Pixel Aspect Ratio | Supported | Sometimes the PAR will need to be changed to Square by the user to correct for an AE host error | |
| Field Dominance | Not Supported | ||
| Frame Rate | Supported | ||
| Sequence Markers | Supported | Composition Markers | |
| Sequences Comments & Labels | Not Supported | ||
| Other | |||
| Bins (Folders of clips or individual clips) | Supported | Folders | |
| Projects | Supported | ||
| Photoshop files | Supported | Position may be incorrect if the image has transparent background / alpha channel | |
| Freeze Frames | Supported | Time Remapping Hold Keyframe applied; Extra keyframe appears at or after the end of the layer | |
| Sub-clips | Supported | Normal layers | |
| Nested Sequences | Supported | Nested compositions | |
| MultiCam | Supported | Nested compositions | |
| Slip | Supported | Slip | |
| Slide | Supported | Slide | |
| XML Drag & Drop | Supported | Not Supported in CS5 | |