Adding custom Backgrounds

[Brendan Gibbons]

You CAN make your background clips appear in the FCP X Generators background area, though it’s probably not an ideal way of working.

By taking a clip into Motion and saving it, when you save it tick the box that says publish to fcp generator or words to that effect.

Set the category to Backgrounds in the pop-up menu that appears. They will now appear back in fcp in the backgrounds category.

As you already tried though, it’s probably best to import them into an event as required. Make sure it doesn’t copy the media on import. Then you can just leave all your stock video / gfx footage all in one place, and it will just create an alias.

By importing them into fcp as a generator via motion, it’s going to end up creating a whole lot of extra data in your…

user name / movies / motion templates / generator directory.

Hope that helps.

Cheers,

Brendan

[Georg J. kleinegees]

Best is to understand how FCP X is doing it’s Background-Thingie. Click on a Background-Template and choose “open a copy in Motion” Than you see, how this is done and can produce your own Backgrounds.

[Robbert-jan Van der does]

Hi David,

as far as I know the only option would be to use Motion 5 for this.
You could even group them and use Rigging to make a Pop-Up window from where you select a type from within a group. The same way it is done with the Backgrounds that came with FCPX.
If you have Motion 5 but have not yet dived into it I can highly recommend Mark Spencers’ tutorial on Rigging in Motion 5. You can find it here and there are some free preview too:

https://www.rippletraining.com/categories/final-cut-studio-courses/motion-training/rigging-and-publishing-for-fcpx.html

Kind regards,

Robbert-Jan van der Does
lighting cameraman/steadicam operator/editor

WISIWYG (What I See Is What You Get)

[David A fenton]

Ok great, thanks everyone.

-david

[David A fenton]

Good points, I appreciate it.