[Brent Cook]

My bad. I thought you meant you were stabilizing your footage and then doing a motion tracked title or something. Surely somebody knows what’s going on here.

[Brent Cook]

Works fine for me. What exactly do you mean by “doesn’t do anything”? One thing I noticed when I used your figures, 30% blur is a ton and it made the drop shadow big, undefined and barely noticeable when I applied it to a title. This was a 1080p motion project. What I did:

Open Motion. At the Project browser I select “Final Cut Effect”, preset “Broadcast HD 1080”. With Effect Source layer selected go to Inspector, Properties, activate and show Drop Shadow. Set parameters, and on the dropdown arrow on the far right of each parameter select Publish. Then File, Save As. Add template name, etc, then Publish. Is that what you did?

[Brent Cook]

I wonder what they’re going to do with the logo. I’m not sure changing the 0 to a 1 would look right. It would lose much of its epicness.

[Brent Cook]

I’m far from a Motion expert, but I’m pretty sure the points are moving with the movement of the stabilization. There’s probably a different (and ideal) workflow here, but I’m betting if you render out the stabilized footage (minus the tracking) and import it back into the project and do your motion tracking it should stay put.

[Brent Cook]

No problem here. Does it happen with every project including a newly created one? Did you try trashing your preferences?

[Brent Cook]

This might help. It’s sort of a work around, but seems to get the job done. Just tried it myself and it works great.

FCPX_Custom-Resolution-Timelines/video-tutorial

[Brent Cook]

[Michael Gissing] “Only people new to this forum make this request. Each time the balance of opinion from the forum stalwarts is that the name change is not important and after a few days new posters get into the swing. The quirky name, born from a moment two years ago, becomes irrelevant until a new poster raises the same issue and we shrug and move on.

If it mattered the name would have been changed long ago.”

So if it confuses new users to the forum what does that tell you about the name? I’ve actually been reading these forums for a while now (I just don’t have a lot to contribute) and I still don’t think the name is accurate. It’s all about effective communication. Of course old forum users don’t care because they know what goes on in here. The title isn’t for them. It’s for people scouring the hundreds and hundreds of megabytes 😉 of information on the internet looking for what they need. Whether you think it matters or not, FCPX or Not is not an accurate description of what is discussed in here most the of time. I don’t lose sleep over it. That’s just what I think about it.

[Brent Cook]

[Charlie Austin] “As an old editor, 😉 I’d suggest learning as much software as you can.”

For sure. I actually have PP CS6 so I’ll be delving into that before too long. I guess I’m getting my feet wet in editing with FCPX. Since good editing isn’t dependent on any particular NLE, I don’t suppose it matters what I start with.

[Brent Cook]

Ok, but to be frank, only an idiot would ask that kind of question in any forum rather than actually work with the software, see if it works for him and ask experienced users about specific concerns.

[Brent Cook]

[Walter Soyka] “If you only want to hear more about using FCPX exclusively, try the FCPX Techniques forum [link]. There’s plenty of pretty high-quality discussion about the software there.”

I definitely do hit up the techniques forum. Good stuff in there.

[Walter Soyka] “This forum is named “FCPX or Not: The Debate,”, so although FCPX is the only NLE in the name, many here argue that everyone else falls under “or not.””

I guess it would be less confusing if the name was more NLE ambiguous. To me “FCPX or Not” implies arguments for or against FCPX, including discussion of other NLE’s but discussed in direct correlation to FCPX, otherwise why have it in the name? Why not have a General NLE forum and a FCPX forum where FCPX news is shared along with whatever other discussion outside of specific techniques?

Anyway…didn’t mean to start something here. I think this has been discussed to death before. The barrage of PP threads kind of annoyed me since FCPX is my NLE of choice right now (remains to be seen if this is a good decision) and as a new editor I’m trying to absorb as much as can specific to that before I learn other software.