Alex Gollner
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If you have two adjacent clips with a connection location each, you can’t use the roll tool. You need to select the clips and make them into a secondary storyline using the Create Storyline command.
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Alexandre Gollner,
Editor, Zone 2-North West, Londonalex4d on twitter, facebook, .wordpress.com & .com
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If the Orbit Around behaviour doesn’t seem to orbit around the right point (for example, the centre of the text isn’t at the centre of the screen), you can always create a dummy shape in the centre of the screen and disable it in the layer list. You can still use this dummy as the object around which your drop zones orbit.
https://help.apple.com/motion/mac/5.0/en/motion/usermanual/index.html#chapter=9%26section=12
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Alexandre Gollner,
Editor, Zone 2-North West, Londonalex4d on twitter, facebook, .wordpress.com & .com
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Once you position a drop zone the distance you want it remain away from your text open the Transform inspector. Set the anchor x and y points for the drop zone to be the same as the values for x and y position. Then set the values for x and y position to 0. If you then change the rotation value, the drop zone will rotate around 0,0.
However, if you want the drop zones to follow an elliptical path…
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Alexandre Gollner,
Editor, Zone 2-North West, Londonalex4d on twitter, facebook, .wordpress.com & .com
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Looks like this behaviour doesn’t work properly in Final Cut Pro!
Not sure of a workaround yet.
I’m investigating…
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Alexandre Gollner,
Editor, Zone 2-North West, Londonalex4d on twitter, facebook, .wordpress.com & .com
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1. Apply the Sequence Text behaviour
2. Set the speed to Custom
3. Publish the Custom Speed parameter
Alex4D
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Alexandre Gollner,
Editor, Zone 2-North West, Londonalex4d on twitter, facebook, .wordpress.com & .com
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If you clone the text with the behaviour, the clone will cast the shadows.
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Alexandre Gollner,
Editor, Zone 2-North West, Londonalex4d on twitter, facebook, .wordpress.com & .com
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I don’t have Livetoons, but…
…can you keyframe the Mix parameter?
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Alexandre Gollner,
Editor, Zone 2-North West, Londonalex4d on twitter, facebook, .wordpress.com & .com
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FCPX/Motion doesn’t work the way you want yet.
Until Apple changes the model for how effects work, it’s worth investigating Andreas’ free Motion Template Tool. As well as being able to install templates into different user accounts, it can also inspect FCPXML and collect required effects in one place alongside an install script.
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Alexandre Gollner,
Editor, Zone 2-North West, Londonalex4d on twitter, facebook, .wordpress.com & .com
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The workaround is better than some but not as convenient as applying an effect to a clip.
The problem is that clip timecode is no longer passed to effects. This means setting up the timeline the clip is on to match that of the clip. So, open a clip in its own timeline and add the timecode generator. It reads the timecode of the timeline it is on – which is correct when opened from within the Event.
However these ‘timecoded’ clips don’t display properly in projects. The generator in the clip timeline gets the timecode of the project, not the clip. So the workaround workaround is to make a single angle multicam clip of your timecoded clip. When this multicam clip is used in a project timeline, the timecode generator in the clip timeline gets the timecode of the multicam clip. Luckily multicam clips default to starting with the timecode of the clip they are based on.
Not a great solution for 136 clips, but perhaps better than nothing.
An advantage of multicam clips is that every instance of the clip in all projects links back to the same multicam clip, which means that if you want to turn off the clip timecode, you need only open the multicam clip in the angle editor and open the single angle clip in its own timeline and either delete or disable the generator. Once you do that in the multicam clip, the timecode disappears in all uses of the clip in all projects.
To see more screenshots and more detail on this method, visit my blog.
Hurrah for ‘Final Cut Pro W’!
Hope the need for this workaround is short-lived and will be obviated in the next update (which is due by the end of the month given the frequency of previous updates).
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Alexandre Gollner,
Editor, Zone 2-North West, Londonalex4d on twitter, facebook, .wordpress.com & .com
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You can use the Shapes generator, the thumbnail shows a circle, but you can set the shape to being a rectangle. You can then set fill and border colours, and border width.
You can then use the transform controls in the Video tab of the inspector. The quality stays fine when scaling up and rotating these shapes (not like when you scale and rotate video). Remember that although the maximum scale the slider can show is 400%, you can enter values as high as you need.
The values can be different for horizontal and vertical scale % (click the turndown arrow), in this case it is best if you set the generator to show a square.
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Alexandre Gollner,
Editor, Zone 2-North West, Londonalex4d on twitter, facebook, .wordpress.com & .com
