Motion Generator Limiting Duration

[Robin S. kurz]

Then you’ll need to use something other than a generator, since that’s their nature and the whole point behind them. They are resolution and time independent, no matter what. Unless there’s a setting/option that I’m not aware of.

[Alex Gollner]

You can’t do anything in Motion to stop an editor changing the duration of a generator in Final Cut. You can however make sure it only shows content for 4 seconds or less – however much the editor increases the duration of the generator in the timeline.

Set up the Motion generator to be 4 seconds long and 1 frame.
Create your content so its duration is 4 seconds long
Deselect everything, go to the last empty frame
Set a marker: Mark > Markers > Set Mark
Choose Mark > Markers > Edit Marker
Change the new marker’s Type to ‘Build In – Mandatory’

Now when you use this generator in Final Cut, it won’t scale any of your work in time – all behaviours and animations and duration will be fixed to 4 seconds and then vanish – if you make sure no content is visible in that last frame.

@Alex4D

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