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Organizing changed Motion templates?
Hello,
I wonder how other manage their published Motion templates in Final Cut. I saw that deleting a published template makes projects using that template say the, e.g., transition can’t be referenced. As far as I can see this would also happen when I make (drastic?) changes to templates. I was really hoping that FCPX would embed the templates in the project.
So the only solution to keeping old projects intact is to keep the templates intact. Is that correct?How do you handle “old projects”? Do you create copies of older templates before making adjustments to published parameters or colors or …?
Would love to hear your input.
Thanks,
Andreas -
3 Replies
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You should check out the Motion Template Tool from Spherico.
It will help you make backups of your Templates, among other things.
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools/
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You also may just download the manual of MTT.
MTT manualIt explains (hopefully) quite well how templates are working with FCPX.
-Andreas
Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools -
Thanks, Jeremy. Again great help. I read Motion Template Tool in my mails before my flight, so I downloaded the manual and read it on the way to Stuttgart. I didn’t know MTT can do these things.
[Andreas Kiel] “You also may just download the manual of MTT.
It explains (hopefully) quite well how templates are working with FCPX.”
I knew how templates work. I figured even out that FCPX stores the themes in a separate XML file, but I still learned a ton of new things. The versioning looks awesome! Guess I’m going to make use of that feature heavily. Need to try my theories more thoroughly though.
Thanks to the man in Karlsruhe and namesake. 😉
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