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Send to Motion and Back again, and again
I built up an edited section, made a copy of that section to a new timeline, sent to Motion, made cool stuff, then placed the final motion file on my FCP timeline and rendered. Great. Except client wants to change out two of the shots. How can I revise the layered FCP timeline, update the new layers in Motion and then come back to FCP?
Am I correct in thinking that From FCP to Motion, and back to FCP is as far as you can go?
Surely I dont have to start over again everytime…
What is the proper workflow?Help please?
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Right click the clip on the timeline and select OPEN IN MOTION.
DRW
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Thanks, but I think we are a little off track as to what my goal is.
I want to open the Motion Clip in FC replace one of the layers with another video clip, then Right Click and open in Motion to tweak.Imagine you stacked 10 video clips in FCP, then sent to Motion built an elaborate effect, then the client says chang out shot 5.
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Make the change in Motion.
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right click, “open in editor”
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right click, “open in editor”
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Ok, that explains it. Or put another way, FCP to Motion is a one shot deal.
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No, you send it back to Motion, but you want to keep everything in tact (all of your fabulous effects) so when you send it back, swap out ‘track 5’ and keep all the effects. it’s not a one shot deal. If you were to set up all the tracks again, and send that to motion, you will have lost all the cool effects you did and have to start over.
make sense?
Jeremy
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Thanks Jeremy, but I need to swap out Track 5 in Motion correct?
I think the pain is that I havent yet found the way to copy all parameters from one layer and past them onto another in Motion. -
[Dan Powers] “Thanks Jeremy, but I need to swap out Track 5 in Motion correct?”
yes from fcp you have your motion project. First, export a refrence movie of the new track 5, then send your motion content to motion. Within motion import your refernce movie, place it in the same container as the ‘old’ track. Drag the parameters from the old one into the new and then turn off the visibility of the old track 5 movie.
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Easier than that. Pop the project open in motion. IN the file browser naviagate to the clip you want to be the new “track 5 ” clip. In the layer menu flip open the layer that has the old “track 5” clip Highlight the old track 5 clip and from he browser drag the new clip directly ontop of the old clip and a little arrow icon should pop up. This will replace the media and leave all your effects. Then hold option while you drag on the clip in the timeline till you get the desired inpoint of the clip (same as a roll edit in FCP). If the clip is too long to roll through, export a reference file out of FCP and do the same as above.
-mattyc
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