[Brendan Gibbons]

I think there is a film strip effect in FCP X now 😉

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/344/2402

Hope that helps,

Cheers,

Brendan

[Brendan Gibbons]

Turn off the blue activation light for each effect you don’t want to copy in the inspector.

Then perform the copy and paste effect function to your clips.

Hope that helps.

Cheers,

Brendan

[Brendan Gibbons]

It will be interesting to see if the Lion file versioning feature will be any use as far as having a history of your Fcpx project file.

Cheers,

Brendan

[Brendan Gibbons]

Having dabbled with a bit of programming over the years I know how much time it can take for something which seems so straight forward to the end user.

Dare I say it…Only a few bucks?? 😉

We both know it’s worth more.

Thanks for the time you have put into these, look forward to trying them out.

Cheers,

Brendan

[Brendan Gibbons]

Top class effort!!

Thanks for sharing such valuable tools.

Cheers,

Brendan

[Brendan Gibbons]

I must of missed this one!….nice work and good idea of putting the great motion content to use for textures.

Cheers,

Brendan

[Brendan Gibbons]

You CAN make your background clips appear in the FCP X Generators background area, though it’s probably not an ideal way of working.

By taking a clip into Motion and saving it, when you save it tick the box that says publish to fcp generator or words to that effect.

Set the category to Backgrounds in the pop-up menu that appears. They will now appear back in fcp in the backgrounds category.

As you already tried though, it’s probably best to import them into an event as required. Make sure it doesn’t copy the media on import. Then you can just leave all your stock video / gfx footage all in one place, and it will just create an alias.

By importing them into fcp as a generator via motion, it’s going to end up creating a whole lot of extra data in your…

user name / movies / motion templates / generator directory.

Hope that helps.

Cheers,

Brendan

[Brendan Gibbons]

By setting the brush type in the Heads up display (HUD) BEFORE you draw with the paint tool will determine what attributes the paint tool will use next.

Changing the brush type with a paint object selected just changes the selected object.

Sorry if that’s stating the obvious procedure you are already using.

Cheers,

Brendan

[Brendan Gibbons]

Hi Neil,

Here’s a link to a helpful post from Mark Spencer regarding installing custom presets if you don’t have motion 5 installed.

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/344/1661

So yes you can use all the user generated presets, as long as you have the correct folder structure in place inside the finder.

Cheers,

Brendan

[Brendan Gibbons]

Great to hear it was of some use to your work. Thanks for the feedback.

Cheers,

Brendan