FCPX to Motion App

[Steve Connor]

Just about to give it a try, I’m in the middle of a project with some Motion work in!

Steve Connor
“FCPX Agitator”
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[Walter Soyka]

This is a step in the right direction, so many thanks and cheers to developer Alex King.

However, it’s still a long way off from the straightforward round-trip workflow of the classic “Send to Motion” command.

From FCPX Send To Motion App [link]:

Just export your project as .fcpxml (File > Export XML), drag it onto the dock icon, select the clip you’d like to export, and it’ll create and open a new Motion project, setup with the right length, clip, and frame rate. It’s not perfect, but it saves a lot of time setting up projects and copying information by hand.

And here’s a comment from the developer in the original linked article:

“What I tend to do is render a movie, copy the old clip in FCPX, drop on the new clip to replace and audition, and then paste effects from the old clip, so you get your audio/etc. changes back.”

Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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[Mark Dobson]

Well I’ve tried this app out unsuccessfully twice now and it’s all a bit of a faff.

Very similar to the workflow for using pluraleyes but at this stage without the result.

So I’ve exported the XML, dropped it on the App, selected a clip. It does open up in Motion but at this stage only as a still image.

I’ll have a play with it later again but probably just continue using my own clunky workaround of exporting a file and opening it up in Motion etc etc

But it is definitely a step in the right direction.