• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Motion in FCP 7 crashing

  Posted by Ken Pugh on December 17, 2009 at 5:08 pm

  I’ve recently started using Motion for my titles in place of the seemingly discontinued Live Type. But I’ve discovered if I place unrendered motion projects in my FCP timeline, as I did with the Live Type workflow, FCP crashes when I try and drag the play head – like every few minutes….. is this a common experience with Motion, a bug, or possibly my system set up/workflow I wonder… any other Motion experiences like this?

  The ‘crash’ involves FCP suddenly disappearing (no freeze, no Pizza – just gone)

  My workflow: construct title in Motion – save a motn file – drag the file direct into FCP – render when ready. I do it this way (without the intermediate render step prior to FCP import) as it means I can quickly adjust titles by right clicking on the motion project in the FCP timeline, adjusting in Motion, then saving. No need to constantly re-render and re-import.

  This worked fine with Live Type.

  I should add that once the motn file is rendered in FCP there is no problem.

  Thanks,

  Ken.

  FCP7 (clean instal, new drive)
  Snow Leopard
  MacPro 3.2 8 core 8 megs RAM
  Internal SATA drives (4×2 gig)

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