Two computers, same plugin, one offline – what to do?

[Bret Williams]

Why doesn’t the file path list movies/motion templates/etc? It just skips right from user to transitions.

[John Rofrano]

[Bret Williams] “Why doesn’t the file path list movies/motion templates/etc? It just skips right from user to transitions.”

I’m guessing because all Motion plug-ins for FCP X MUST be under ~/Movies/Motion Templates/* so it would be redundant to include this information in the XML. All FCP X needs to know is if it’s under Transitions, Titles, Generators, Effects, or Compositions. There is no other place it could be.

~jr

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[Tangier Clarke]

I’ll give this a try. Coincidentally Motion generators that I’ve created and in the same directory (other than the same user account) between different computers don’t always work; particularly ones with drop zones even though I have the media in both copies of the FCP X library.

Tangier

[Bret Williams]

But did YOU put the media in the folder, or did you have it copy it automatically? I’ve seen that be a problem when it’s just copied to the media folder in the effect, because that’s just a copy of the media it’s actually linked to somewhere else.

[Bret Williams]

Except all the plugins and templates that aren’t installed there and are installed in /Library/Application Support/Final Cut Pro/Templates

For example on my system that’s where Universe, Coremelt, and Neat Video reside. Not in my user folder.

[Tangier Clarke]

Good point, but yes, I have it all in there like a nice tidy package.

Tangier

[John Rofrano]

[Bret Williams] “Except all the plugins and templates that aren’t installed there and are installed in /Library/Application Support/Final Cut Pro/Templates”

Those are fully qualified in the XML. Here is what they look like:

<effect id="r4" name="BCC Film Damage" uid="/Library/Application Support/Final Cut Pro/Templates.localized/Effects.localized/BCC Film Style/BCC Film Damage/BCC Film Damage.moef"/>

I was just pointing out that when FCP X sees an effect uid that starts with “~/” it knows it’s a Motion template relative to the Users home folder so it doesn’t need to add Motion Templates to the name.

This causes the problem because users who manually create a folder named “Motion Templates” won’t get their plug-ins picked up because the real name is “Motion Templates.localized” with the extension “.localized” hidden.

~jr

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[Tangier Clarke]

Projects from copies of the same library; one on my work computer and one on a thunderbolt drive connected to my personal computer.

Work computer:
effect id=”r48″ name=”Sound only” uid=”~/Transitions.localized/Sound only/Sound only.motr”

Personal computer:
effect id=”r41″ name=”Sound only” uid=”~/Transitions.localized/Sound only/Sound only.motr”

Seems like the locations are the same. Yet on my personal computer I have the red frame with yellow exclamation marked yield sign wherever the Sound Only transition is.

It’d be nice if that yield sign were clickable so FCP X would tell me what it’s issue is.

Tangier

[John Rofrano]

[Tangier Clarke] “Personal computer:
effect id=”r41″ name=”Sound only” uid=”~/Transitions.localized/Sound only/Sound only.motr””

Do the files exist on your personal computer?

Open a Terminal window and issue an ls command:
ls "~/Transitions.localized/Sound only/Sound only.motr"
If you get back:
ls: ~/Transitions.localized/Sound only/Sound only.motr: No such file or directory
Then the file doesn’t exist.

~jr

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