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Option and up or down arrow. Best of luck.
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Yeah, while in Final Cut Pro just select your clip you want to work with in Motion. Right click on it and choose Send to and then Motion Project. And the clip will appear in Motion ready for you to work with. Or you can just import the clip into Motion. If you don’t want the clip in Motion anymore just disable it or delete it. Hope this helps and best of luck.
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I think a great thing to do, would be to do an internship at a production company that does similar work to what you would like to do. You will pick up some real world skills and more importunely, you would make some good contacts. Also, you would learn if this is what you really want to do. Making a movie for fun in your backyard is different then working on a set for 12 hours 6 days a week. Or then creating a video for a client who has strong options and doesn’t give you full rain over creativity… and the list goes on. Me personally, I think I have the best job in the word. Best of luck in your pursuit.
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I’m sure you will consider this a cop out answer, but have you done everything in this article yet?
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT1885
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I think you will find this article helpful.
https://dvprofessionals.ning.com/profiles/blogs/how-to-get-free-email-mail?xgs=1
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You want to take a look at the Ripple Tool. It lets you adjusts a clip’s In or Out point, making the clip longer or shorter, without leaving a gap in the Timeline. Its should be on page 700 of your manual. It effects either clip on the In or Out depending on what side of the cut you use the tool on. Hit the R key twice to get the tool. Hope this helps.
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Sorry, I have to agree. I don’t like Motion’s default keyers and was really hoping that would be addressed in the newest version of Motion. You can by a plug-in or I’ve found great success with keying it in Final Cut Pro using the Chroma Keyer. Don’t render the footage and mark an In and Out point on the footage. Then go up to File, Export, Using QuickTime Conversion. Click on the Options button next to Format. Choose Animation for the Video settings. Make sure it’s depth is Millions Colors +. Import the footage into Motion and you are ready to go. Hope this helps.
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[Gabriel] Don’t mean to step on toes by being critical of Motion – really. I’m just hoping to be pointed the way to Motion happiness for my specific needs.
Be as critical as you want, you will not step on anyone’s toes. I did not write what I did to argue with you, but to just say that Motion can do a lot more then people give it credit. So, if you took my comment as a slam, sorry, it was in no way meant to be.
[Gabriel] For titles, I’ve found that even if I create any background elements behind the text and pre-render them as a QT with alpha, they take much longer to render than AE – like 8x to 10x as long as AE does even when building the backgrounds on the fly. Are slow render times something that must be expected or am I doing something wrong? Timelines with Motion elements also seem to hang on opening while FCP loads master templates.
Walter is right, however…I’ve found that if I export out a movie in FCP as a QT – Animation – Millions Color + video and crank up the Quality beyond the default preset it does slow down Motion’s real time playback capabilities. I really can’t see the difference between the Quality set to Medium or Best, so make sure you leave it at Medium.
[Gabriel] For transitions, what I’d love to do is something I used to do 10 years ago with Boris FX and Discrete Edit* – overlap clips on v1 and v2 by x number of frames, and drop an effect on top which would grab v1, apply various filters, resize, etc. and do various other things to v2. In effect, for example, creating a transition where one track zooms, blooms, and fades out, while the other fades in. I haven’t been able to get templates to work for this.
You can do this by applying the behaviors slash filter to V1. Duplicate the clip and make the adjustments. Drag the V2 clip onto the duplicate of V1 and it will swap out the clip. Or you can just copy and paste the info to the V2 clip and the make the changes. You can then tun that project into a template and use it over and over or just re-open this project and open up the project pane or timeline and drag all of the groups / group to the new project. Swap out the clips by dragging the new one on the old or by just hitting F1 and changing the Media by clicking on the To button.
[Gabriel] Can drop zones automatically grab predetermined video tracks? Is there a different approach that would achieve the same end?
Sorry, I’m not sure I understand what your asking. Hope this is helpful and best of luck on all of your projects.
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Sorry, you are correct. Motion 3 does not have the Numbers Generator. An upgrade is under $300 bucks. I hope your project is working out well.
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Some one needs to make a program like Final Cut Pro rescue for Deleting user preferences in Motion. Deleting user preferences usually seems to do the trick. Also, even a really big shape can give you the error message that you got. Best of luck and I hope your system works great.
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