[Tony West]

[Mathieu Ghekiere] “Is there not a way to make this in Motion and then make it your default transition? “

That’s a good question.

I’m trying to think of how often I would actually use it.

For the most part if I have an interview and the subject says,” I started playing baseball at 16″

I just have that b-roll on top of his primary and make a dissolve on that footage while his audio underneath keeps going, and since the b-roll audio is together (how I prefer it) I just reach up and adjust that b-roll sound.

Are you guys wanting to do your video only transitions in the primary all the time? I’m trying to picture it.

[Tony West]

[Robin S. Kurz] “[Tony West] “I think I still may prefer adjusting it in the inspector in X first,”

That won’t actually change anything in terms of what you’ll need to modify in Motion once you open it. Those settings are irrelevant to it’s initial state in Motion.”

I know, I just mean in terms of quickly creating and adjusting these backgrounds. I won’t be modifying the background in Motion once I do that in X. I will just be building on top of that with other stuff.

[Tony West]

[Tim Wilson] “In any case, nobody has presented the advantage that Apple has introduced by REDUCING the degree of integration between its products in its new vision for how things are supposed to work in the best possible world, ie, Apple’s.”

I think they feel the “advantage” is saving time. I think they think it takes more time to leave one program to go to another. I think they want you to do almost everything inside X

They want you to grade in there, instead of going to another program. Correct your audio in there. After rigging go to Motion a little less because of all the templates you built are waiting for you in X.

I think that’s why they have been slow to add “send to Motion” because that kind of goes against the theme.

It’s just a theory.

[Tony West]

Erm… simply delete the ones you don’t want? They’re just regular, everyday image layers.
“

OK, I think I still may prefer adjusting it in the inspector in X first,
But I’m glad to know there is another option.

[Tony West]

[Robin S. Kurz] “Have you considered a simple right-click in FCP? 😉
“

Ha, Robin I can’t believe I overlooked that. Thanks brother.

I should be in the other forum with this, but how do I step through the different fabrics once I have it in Motion. Can you do that?

[Tony West]

[Robin S. Kurz] “You realize of course, that all of those backgrounds are in fact Motion projects, right?
“

Where do I find those inside of Motion Robin?

Like, stone or fabrics.

[Tony West]

[Herb Sevush] “Or you could hit “send to motion.”

Which would you prefer?
“

I would prefer “send to Motion”

I would also prefer not to do those extra steps you mentioned. I was saying “before” those shots hit the timeline in X
I would bring them into Motion “first”

Those effects on those shots would be the first thing that I did to the footage for that section.

I might be an oddball but here is my list

The first thing that I would like in Motion would be the “Skimmer” I don’t like old school moving that playhead around after working in X
Send to Motion only helps me at the beginning and end. The “Skimmer” helps me the entire time I’m working on the shots. Put the “blank” Skimmer in there Apple!

Second, X has all these really cool backgrounds that I love to build Motion graphics over. I want all of those in Motion also. I don’t want to have to export those out of X

Then third I would like Send to Motion, because as Jeremy said, sometimes my timing get’s a little off in the timeline.

None of these are a deal breaking for me. I love Motion and X

But I would love them even more with those 3 things.

[Tony West]

[Herb Sevush] “I know that Motion rigging works very well in that one direction”

I wouldn’t call that one direction myself. It starts in X, goes to Motion, gets changed and sent back to X.
That seems like two directions to me.

[Herb Sevush] “but what if you had a shot of a WS of a guy under an umbrella and you wanted to create artificial rain and that on a cut to a CU turns to snow.”

I would bring the WS shot and the CU into Motion to begin with and ad the rain on one and the snow on the other, then bring those into the X

I just like to start in Motion. I’m not opposed to having a send to Motion feature though. I just enjoy using Motion so much I’m going to use it without that feature anyway.

[Tony West]

[Steve Connor] “[Tony West] “I don’t “want” to have to send the whole section over to Motion while ding this. I want to send the template over there. It’s “faster””

Yep, Motion is now a great titling tool within FCPX and perhaps for many that’s all the interaction it needs
“

It’s not all the interaction that “I” need. I was just responding to a specific point in this thread.

I often use Motion for far more complicated things than titles, I just start those sections in Motion to begin with.

[Tony West]

[Herb Sevush] “OK, so show me the error of my ways. From within FCPX can you select a section of your timeline and send those clips to Motion, with their in and outpoints preserved,”

He will correct me if I’m wrong Herb, but an example of what Robin is saying would be……..

You have an interview in your timeline. You use a motion template lower third. That lower third needs to be changed in someway (say making it longer). You can open that lower third template in motion from X and change it in Motion and now you have the effect ready for you in X

You wouldn’t “need” to send the whole interview over to Motion. You are sending the template over there.

I like that it can do that and I have used it that way many times.

I don’t “want” to have to send the whole section over to Motion while ding this. I want to send the template over there. It’s “faster”