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What do you want from Motion?
In terms of transitions, generators, motion, compressor, and how they work with FCPX, I’d like to know what you would like added to the default lineup of Motion content in FCPX.
Things we want are:
- Embedding audio in a custom motion generator so you can build a bars/tone generator easily. Heck, just make a b&t generator!
- Color In-Out (for simple dips to color as a generator – we have this custom made and use it often.
- More lens flare transitions and better flare options
- 3D text
- Good comedy transitions, pushes, cross zooms, etc. We have these custom made but it’d be great if they were built in, right?
- Right click on a transition, generator, or effect and select ‘add to favorites’ as an option, which would then create a top level ‘Favorites’ theme.
- And of course, ‘Send to motion’.
- More and better transitions, glows, etc.
- It’s a pipe dream, but I’d love an ‘import After Effects project’ option!
If you could ask the Motion team for anything, what would it be? What transitions and things like that are you paying for that you wish were built in? Please, be specific.
Thanks!
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[John Davidson] “And of course, ‘Send to motion’.”
This.
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Check out mObject if you want 3D text.
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Great list, John. I especially would love to see an embedded audio option. It would make gfx package building so much better. I don’t even need a B&T generator, just the ability to make one with embedded tone.
One of the biggest things I’ve wanted from Motion is a 3D paint stroke.
Also, I would love to be able to replicate a 3D element like a 3D paint stroke or particle emitter.
I would like clones to maintain any 3D properties. For example, if you create a 3D particle emitter or replicator to mimic a 3D paint stroke (there it is again), and then clone that layer, I’d like the clone to be able to react in 3D space the same.
A better RAM preview. One that doesn’t max out to the gfx card memory and will allow a preview of an entire project even if it’s complicated.
Project nesting. Being able to place one project inside another as a kind of precomp.
A way for users to create custom behavior simulations. Wouldn’t it be great if enterprising users could script custom behaviors that anyone could use?
As far as Motion/FCPX collaboration…
A menu option in the inspector to save a group of effects applied to a clip as a single group. So if you have a color effect, blur, texture filter all combining on one clip, FCPX can group them (and their parameter values) into a single effect that can be saved to the favorites theme you suggested and applied as one to other clips in other projects as needed.
A default option to restrict whether or not a transition applied to a top level clip affects clips below. In other words, if you apply a flip transition to a title, that you can choose for the effect to only affect the title and not any clips below it if you so desire.
An individual default transition length. It would work like this. Right-click a transition in the effects browser and select “Choose Transition Length”, and then type in what you want in frames. That default length is saved for that transition only. Different transitions can have different default lengths.
Better UI tools for creating On Screen Controls for custom effects.
Multiple transition/filter/generator shortcuts similar to the favorites folder in FCP7.
Most of these are probably pipe dreams, but you asked. I don’t want any new transition or effect content really. Most of that default stuff is useless or else it’ll become ubiquitous when everyone and their dog starts using it.
Andy
https://www.timesavertutorials.com
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Thanks. We’re focusing on things we want Motion to do natively in coordination with FCPX right out of the box without plugins.
For example, say you make a fake transition in FCPX where one clip zooms in as another zooms out using scale and rotation. You have to build these using inspector/scale/rotation. How could would it be if you could range tool that home built ‘transition’, and then have an option to ‘save keyframe data as motion transition template’. That would be pretty cool!
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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That’s a good list. You can sort of build multiple motion combo effects as a single FCPX effect, but it would sure be awesome/easy if you could do it right in FCPX. When I find I need one of those motion transitions, by the time you open motion, build it, test it, realize you screwed something up, go back, republish it, etc., you’ve forgotten what you were doing in the edit in the first place!
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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[Bob Woodhead] “[John Davidson] “And of course, ‘Send to motion’.”
This.”
Yep!
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
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That
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Essentially, send to motion.
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Speaking of motion, Anyone know if the original combustion still part of the motion project?
Ricardo Marty
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Built in adjustment layer so I don’t have to remember which 3rd party one I used when reconnecting in another system.
Michael Garber
5th Wall – a post production company
Blog: GARBERSHOP
My Moviola Webinar on Cutting News in FCP X
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