[Jens Jacobsen]

Alex, you did it again!
Yes, “broken” meant, I get the blue preview. I just got rid of all the prefs (Motion 4 prefs are in “Startup HD/Users/Your user name/Library/Application Support/Final Cut Pro Studio/Motion/Presets/”), and now everything is fine.

Thank you so much, again!

[Jens Jacobsen]

It is very strange: I get the same behavior with your clip as well as with mine. To make things worse, I discovered that the effects are broken when I re-open FCP X. I am not yet sure, but I afraid, I have to reassign them and have to make all the tweaks to keyframes etc. Arg.

But: I did just install your effect on my system at home. It is basically the same iMac, just with a slower processor. And here, your effect works like a charm.

Do you have any idea what could have messed up my system at work? The folder structure for the effects is the same, only the projects and events are on an external HD there.

Cheers, Jens

[Jens Jacobsen]

Alex, you are my hero!
Yesterday I was close to desperation and planed to throw away two entire day’s work and use Motion 4 for my project. Today I am singing at my desk! Thanks a lot!!!

Since you are a rigging pro, I got two more questions on this (both problems occur with your template as well on my system):

1) When the clip is longer than the Motion template, it is not played back entirely, but it loops after the length of the object in Motion. It is no problem, though, I just made the object in Motion 30 mins long…

2) If I click on the Effect in FCPX, I see only a blue preview. When I open any of my custom templates in Motion, the previews work again. (Assigning the effect doesn’t work also. But I clips that already have the effect assigned work, though.)

But these are minor nuisances. Thanks again for your great help!