2016 – Video in drop zones in FCP X generator still an issue for you?

[Bret Williams]

I get the last frame if it doesn’t work. If a clip isn’t long enough, then it automatically freezes the last frame. So it’s related to that.

Where you click on the clip gets mapped to the first frame of the drop zone, which is often not even visible in the template.

But lately that concept seems to have been thrown out the window, even though Motion and X haven’t been updated. I get the freeze quite a bit, even on my own designs were I know it shouldn’t be an issue.

[Deyson Ortiz]

Hello and good day.

This is a bug that got introduced into Motion and FCPX. The workaround I had found until it works well again is this: https://support.motion-master-templates.com/article/13-syncing-video-inside-a-drop-zone

Please let me know if this helps and have an amazing day! 🙂

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[Tangier Clarke]

I tried my template again this time in another FCP x project and it seemed to work. The only difference is that I made sure to choose the first frame of the video in the browser for the drop zone. It played well..HOWEVER….

Now that that seems to be solved, the audio doesn’t play from the video.

Tangier

[Mark Spencer]

Audio does not carry over with Motion templates nor for drop zone content. You need to do an audio-only connect edit and match it up.

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Mark Spencer
Freelance Producer/Editor/Motion Graphics Artist
Apple-certified Master Trainer
Author, Motion 4 from Peachpit Press
https://www.applemotion.net