• Apple Final Cut Pro

  Motion won’t open up from FCP X?????

  Posted by Adam Berch on August 21, 2015 at 11:21 pm

  Hi,

  I’m trying to open up Motion through Final Cut Pro x so I can customize Transitions and Effects and save them in FCP X. When I right click on a transition and try to open it I’m Motion, It won’t.

  I made a new user and tried the same thing. It Worked in the new user.

  Why won’t it work when I’m using my regular account? Is there something I’m missing or a setting that has to be set?

  Thanks

  Jeff Kirkland replied 10 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Jeff Kirkland

  August 22, 2015 at 1:36 am

  Have you tried resetting the FCPX preferences? Hold down cmd+alt while launching FCPX.

  Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer | Southern Creative Media | Melbourne Australia
  http://www.southerncreative.com.au | G+: https://gplus.to/jeffkirkland | Twitter: @jeffkirkland
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  Adam Berch

  August 22, 2015 at 12:22 pm

  Yes I tried resetting Preferences, same result. This the message I keep getting when I try opening up a transition or effect in Motion from FCP X

  “There was a problem making a copy of _____. The file could not be written.”

  Here’s is what I tried. I made a new user, opened up FCP X and then went to a Transition, and it opened up in Motion. I then copied that folder over from the new user account into my regular user account. I pasted it in where I was suppose to. I then opened up FCP X and it was in there. I tried opening up that transition with Motion from FCP X and it worked fine.

  It seems like I cannot open a transition or effect from FCP X if it has not already been through motion.

  Do you have any idea what that would be?

  Thanks
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  Jeff Kirkland

  August 23, 2015 at 2:12 am

  No idea really, I vaguely remember someone having that problem years ago when they installed FCPX and FCP7 on the same machine but I don’t know how or if they solved it.

  Logically though, if it works for another user then it’s more likely an OS X issue than an FCPX or Motion issue.

  Have you tried booting into safe mode and repairing file permissions with Disk Utility?

  Slightly more drastic but In your shoes, if that didn’t work, my next step would be to delete FCPX and Motion reboot, then re-install.

  Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer | Southern Creative Media | Melbourne Australia
  http://www.southerncreative.com.au | G+: https://gplus.to/jeffkirkland | Twitter: @jeffkirkland

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