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Final cut pro don’t want to open motion file
What to do when Final cut pro don’t want to open motion files. I have several project files with Motion clips. and the FCP crashes every time I try to open them. Can someone help?
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7 Replies
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Hi Francisco,
Export the stuff directly from Motion and bring it to FC.
Cheers,
rafael -
As keen as Apple are to suggest that you can drop Motion files directly onto a FCP timeline, in practice it is slow, unreliable and generally to be avoided. Render them out from Motion as ProRes 4444, the default now I think, and drop them straight onto your FCP timeline – if this is ProRes too, no rendering will be required.
Avoid all .motn files in FCP wherever possible – it’s just another area where FCP needs a massive overhaul.
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Hello Rafael: Nothing works. FCP doesn’t want to open any Motion files. Not even new ones. At this point, will you recommend to uninstall and install the suite again?
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Hello Ben: Nothing works. FCP doesn’t want to open any Motion files. Not even new ones. At this point, will you recommend to uninstall and install the suite again?
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No Francisco. Don’t break your head and fallow Ben advice.
Export a self-contained movie frm Motion and import to FC.
The round trip FC-Motion-FC never had worked properly.
rafael -
Does that mean that I have lost the FCP projects that have been working for the last four weeks?
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Why should mean that?
You take the file from Motion and you import to the FCP projects where you have been working for the last four weeks.
rafael
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