Copyright question (Motion templates)

Hi,
Is the footage used in Motion templates free for use? I want to use the fire and the sky sequences from Motion 1.0 in a music video. Can I do that?
Thanks

My understanding is that they are royalty free clips - much like the sound effect loops provided in Sound Track Pro (gosh - if they're not I may be in trouble...)
Patrick

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Few questions on Templates and Favorites

Experts,
Few fundamental questions on Templates and Favorites...
1) Can Favorites be shared with other users?
2) Can Templates be transported across systems (Dev or QA or PRD) ?
3) Can Templates be shared across planning area ( Yes, KF names are same across planning area?
Any insights appreciated!!!
Thanks
Krishna

Hello Krishna
1. No, favorites are user specific and are not shared. Templates are.
2. There are no transports in the traditional sense in S&OP. So a Template can't really be transported. What you can do, however, is open a Template in DEV, for example, then log off and log back on - just this time to QA or PRD. This assumes you have the same planning area, KF etc.in each system. Now you can add it to the templates in QA or PRD ... this is how you get it from one system to another.
3. I believe they are not shared between planning areas. If you make a planning area copy, I think they might come over but if you built a new PA2 from scratch, the ones you have in PA1 won't be there. If you want to get a planning view template from one PA to another, you basically follow the steps as in my answer to your second question. Again, for sharing a planning view Template between Planning Areas the attributes, time profiel and key figures you use have to be the same.
Hope this helps,
Jens

Being brand new to FCX I want to purchase Motion5 so as I am able to add a motion template to the start of a video. Can someone please explain in simple terms how I go about this. Looked at tutorials

Being brand new to FCPX and Motion 5 I want to use a motions template I have bought for a wedding DVD I have shot, so as to place the introductory template at the start of my film. I have looked at tutorials and cant seem to see anything that tells me simply how to achieve this. Do I edit my film as normal in FCPX and then transfer to Motion to add the motion template or visa versa ?? I need a simple answer as I am far from an expert. Can anyone help please.

what do you mean by 'motion template'?
as you notice on launch of M5, it offers you different project types.
when you select 'title', the minute you save it, it's avail on next launch of FCPX in the title-browser.
same with effects.
if you like to use M5 for producing a short segment (eg, I created my 'openers' with it, some animation of our soccer-team's logo, the first 4sec in this video), you simply export the final project as a Quicktime-file and add it to some Event in FCPX for future use ...

FCP7.0.3 crashing with Motion template on Snow Leopard

Have upgraded from a Leopard from the 2009 MacPro install of Final Cut Studio3 to Snow Leopard on the current Westmere hardware with the same Final Cut Studio 3 application. The Motion Templates in the FCP application are causing application crashes. Need help what could be the cause!

You may have a ProKit problem.
Consider this:
Restoring an older version of ProKit - Digital Rebellion Blog

Looong render times with motion templates

I've been a big advocate for FCPX as there are a lot of great features but there are some things that are just killing me, no.1 render time.
I'm working on some simple presentation edits using motion templates I have built in motion 5 and published to fcpx. The templates all consist of a single dropbox for video with a type field for test messages next to it. These are against a flat white rectangle used to reflect (similar to the coverflow but against a white background) and a subtle camera sweep has been added so it slowly turns from one side to the other by 30 degrees. Each of these is 10 seconds long.
I chop up my imported movie on the timeline (untouched by grade/fx/retiming) and add the template to each of the chopped clips. I then select each applied template in the timeline and use the video well to select the clip below it for the dropzone. I add my text. That's all good. I now have a timeline approx 3 minutes long consisting of these motion graphics templates.
Now, if I chose to either render or export a QT with timeline settings, estimated time is 8 - 9 hrs (I have tried both) I left a 3:30 project exporting last night at 11:45. It finished at 9:00AM.
That is just unacceptable. It is irritating because the functionality of building the sequences in FCPX far outweighs what FCP 7 is capable of but the so-called "renderless" abilities of FCPX
are making life ****.
I use Event Manager X to turn off everything I am not using except the individual project. I have reset preferences in Preference Manager to see if that helps. I have purged using terminal. I have my clips on an external firewire 800 HD. I have no other software running. I accept I need a more powerful Mac - I'm using a 2009 3 Ghz Intel Core Duo iMac with 6gig ram using Lion 10.7.2 and FCPX 10.0.2 but 9 hours for a 3:30 clip?
Any suggestions for where I can cut down on render time are appreciated. The source clip for the video for the dropzones and the final exported presentation movie are HD ProRes.
Cheers

The situation you describe does not seem normal. It should not take nearly that long to render and export your 3:30 movie. Considering that your mac is not one of the most recent vintage, and your are editing in full HD, one could expect it to take a bit of time, but nothing like this.
In the way of troubleshooting, you could try and export just one of these 10 second segments.
I have no way of knowing for sure, but I guess that it might export in a much more reasonable amount of time.
I suspect that memory may be running scarce, which, as has been repeatedly mentioned in these fora, is a problem affecting many of us using FCP X under Lion. You mentioned you used "purge" in the Terminal, but in such a long render you might have had to do it repeatedly...

Edit Motion project as Motion template in FCP timeline?

Hi,
I'd like to know is it possible to turn basic Motion project into Motion template in Final Cut Pro timeline? If not possible I think this would be a great feature because it simply takes too much time to copy motion projects for example to 10 edits /library/motion... folder to have them accessible as templates. I know it wouldn't be possible to see preview videos this way but I wouldn't care. Motion templates are a great tool but this way a little bit too slow to use for simple text animations etc.

In FCP, right-click the Motion project and choose open in editor. In Motion, choose save as template.

Motion Template

I'm having problems with Motion Template in Final Cut. I've recently changed computers and have discovered that I can't open up Motion Templates in my viewer. It appears as a black screen. I edited the original program using a Mac Book Pro, Motion templates playback very well. After switching computers (Mac Pro) I'm not able to render out or playback these Motion Templates. My only guess is the graphics card. Final Cut Pro recommends an AGP or PCI Express Quarts Extreme. Here are the specs on my system:
Mac OSX version 10.5.3
Processor: 2x266 GHz Dual Core Intel Xeon
Memory: 5 GB 667 MHz DDR2 B-DIMM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT
Everything else plays back very well. Have also updated software. it the graphics card? Any thoughts?

The template appears fine in Motion. I loaded it to my sequence and right clicked and opened it up in Motion. I played back fine in Motion, I just can't get it to play back in Final Cut.
What are your thoughts about the graphics card? The very first laptop I had was a MacBook. We had Final Cut Studio loaded on it. I had the same problem where Motion Template would not play in Final Cut. We went to a MacBook Pro and the Motion Template played back fine. Now, I have a Mac tower with more hard drive space, and the Motion Template does not playback. Any other thoughts? Thanks.

Problems rendering Motion template

When I add a Motion template onto my timeline and edit it, it shows up fine on the canvas until I render it...then nothing, the lower 3rd or whatever I put in there just disappears from the rendered video. It is still on the timeline, but only shows up on the canvas when unrendered. What am I doing wrong?

Hi,
My problem is verrrrry similar to yours:
When I add a Motion template onto my timeline and edit it, it shows and plays fine on the canvas -UNTIL- I render it...then it look like interlaced noise?
I am running FCP STUDIO 2 on a MAC BOOK PRO using Panasonic HVX200 footage (HD 720p24) .
Have you found any fixes?

Why does font looks pixelated when exporting motion template to FCP?

I created a motion template for some text animations and I also tried with just a motion file and when I added either one to FCP it just looks like crap (pixelated edges, really really bad edges)
I noticed this happens if you don't have a drop shadow or a glow selected on the fonts
is there a way to solve this?

http://daystreet.com/Motiontext/Motiontext.html

Unable to install third party effects/titles. Missing folders in Motion Template.

Hi. I am unable to install third-party titles/effects/generators in FCP X version 10.2. I navigate to my Movies/Motion Templates folder and there are no subfolders in there. I created new ones labeled "Titles", "Generators", etc and placed the complete folder of the third party effects in the appropriate subfolder, but the effects do not show up in FCP X. I am on a managed laptop and do not have Administrative control. I am wondering if because I have a user profile with limited installation control, could that be affecting my ability to add the effects or is there something else that is wrong? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Preferences do get corrupted rather often, and deleting them is usually one of the first thing one tries whenever something strange happens in FCP X.
How exactly did you delete the preferences? The current method of choice is by holding down the command and option keys when starting the application and then confirming when the dialog box comes up.
I have not tried running FCP X from a non admin user account. Whether this could be the issue, I can't say.
Can you post screenshots of a Finder window, in column view, showing the folder structure inside Motion Templates?

Motion template folder shared on xsan with sym link

hi, i'm julien chambaud, can i shared a motion template folder on xsan with a symbolic link to another Mac Pro (13).
Or can i synchronise 13 stations (motion template) automatically when one folder is changing?
I tried hazel, remote desktop, i would love to know if the symlink way is better?
have a nice day and thank's for your help

Hi Jesse,
I don't quite get this -- you're going to use Xsan and then share out the volume using AFP, and then edit the clips from within FCP on that?
I don't like it. Performance won't be good.
Especially with Xsan 1.2 -- 1.3 is a lot better with AFP resharing, but still, the point of Xsan with FCP is so you can edit "online," and online means over fibre.
I also don't like FCP 4.5 -- I'd suggest getting up to 5.1, if you're going to use it with Xsan.
Finally, I wouldn't suggest you run the AFP service on the MDC machine. Your setup isn't one I would consider optimal. I might not even call it adequate. I may be missing the big picture, but I'd say you're cutting enough corners to be heading for "whitewater."

Changing color in motion template "Pulse"

Just installed new FCS and I am working with the motion template "Pulse". I can change the background color but cannot figure out how to change the yellow animated circles/graphics. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!

Nice example Alan!
rodolfo68 - Alan's tip is perfect for simple color changes, but as an additional tip, you can also select the Behavior and in the Inspector, where it says Add, you can select the Glow>Color option. From here you can either change the color, or start to animate it as part of the behavior.

Convert 30fps Motion template to 24fps

I found info on the boards about converting 24fps to 30, but that does not seem to work in reverse.
I have several (400+) motion templates created at 29.97, which I occasionally need to use at 24fps. When I drop them in the 24fps timeline in FCP, they are fine until rendering, at which point they get truncated. A 12 second intro, although still 12 seconds, only shows approximately the first 9 seconds of the template and abruptly ends.
As a quick workaround, I tried simply fading it out at a convenient point in the intro, so it wouldn't look bad. However, changing the opacity forced a re-render and somehow it still didn't fade out at the right point. For now, I've been creating a separate sequence at 29.97 with just the intro, filling the drop zones, titles, etc, exporting a QT movie, bringing it into compressor to transcode to 24fps and then re-importing into the original timeline.
I tried creating a new 24fps project in motion, copying all the layers from the 29.97 template project and pasting them in, but that also didn't work. To show the whole project, it needed to be approximately 14 seconds. Is there a way, short of completely recreating the projects from scratch, to get this to work? And yes, I know this may all become horribly broken in a few weeks when they release the new version.

I'm sorry I don't have a good answer aside from what you're trying - rendering out a QT movie and putting that in your timeline...
Patrick

How to update motion templates in the timeline

If I add a motion template to a sequence, then decide to chance the motion template, how can i update all instances of that template in the timeline?

It may be too late now, but in the future, if you plan to use a motion template repeatedly (with the same settings) and consider changing it later, one possible way to achieve that may be to enclose it in a compound clip, since all instances of compound clips are automatically updated when one of them is. But of course by doing this you'll lose the ability to separately tweak the parameters for different instances.

Is there a way to import a Motion template in FCPX, IF you DON'T have Motion on the computer.

I am working with another editor that has FCPX, but not Motion. I created some lower 3rd templates in Motion that I would like him to use. Is there any way to import motion5 templates in to FCPX if the user does not have the Motion application?

The titles you made in Motion are located in your movies folder. the path is ~/user/movies/Motion Templates/Titles. Your other editor needs to create that file path in his machine and then drop your titles in the Titles folder and FCPX will see them. ie He needs to create a Motion Templates folder and a Titles folder inside of it and then drop in your title folders. Make sure the folders are correctly named and I believe they are case sensitive. Just duplicate what you see in your movies folder.

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