[Stephen Smith]

So you are saying you have exported out your Motion Project file into a Quicktime movie. Then imported the movie clip into FCP and it still plays back sluggish?

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[Stephen Smith]

Happy to help and best of luck.

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[Stephen Smith]

How big are your images? If they are big they will slow everything down.

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[Stephen Smith]

Alright, so here is what you need to do. Click on the Project (F5 key for shortcut) or Timing (F6 key for short cut) button in the top right corner of the screen. The first layer under the Camera is called the “Text Elements” group. Click on the triangle to the left of the word “Text Elements”. That will reveal a bunch of text layers and another group. Click on the triangle for the “Clone Layers of Text” group and Group 1 represents the first text you see. You can delete that if you don’t want the text. Hope this is what you wanted to know and best of luck.

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Dan,
I’m happy to help. Most of the other templates are a lot easier to work with so don’t get frustrated because of this one. To make sure we are on the same page. Are you working with the Snap Lower Third, Snap Menu or the Snap open?

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[Stephen Smith]

That is because the text is in a Clone Layer. The text you want to effect is in the “Text Elements(for Clone Layer). That is the top layer. You can change the text there. You can delete all of the text in the Format tab and that way the empty text place holder is still there if you need it. Hope this helps and best of luck.

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[Stephen Smith]

Any examples you could point to?

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[Stephen Smith]

Michael,
What program are you using?

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[Stephen Smith]

Are you saying your footage looks bad or your graphics? Or both?

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[Stephen Smith]

I prefer “Motion Graphics” but I don’t think it matters.

I would say that “Motion Graphics are graphics used mainly in video/film to convey a message”.I don’t know, I just made that up. I may also need to mention that it is different for print graphics because the imagery is seen beyond one image. Anyways, hope that gives you a little help.

What I really wanted to say is that Motion Graphics have come a long ways in a very short amount of time. Go to artofthetitle.com and look at movie titles for recent films and you will see some amazing complicated work. Then look at some of the great titles of not that long ago and watch how simple they are. Technology has come a long way in a short period of time. A matter of fact I started out editing deck to deck and that was not that long ago.

Here is a link to some inspiration motion graphics that I have collected on my blog.

What degree is this for?

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