Motion 5. Quicklook: Gone?

[Mark Spencer]

The paradigm has changed. You now “publish” your Motion projects to Final Cut Pro, and depending on what type of project it is – title, transition, effect or generator – it will show up in the appropriate Browser in FCP X.
Currently no ability to send video clips to Motion in FCP X.

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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

[Stefan Buhrmester]

Hey Mark…

Sorry, I fail to understand how the addition of Publishing as Generators, Transitions, etc, serves as an argument for removing the functionality to use motion files as media sources. It does not make any sense. Of course I like the ADDITIONAL publishing functionality, but not at the cost of removing standard importing functionality.

Say you created an image in illustrator and want to import it to photoshop for final retouches. But Adobe removes the functionality to import the image. Instead, you need to “Publish” the image you created to a global library, that is stored in an arbitrary location on your hard disk. It would be the same bull*hit.

[Mark Spencer]

Oh, believe me, I’m not making any excuses for it – I think you should be able to import Motion projects to the Event library, and round-trip clips – I’m just telling you a way that you *can* get your Motion 5 projects in FCP X.

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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

[Stefan Buhrmester]

Ah, alright then. It seemed to me as if you were defending the missing functionality 🙂

[Stephen Smith]

Wait, in FCPX you can not send a clip to Motion?

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[Stefan Buhrmester]

Nope. You can’t. You cannot even import a motion file into your bin (or event library).

[Mark Spencer]

That is correct, you cannot send clips from FCP X to Motion.

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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

[Dan Davis]

I downloaded 5 last night had a look (I’ve been using motion for ages) and Zapped it.
Rubbish as it is now.

[Mark Spencer]

You need to *Publish* your Motion projects for them to appear in the correct Browser in FCP X.

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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

[Alan Mccormick]

[Stefan Buhrmester] “I’m unable to quicklook motion files in the finder after replacing Motion 4 with Motion 5. Is that an issue on my side? Is it working for you?

Also: WTF APPLE? Where is send-to-motion and .motn clip import in FCPX???”

I am able to quicklook motion files in Finder after installing Motion 5 – I do have Motion 4 on the same Machine though, no idea if that is the difference

Alan