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Update on my origional post of having problems with import/export from FCP to Motion
Hello… Origional post is at bottom of post here.
Does anyone know if it has anything to do with Tiger. On my G5 tower I am running Tiger but on my Powerbook I am running Panther 10.39 and on my laptop I can export files from the timeline in FCP to Motion from the export to motion with the embed option tab selected. I can then color correct in Motion and make unlimited updates and everytime I return to FCP it has me reconnect the media and it is good….that is of course of my G4 Powerbook….but on my G5 tower with Tiger I can only see one embeded action. If I return to Motion and update it more than once I then lose the connection and the once color corrected file in my timeline (that hast the motion extention) reverts to my origional file. Even if I delete the file from the timeline and import the .motn file once more…it still only reads the origional quicktime untouched related link…..
PLEASE…for the love of God…tell me that I am not the only one with this problem….I am going out of my mind and I am, of course, on a deadline.
Has anyone here just reverted to the method of placing the file in the FCP timeline and then exporting it to Motion and then from there working on the file….getting it to where you want and then instead of embeding it you export it as a quicktime file by itself and then return to FCP and import/replace it in the timeline. I am about to revert to this method but would greatly like to not have to go this route.
Thanks, Jeff.
Origional Post on subject:
Hello, any help would be greatly…greatly appreciated. I am editing a music video in FCP 4.5 HD. I am laying out the edit there and doing all the color correcting in Motion 1.0.1.
I have my books in front of me and I am reading the additional pamphlet that came with it called, using postproduction apps together. But…I am having some major problems with the embeded option.
Here we go:I open up a file in FCP and set my in and out marker. I then move it to the timeline and place it where I want it to be. I then select the file *from the timeline* not in the browser for that option doesnt seem to work for me. I go to the file>export to motion project and then I make sure that launch motion and embed motion content are both checked. I save the file to my directory and then it opens it up in Motion.
Once I have it in Motion I can do color correcting and so on. Once I think I have it where I want it I select the image in Motion and then hit save. I then go back to FCP and 99% of the time the image has already been shifted to reflect what I did or it gives me the alert that I need to reconnect media. I do this and everything is fine.
Heres where the problem comes in: If I decide to do any further changes to my image I rarely notice it in FCP and sometimes it even reverts back to the origional file..untouched…even though it has the motion file extension on it in the timeline and there is a link in the browser.
After I make any additional changes I come back to FCP and then it give me the pop up of reconnecting the media so I say reconnect. It pops up as offline and then I hit enter and then it takes me to the directory that my .motn file is in, I select it and hit enter and then that is where it usually just reverts in the timeline back to the origional file/untouched/un color corrected. It is so frusterating.
I have tried everything. It seems so random that sometimes I feel like it might just be the program but it must be something that I am doing.
I guess my question is that if the embed option is selected when I switch over the file why is it doing this?
Also, is it expecting that I am only going to go over once and not continually work on my colors?
Can someone please help me with this question. Basically…Im on a timeline and I am desperate.
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I’d do what you know will work… export a self contained QT movie from motion, and cut it in the sequence in FCP… Also report this in feedback to Apple…
Jerry
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