[Marco Feil]

I do mostly motion graphics and very few vfx and I think you can do most things in both apps. Motion may look a bit simple on first look but once you dig a little you’ll discover it’s really powerful. And it’s so much faster to work with. Most of my projects run in realtime or near realtime without rendering – you get instant feedback adjusting things.. And if there’s a missing feature most of the time theres a plugin for it..

The Integration of Motion titles, generators and effects with Final Cut X is really great, I use it all the time. I prepare a lot of titles and effects for other editors so they can adjust colors, text, blendmodes and more on the fly. AE/Premiere Dynamic link is much less flexible and renders awfully slow compared to Motion/FCPX.

The only things in AE I sometimes miss are the Warp Stabilizer and Puppet Tool. For Planar or 3D Tracking and 3D Animation I use other Apps. I don’t do scripting, so the behaviors in Motion fit my needs.

Though I do worry sometimes because there wasn’t a really big update since the facelift 4->5. I hope there’ll be a Motion X with a big feature upgrade in the foreseeable future.

[Marco Feil]

What exactly do you mean with dotted effect? If you mean the white specs that appear randomly for a frame then you just need to crank up the dust (and perhaps hairs) slider in the aged film plugin.

BTW If you don’t need the frame slipping and focusing effects then you could also just use an overlay like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0QOpCwKyGI
just search for old film or damaged film overlay on youtube, videohive, shutterstock.com or any other stock footage vendor.

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[Marco Feil]

The settings option is in the drop-down menu at the bottom left of the inspector where you can select the metadata view, in your screenshot it says ‘basic’.

[Marco Feil]

Here’s a custom FCPX effect that has all of the original motion effect controls accessible:
https://blog.alex4d.com/2012/06/24/aged-film-fcpx-effect/

[Marco Feil]

Check if the alpha is interpreted right (video inspector – info – settings – alpha handling) and set it to the same as in the AE export. IIRC it should be premultiplied but FCPX sometimes interprets it as straight alpha.

[Marco Feil]

link works for me… here’s the text:

You can use Disk Utility to burn a disk image on a recordable CD or DVD disc. You might do this to make a backup copy of your files, which you can use to restore the files to a disk. You can also use CDs and DVDs to move files from one computer to another or to send them to other people.

To burn a disc, you need an optical drive in your computer or connected directly to your computer. You can’t burn a disc using a remote optical drive.

1. Open Disk Utility, in the Utilities folder in Launchpad.
2. Select the disk image if it appears in the list at the left, and then click Burn in the toolbar.
Otherwise, click Burn in the toolbar, and then select a disk image in the dialog that appears.

3. Insert a recordable CD or DVD disc into the optical drive, and then follow the onscreen instructions.

[Marco Feil]

have you tried burning the image with disk utility?
https://support.apple.com/kb/PH5824

[Marco Feil]

You can choose which keywords should appear as metadata tags in the fcpx export window.

regarding your already rendered files: you can use subler to remux the files without metadata. just open the file, choose passthrough for video and audio and delete all entries in the metadata tab.
https://code.google.com/p/subler/

[Marco Feil]

Select the images in your timeline, hit CTRL + D, then enter the new duration (300 for 3 seconds 00 frames), hit enter.

[Marco Feil]

Yes you can download it to all the computers you own if you work alone. In a shared workplace every workstation has to have its own license.

A link to the license agreement is on the right side of the app store page.

2. Permitted License Uses and Restrictions.
A. License. Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, unless you obtained the Apple Software as described in Section 2B, you have the right to use the Apple Software as permitted by the Mac App Store Product Usage Rules set forth in the App Store Terms and Conditions (https://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/ww/) (“Usage Rules”), and are granted a limited, non-transferable, non-exclusive license:

(i) to download, install, use and run for personal, non-commercial use, one (1) copy of the Apple Software directly on each Apple-branded computer running OS X (“Mac Computer”) that you own or control; and

(ii) if you are a commercial enterprise or educational institution, to download, install, use and run one (1) copy of the Apple Software for use either: (a) by a single individual on each of the Mac Computer(s) that you own or control, or (b) by multiple individuals on a single shared Mac Computer that you own or control. For example, a single employee may use the Apple Software on both the employee’s desktop Mac Computer and laptop Mac Computer, or multiple students may serially use the Apple Software on a single Mac Computer located at a resource center or library.