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How to tell Final Cut 6 to “send to” Motion 3 instead of Motion 5
Sorry if this has been posted here before, but I’m running Final Cut 6, with both Motion 5 and Motion 3 installed on my machine. They both play nicely for the most part, and I’m just keeping Motion 3 around to roundtrip from Final Cut.
The only thing that doesn’t seem to work is as soon as Motion 5 is installed, Final Cut 6 wants to use it as the “send to” option when exporting footage to Motion from the timeline. Is there any way to edit a preference file somewhere to tell Final Cut to use Motion 3 instead? The roundtripping option to Motion 5 results in too many bugs to be useful (for example, the footage doesn’t actually appear in Motion, though its layers do appear). Any help around this would be great.
Thanks,
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Best solution I’ve found is to rename the Motion 5 application – e.g., “MotionX”
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Mark Spencer
Freelance Producer/Editor/Motion Graphics Artist
Apple-certified Master Trainer
Author, Motion 4 from Peachpit Press
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Yep, that totally did it. I was trying to find where the filetypes were associated, but it looks like Final Cut really is just trolling for strings matching “Motion”. At least it works.
Thanks Mark!
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I found that changing the default open with application to an older version of motion sorted that problem.
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