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  No audio in Motion project planced into FCP timeline

  Posted by Andrew Wilson on January 14, 2011 at 7:47 pm

  Could someone please tell me if this is normal or a known bug:

  I’m working on an animation in Motion that has some audio associated with it. When it play it, I can hear the audio. When I export a self-contained rendered file out of Motion, the audio comes into FCP no problem.

  BUT – if I place the Motion project file into a FCP timeline… no audio. Even the browser in FCP says there’s no audio associated with the clip.

  I much prefer placing project files into the timeline to take advantage of roundtripping so is this normal that the audio doesn’t come with a placed Motion project file?

  Working on Motion 4 with FCS3

  Ann Clark replied 15 years, 7 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Stephen Smith

  January 14, 2011 at 8:02 pm

  This is normal. Sorry. I think the idea is this…Motion is a graphics program and it is easier to add SFX and music in FCP.

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  Ann Clark

  January 22, 2011 at 2:08 am

  Dunno if this helps, but have you tried exporting your Motion sequence as a Quicktime, then bringing it into FCP? I realize this reduces your flexibility when you’re bouncing between the two programs, but I find that if audio timing is critical, e.g., SFX are timed to the action, that creating video in Motion and then finishing the audio in FCP does get a bit clumsy at times.

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