Simon Ubsdell
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OK, before you do something drastic we’ll both regret (!) would you mind posting a screengrab of your Motion Templates folder so I can see for sure that I’m recommending the right course of action.
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[John Mendelsohn] “To my horror, I discovered that I seem to have not just one, but two Motion Templates folders in my User > Movies directory.”
Ah, OK – I think I begin to see the problem 😉
In fact you have more than one problem. You need to do three things, firstly to consolidate all your template into the one folder, secondly to make sure you have put the right things into the right folders as you have unfortunately put things at the top level of the Motion Templates folder rather than into their respective folder which is where they need to live, and thirdly to get all the complete templates folder into their correct respective folders (Effects, Generators, Transitions).
Move folder Number Two out onto your Desktop and leaving Motion Templates folder 1 where it is (but rename it to remove the “1” if that’s what you’ve got).
Now you need to move the contents of MT folder 2 into the clean master MT folder.
Your biggest problem is that you’ve got folders and their contents scattered everywhere and this is going to be very hard to sort out without sitting in front of your computer.
When you downloaded a template you should have left the folder as it was – not opened it up and emptied the contents randomly around 😉
For example you should have a folder called Alex 4D 4Up that contains the .moef, the Media folder and the small png. And what is more this folder should be living inside your Effects folder (made automatically by FCPX) which is where all the Apple Effects live.
The way you can tell what’s what is by the suffix: a “.moef” is an Effect, a “.motr” is a transition, a “.motn” is a Generator. Each complete template folder must sit inside its related Effects, Generators or Transitions folder.
But you might be best off just removing everything and redownloading what you need and starting from scratch.
For a really clean install and a brilliant way to keep everything organized I thoroughly recommend that you get hold of Andreas Kiels’s Motion Template tool available from his spherico.com website.
I hope that helps a bit – the problem is that you’ve got yourself in quite a mess 😉
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[John Mendelsohn] “They worked briefly, and then vanished, without my having changed the contents of any folders”
This does seem like a very curious behavior and I haven’t heard of anyone else who has had the same problem so I think it is almost certainly a problem specific to your installation for one reason or another.
Could you check that the folders for the effects in question are indeed still in your User/Movies/Motion Templates folder?
If they are, you could try moving them out, launching FCPX, quitting, and them moving them back in again.
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Surely this is exactly what you’d expect since you’ve cropped (not trimmed) the image and not resized it to fit the frame. Cropping makes the image sit inside the frame – what you are seeing is the black bars top and bottom that you have chosen to put there, surely?
Your effects will obviously only affect the total image area and if that image area has black in it you’ll still see black. You’ve effectively composited your image over black so that’s what the effect will see.
Conversely here’s what happens if you use trim which of course fills the frame with your source image and hence leaves no black (once I’ve compounded the image and applied the effect – hard vignette and border applied):
And here’s what the image looks like before being compounded:
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I see what you’re saying. The OP was talking about vignetting which would work the way I suggested whether he was trimming or cropping.
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[Tom Wolsky] “It depends how the image was cropped. If it was trimmed it will work. IF it was cropped it will not as the compound clip will be the same size as the original.”
Could you clarify? I can’t seem to get any difference at all between cropping and trimming in this workflow, unless of course I’m not resizing the trim which I can’t believe he would be doing here.
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If you compound the clip you have cropped the vignette will apply correctly.
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[Steve Connor] “it’s much quicker than any mp4 export”
As you say, it’s much faster – very fast indeed actually. It’s here that you can see the power really kicking in.
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[Bill Davis] “I don’t think so Simon,
There’s a separate function for doing iPod/Phone/Pad/Apple TV versions one menu choice directly below the Media Browser in their own space (iDevices.)
The Apple designers are a lot of things, but this kind of “two menus next to each other to do the exact same thing” – sloppy they are not.”
I’m not prepared to speculate on whether or not Apple are sloppy – let’s not go there!
I will just reiterate – in case anyone is following this and wants to adopt your strategy – that what the Share/Media Browser makes is an MPEG-4 as we can see very clearly from the Summary tab.
Not really any doubt about it. This is not, repeat not, a mastering format as I am sure you are aware.
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