• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Basic FCP / Motion roundtripping workflow

  Posted by Adam Smith on August 2, 2009 at 5:43 am

  Ok… I’ve been using FCP on and off for about a year, and although I have mostly avoided the situation, I’m getting to the point here where I KNOW there should be some “good” (familiar, convenient) way to use Final Cut and Motion. This is a really basic workflow issue that I haven’t come up with a solution for.

  I’ve been on an Avid using the Boris RED plugin for about 9 years now and I’m pretty happy with the workflow. Stack up tracks in the Avid timeline, apply Boris on or above the top track. Launch Boris and everthing’s there… composite and effect my heart out, exit back to Avid to render. The effect is still on the top track, and replacing or adjusting one of the clips below is as easy as making the change and re-rendering.

  Seems like Motion should work similarly, but Send To Motion returns me to a timeline where all my source tracks are gone – the motion project has replaced that chunk of my sequence. What gives??

  Am I supposed to make duplicate timelines every time I wish to use Motion? What if I want to replace a source clip or re-time something? This seems crazy convenient the first time around, but revisions are a nightmare.

  Thanks for any hints,

  -Adam

  < edit - oops, I could swear I was posting this on the FCP Basics forum. >

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