Send to Motion….. Could Automatic Duck tackle this?

[Roger Bolton]

We’ve also looked at this. As others have said the real issue is that the motion project format is undocumented and motion has no ability to import FCPXML (why that is makes no sense to me).
Having said that to just have a limited send to motion where the clip timings and layering came across into a motion project is probably doable for a developer. Select the clips you want -> export XML -> drag and drop XML into an app which creates a motion project. Getting it to work with any rotation, keyframes, effects etc you’ve already applied inside FCP X would be a much much harder problem and prone to breaking every time Apple updates something.

All they need to do is provide motion the ability to read FCPXML, and the ability for a motion project anywhere on the HD to be dropped onto the FCP timeline. Problem solved, but Apple needs to do this, not a third party.

[Bret Williams]

Today I have the issue after the El Cap update. I’ve copied over all my plugins and custom plugs, but one lower 3rd, a custom version of a motionvfx plug isn’t relinking. Rebuilding all of them will really suck and the client has a tiny update. I did the prudent thing and updated after the project was complete. My custom title refuses to acknowledge. Still says it’s missing. Of course it doesn’t give the file path. But I have a backup of my template folder from yosemite and I put it right back where it was. But nada. Argh!

[Charlie Austin]

[Bret Williams] “My custom title refuses to acknowledge. Still says it’s missing. Of course it doesn’t give the file path.”

Did you reinstall the motionvfx plugin? 10.11 made some folder path changes and I know mVFX was one of the plugins affected. So your custom X plugin may be in the right place, but the stuff in the OS that’s needed for it to work may not be. Worth shot if u haven’t done so…

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[Robin S. kurz]

[Bret Williams] “I’ve copied over all my plugins and custom plugs, but one lower 3rd, a custom version of a motionvfx plug isn’t relinking. “

You may want to give this a shot: https://www.spherico.com/filmtools/MTT/index.html

– RK

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[Bret Williams]

I may be dense but I installed it and didn’t get it. From the overly complicated first interface I was confused. Just one more thing to reinstall on a clean install too. But I’ll take another look.

But luckily I fixed my problem. For some reason my custom title was nested in an extra folder (mModules>mModules…) in both my yosemite backup and my new clean install. I dug into the XML and the folder wasn’t nested. So it’s not enough that the title exists and is in the title browser. No. It has to be in the exact file path. Which X doesn’t stare with you unless you want to dig around in the xml.

Next problem. I’m missing a font for one of my titles. The interface doesn’t say I’m missing a font or give any warning of any sort. Nada. It just swaps it to Helvetica. So I’m digging through the XML and of course, it’s all Helvetica now too. Just opening the project has likely screwed up the project because the font isn’t installed. So now I go hunting my old fonts folder hoping I can remember which font it was.

Why do I do clean installs again?

[Robin S. kurz]

If you in fact have a backup, don’t you also have access to the previous fonts folder and could simply copy that over as a whole?

– RK

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[Charlie Austin]

[Bret Williams] “Why do I do clean installs again?”

lol.. try maybe opening a pre-update backup of the library and poke around in that project’s xml. The old font should still be there.

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[Bret Williams]

Beat ya to it. But guess what? Opening the project f*cks the font and an xml export just reports Helvetica. Don’t screw up your fonts folks.

[Charlie Austin]

[Bret Williams] “Beat ya to it. But guess what? Opening the project f*cks the font and an xml export just reports Helvetica. Don’t screw up your fonts folks.”

No I mean open the backup project package, and then open the projects’ fcpevent database in a text editor (i suggest text wrangler, the free version of BBEdit) search for “font” and you’ll find it towards the end of the file… After all the code gibberish there’s some human readable xml that’ll list it… 🙂

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[Bill Davis]

Wes is, I think, still recovering from an athletic injury – sounds like it was a “crutches” rather than a “laid up in bed constantly” thing.

Might slow his productivity a little but knowing him very casually, I suspect whatever he is working on (and I have NO CLUE what that might be – will surely make news when it’s ready.

I also suspect that he is keenly aware of what markets are out there, the general landscape of the competition, and where his development skills can make a difference.

I suspect he’ll be at NAB as usual.

So it won’t be long until we find out what he’s currently up to.

FWIW.

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