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[Steve Connor] “[Tony West] “I don’t “want” to have to send the whole section over to Motion while ding this. I want to send the template over there. It’s “faster””
Yep, Motion is now a great titling tool within FCPX and perhaps for many that’s all the interaction it needs
“It’s not all the interaction that “I” need. I was just responding to a specific point in this thread.
I often use Motion for far more complicated things than titles, I just start those sections in Motion to begin with.
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[Herb Sevush] “I know that Motion rigging works very well in that one direction”
I wouldn’t call that one direction myself. It starts in X, goes to Motion, gets changed and sent back to X.
That seems like two directions to me.[Herb Sevush] “but what if you had a shot of a WS of a guy under an umbrella and you wanted to create artificial rain and that on a cut to a CU turns to snow.”
I would bring the WS shot and the CU into Motion to begin with and ad the rain on one and the snow on the other, then bring those into the X
I just like to start in Motion. I’m not opposed to having a send to Motion feature though. I just enjoy using Motion so much I’m going to use it without that feature anyway.
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[Tony West] ” I just enjoy using Motion so much I’m going to use it without that feature anyway.”
Me too!
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[Tony West] “I would bring the WS shot and the CU into Motion to begin with and ad the rain on one and the snow on the other, then bring those into the X”
Yes, you could write the names of each clip down on a post it, then enter the in and out points on that same slip of paper. Then open Motion and manually set the project to the correct format and then go to properties and enter the correct duration, then find and import the 2 clips, set up their in and outpoints and place them on the correct layers and then create the effects. After that you can go to the export setup and make sure your exporting to the correct format and once exported go back to FCPX and import the clip.
Or you could hit “send to motion.”
Which would you prefer?
Herb Sevush
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[Tony West] “It starts in X, goes to Motion, gets changed and sent back to X.
That seems like two directions to me.”Exactly. No idea how one could consider the exchange one-way by any stretch.
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[Herb Sevush] “Or you could hit “send to motion.”
Which would you prefer?
“I would prefer “send to Motion”
I would also prefer not to do those extra steps you mentioned. I was saying “before” those shots hit the timeline in X
I would bring them into Motion “first”Those effects on those shots would be the first thing that I did to the footage for that section.
I might be an oddball but here is my list
The first thing that I would like in Motion would be the “Skimmer” I don’t like old school moving that playhead around after working in X
Send to Motion only helps me at the beginning and end. The “Skimmer” helps me the entire time I’m working on the shots. Put the “blank” Skimmer in there Apple!Second, X has all these really cool backgrounds that I love to build Motion graphics over. I want all of those in Motion also. I don’t want to have to export those out of X
Then third I would like Send to Motion, because as Jeremy said, sometimes my timing get’s a little off in the timeline.
None of these are a deal breaking for me. I love Motion and X
But I would love them even more with those 3 things.
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[Tony West] “I would also prefer not to do those extra steps you mentioned. I was saying “before” those shots hit the timeline in X. I would bring them into Motion “first””
Or simply hit ⌘⇧R with the timeline clip selected and make a Motion project from the clip from there. Done. Publish to FCP and switch back and forth at will with a simple right-click or ⌘Tab. So… I guess someone needs to explain that thing about “not two-way” again? But then actually using the products has been know to work wonders. 😀
[Tony West] “X has all these really cool backgrounds that I love to build Motion graphics over.”
You realize of course, that all of those backgrounds are in fact Motion projects, right?
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[Robin S. Kurz] “Or simply hit ⌘⇧R with the timeline clip selected and make a Motion project from the clip from there.”
Does this preserve the in-out points and can this be done for multiple timeline clips being sent to one motion project, preserving their spatial relationship to each other? If so, then you are correct, you don’t need a “send” feature.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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Why should you even care? You don’t even USE either of them, let alone together. 😀
Or is this just part of the usual long-tooth crusade? Because in that case… oh never mind.
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[Herb Sevush] “Does this preserve the in-out points and can this be done for multiple timeline clips being sent to one motion project, preserving their spatial relationship to each other? “
No. Cmd+Shift+R is just the keyboard shortcut for Reveal in Finder.
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Michael Hancock
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