FCP7 and Motion 5

[Alan Mccormick]

Stephen, I totally agree with you for obvious reasons but I was just showing a work around until hopefully the round-tripping is brought back.

Alan

Regards

Alan

[Ken Pugh]

Motion 5 looks great – but if you can’t send media from FCP7 and you cant import Motion 5 projects into FCP7 then its just like any other app. As a standalone sure its great, but I’m not a power user – I like to use the stabilisation and tracking features, and the titling (RIP Livetype) I use the scaling functions, PIP that kind of stuff, things FCP can’t do so well and things that are not so complex I’d use AE (only ‘cos I know it best) – so personally I’ll unfortunately have to stick with Motion 4 and the ability to roundtrip – it’s a massive timesaver.

Best,

Ken.

[Stephen Smith]

[Alan]
I was just showing a work around until hopefully the round-tripping is brought back.

I sure hope it does.

Stephen Smith
Utah Video Productions

Check out my Motion Training DVD

Check out my Motion Tutorials

[Mark Spencer]

I agree that the roundtripping is a huge hole, but when you say it is a standalone app you are missing a major change in how Motion is being used in FCP X. Every single title, transition, effect, and generator in FCP X – either the hundreds of existing ones available in FCP X’s effects browsers, or ONES YOU MODIFY OR CREATE – are Motion projects. Motion, besides being a great standalone motion graphics app (heck new keyer alone is worth the $50 IMHO), is now the development platform for creating fx for FCP X. That is a huge deal because it gives everyone access to creating titles, transition, and effects for FCP X – and the rigging and publishing features extend that capability even further.

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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

[Matt Galuszewski]

Mark,

I agree that the Motion FX and Transitions are great. Creating a Motion FX with published drop shadow controls was the only way I could see to add a drop shadow to a Chroma Key that I needed to do in FCP. I didn’t want to do the key in motion because I wanted the flexibility to trim and reposition the clip on the timeline.

Anyway I am sure you were aware that was possible.

I am here to ask, “Do you have to create the Motion FX project with the same frame size and frame rate as the FCP project it is intended to be used with” also “Does the duration matter in the Motion FX project”

These are all questions I could possibly answer by experimenting or reading the manual but am more than happy to receive a reply saying it is covered in your tutorials.

Regards

[Mark Spencer]

Matt,

In Motion 5, you have the capability to create Display Aspect Ratio Snapshots,or DARS – for example, create a 16-9 first, then make a 4:3 version. You adjust all your elements for each DARS as needed, and they are stored in that snapshot.

In FCP X, when you add the Motion project to a project, it will then automatically adjust for that DAR.

Duration of Motion projects do matter to some extent but they are managed mostly by build in, build out, and loop markers, and for Transitions, an FCP override option.

And yes, all these subjects are covered in my tutorial – specifically the one on Rigging and Publishing in Motion 5.

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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