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FCPX to Motion App
Well hot on the heels of Steve Connors reply to Oliver Peters recent Motion post comes news of this free app.
https://www.fcp.co/final-cut-pro/news/743-now-you-can-send-clips-from-final-cut-pro-x-to-motion
Not tried it yet
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Just about to give it a try, I’m in the middle of a project with some Motion work in!
Steve Connor
“FCPX Agitator”
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This is a step in the right direction, so many thanks and cheers to developer Alex King.
However, it’s still a long way off from the straightforward round-trip workflow of the classic “Send to Motion” command.
From FCPX Send To Motion App [link]:
Just export your project as .fcpxml (File > Export XML), drag it onto the dock icon, select the clip you’d like to export, and it’ll create and open a new Motion project, setup with the right length, clip, and frame rate. It’s not perfect, but it saves a lot of time setting up projects and copying information by hand.
And here’s a comment from the developer in the original linked article:
“What I tend to do is render a movie, copy the old clip in FCPX, drop on the new clip to replace and audition, and then paste effects from the old clip, so you get your audio/etc. changes back.”
Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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Well I’ve tried this app out unsuccessfully twice now and it’s all a bit of a faff.
Very similar to the workflow for using pluraleyes but at this stage without the result.
So I’ve exported the XML, dropped it on the App, selected a clip. It does open up in Motion but at this stage only as a still image.
I’ll have a play with it later again but probably just continue using my own clunky workaround of exporting a file and opening it up in Motion etc etc
But it is definitely a step in the right direction.
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