FCP round tripping

[Stephen Smith]

By Export do you mean “Send To”? If so, the Chroma Keyer filter is not available in Motion. You can try Motion’s Primatte Keyer but it doesn’t work well all the time. I would export out your keyed clip as a Quick Time Movie set to Animation. Be sure to set the color to Millions +. Also, make sure the clip is un-rendered when you export it. Hope this helps.

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[Stephen Smith]

Sorry, I posted the same thing twice and can’t delete this post.

[Andre Dahlman]

Thanks for the response.

Let me make sure i understand you – and yes, i mean “Send To”

You’re saying that Motion will not respect the chroma key filer because it doesn’t have that specific type of chroma filter within Motion. Ergo, I should export a keyed out sequence in FCP as a Quicktime Ref file. Then open that file in Motion?

Should work, but I lose some flexibility by locking all my tracks down one when I export the FCP sequence. Still, seems like a better alternative then rekeying everything within Motion.

Thanks for the tip.

[Stephen Smith]

Sorry for the bad news. I really hope that is something that is fixed in the next version of Motion. So I would make sure the clip I want to export is not rendered. Mark an In and Out point for the clip. Go to File, Export, Using Quick Time Conversion. Format set to: QuickTime Movie. Then Click on Options and set the Compression Type to: Animation. Make sure Depth is set to Millions of Colors +. Then re-import and place on top of the original clip. Disable the original clip and round trip as planed. Hope this helps.

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[Arnie Schlissel]

FCP does not send filters to Motion. At all. Ever.

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[Jason Diebler]

[Arnie Schlissel] “FCP does not send filters to Motion. At all. Ever.”

Not entirely true. The FCP “Smoothcam” filter does ride along for the roundtrip and becomes the “Stabilize” filter. I believe there is one other FCP filter that can be sent to Motion, but can’t think of it off the top of my head.

So to clarify, almost all FCP filters do not get sent to Motion.