Motion and El Capitan

[Jan Maslow]

Thank you Robin. Good to hear.

Jan

[Derek Smith]

Motion in FCP7 does not work on upgrading to El Capitan !

[Derek Smith]

Everything else works but
It is fairly common knowledge that Motion 4 in FCP 7 does not work with El Capitan , I like a lot of other people mistakenly downloaded it without knowing so I am not very pleased.

[Derek Smith]

Sadly some of us can’t afford anything else !

[Derek Smith]

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[Jan Maslow]

Thank you Derek. Fortunately, I’m using Motion 5.

[David Cooke]

We are on the last version of Yosemite and Motion 5 has always caused us troubles when opening. Usually takes at least 2 attempts and then finally after 3 or so minutes opens. Today, I even called Apple support. They claim that moving to “El Capitan” would give a better than 50% chance of improving all application launches. But it could also slow down application launches they said. We’ve got an i7 with 32gigram, and I know that Motion is not getting “Ram Starved”. Very dissappointing because I use Motion for some things that are just lightyears ahead of and easier than After Effects. Posted this same issue over a year ago and I’ll now be searching thru the Creative Cow Archives because I did find a workaround thanks to the loyal members of Creative Cow!

D’s Video

[David Cooke]

Mark Spencer from Ripple Training answered the Motion 5 launching issue for me 6 months ago in this same forward. Holding down the “Option” and “Command” keys while launching Motion, trashes the Preferences.
That worked again for me today, so evidently, this is a regular occurrence you must do like performing periodic. maintanance on the program when laucnhing.

D’s Video

[Bret Williams]

You might want it to get your FCP X sequence into Motion 5. It is the only way to export a FCP X sequence to Motion 5 and it works quite well. XML your sequence to FCP 7 utilizing XtoCC app. Then open in 7 and use send to motion to create a Moton 4 version of the sequence. Then open that project in Motion 5. If you need to get a sequence to Motion 5, that’s really the only way to do it.

[Robin S. kurz]

[Bret Williams] “If you need to get a sequence to Motion 5, that’s really the only way to do it.”

I beg to differ, since that strikes me as an awfully long way around for an otherwise fairly nominal task. Simply exporting the section of the timeline that you want to use in the Motion project and using THAT as the basis for a new project, then simply publishing it as a generator to FCP X (easy right-click access after that) would be one way. If just a single clip, then hitting ⇧⌘R and using the clip that is shown as the basis (via “Create Project from File” that is) would be another. Certainly much much less convoluted with the exact same result.

– RK

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