Green when rendering from motion

[Matt Callac]

Is the entire screen solid green? or is it tinting everything green?
i had a crazy green rendering problem in motion a couple years ago.

In motion if you export using the same settings as your timeline in FCP is set to…you won’t need to render.

-mattyc

[Sarah Hollender]

It is actually two shades of green. Two completely solid rectangles.

[Matt Callac]

never seen that before.

try either
Rendering your quicktime out of motion with the same settings that your fcp timeline is set to

or

Pulling the motion file directly onto the FCP timeline and rendering.

-mattyc

[Sarah Hollender]

Hi Matt –

Right now it is saved on my desktop (out of motion) and I do drag it to the FCP timeline. When I scan through it, it seems like it will play fine. But then doesn’t when I render. I am just learning motion – so don’t know how to check the settings on that…but assumed that FCP would render it if I can see something when I go frame by frame on my timeline and can see it?

[Matt Callac]

Are you talking about a quicktime file? or the actual motion procject?
I’m slightly confused.

In Motion Go into the edit menu and select project properties. Select whatever preset you need. ie…if you are working in FCP with NTSC DV footage…. Select the NTSC DV preset from the pulldown.

If you are trying to Export a quicktime movie out of Motion. Then go to File>Export…. It should be defaulted to quicktime movie….click the option button next to it. Then from the Compression pulldonw menu select whatever compression type your working with in FCP…if you’re usind DV select DV. Then export.

If you are tying to pull the motion file into FCP either import it in final cut…or while in motion grab the little file icon at the top of the porject file in the interface then hold cmnd (the apple key) and hit tab till you are back into fcp…then drop the file where you want it.

[Ben Pirouet]

There are two reasons why i’ve had Motion exports in FCP go green on me

1) The ‘Scratch Disk’ isn’t set up correctly or is low on space. Bizarrely occasionally when i’d had clips go green on me, just changing the Scratch Disk settings in ‘System Settings’ fixes that for me.

2) The more common reason it’s happened to me is because in the project properties in ‘Motion’, the Bit Depth was set to 16 or 32 bit (float). Switching back to 8 bit usually cures that for me. When i first started using ‘Motion’ i assumed that the highest bit depth was obviously the best and would work the best. Not true 🙂

Hope one of these helps 🙂

[Theresa Bucci]

Have you figured out how to fix this problem? I think I am having the same problem with the green blocks as you.

Every time I try to export my sequence from Final Cut Pro, every motion file I have turns into green blocks within the movie.

This used to also happen when I rendered my video, but I changed settings and fixed it.

tess

[Thomas Frank]

I also get the magic green effect.
In my case only the imported footage turns green all elements that where made in Motion appear normal.
But it only turns green when I use the Best Render option and appears to happen only with Apple ProRes footage.

hmmm Apple own Codec does not work with Apple Motion???

[Phil Hollins]

Having only just been inflicted with the green screen misery I tried both your suggestions but neither worked.
My MacBook Pro at home doesn’t have the same problem. At work the only difference is that we have a BlackMagic video card.
Eventually I took the last poster’s suggestion that it was Apple Pro Res that was at fault. So I changed the FCP Sequence settings’ codec to Photo JPEG. This solved the problem.
It it very surprising that Apple’s own codec should not work with its own programs.

MacPro 10.5.5
FCS 2 (FCP 6.06 + Motion 3.02)
BlackMagic Multibridge Pro

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MacBook Pro 2.16GHz Core Duo (not Core 2 Duo!)
Same software