Anamorphic from Motion back to FCP

Hi all...
quick question.....
tried to find the answer but no success....
I have a widescreen project on FCP, send a clip to motion to work on, motion being set to wide (anamorphic) as well, when I save and close the motion project and come back to FCP, the clip is a 4:3(not anamorphic) on my anamorphic sequence...
quite annoying......
Any one knows why?

no the flag doesn't disappear on its way to Motion, its on its way back to FCP that something wrong happens..
Sorry, in re-reading what I wrote, I understand that it could be misconstrued - I meant that the anamorphic flag of a Motion project in FCP isn't read correctly (and that is a known issue).
As Adam mentions, you can alter the Distort property. Or tag it as anamorphic in the Browser.

Similar Messages

  • Sending from motion back to FCP

    I highlight a sequnce or clip and SEND TO "Motion" and choose inbed content,
    I make my effects and FILE<SAVE in motion and FCP reads a change. The video i sent was anamorfic DV 16/9. In motion I edited the fotage in 16/9 . when FCP reads the saved motion project it makes the clip squeeze to 4/3 in FCP. then i have to go into item properties and check the anamorfic box. Is there a setting that stops this switch of ASPECT RATIO's?
    Does everybody have to do this when working in anamorfic DV?

    I've heard this a number of times - You've just gotta set the anamorphic flag by hand. If you report it in FCP/Motion feedback, perhaps it'll get bumped up in priority...
    Patrick

  • PROBLEM SOLVED "export clips from Color back into FCP & add transition"

    If I have two clips that you cannot place a transition in between here is the only thing that worked for me.
    I discovered this problem after I exported my movie clips from FCP 6 to Color and imported the color corrected files from Color back into FCP 6. I could no longer add transitions to any of my clips unless I made the following changes.
    1. 1st check to see if the video clip has an audio track underneath it. If they are not linked Select the audio and the video track to be linked, hit Command "L" and you will see an underline under the audio and video name to show that they are now linked. Do the same for the adjoining video and audio track.
    2. Next select all of the clips after the video clip you just selected by typing "tttt" this changes to the "Select All Tracks Forward Tool". Click on the track after the video track you just linked and it will select all of the tracks thereafter. Hit the "A" button to change back to the selection tool and move all of the selected tracks away from the previous video/audio track.
    3. Next type "RR" this will change to the "Ripple" tool. Now click on end of the video track on the previous video clip and type -15 (for negative 15 frames). Then click on the beginning of other video clip to the right that you linked and type +15 (for plus 15 frames).
    4. Type "tttt" to change back to the "Select All Tracks Forward Tool" the hit the "A" button to change back to the selection tool and drag all tracks back together again.
    5. You may then drag and drop your transition in between both video clips.
    I hope this helps someone...this is the only thing that worked for me!!!
    Number1talent

    I am working with mostly DVCPro ftg, with a few clips in MiniDV.  I did have roughly 10 clips with speed changes, but they exported fine two weeks ago, when I did this the first time.  (Actually, it didn't keep the speed changes, but it did export with media to FCP). 
    The clips do have reel numbers and seem to be of the right length per clip but there's just no picture and no assoicated media with which to relink the clip.
    I'm on Color 1.5.3
    Any possible ideas?  Thank you for your help...

  • Audio Synch from Color back to FCP

    I am sending a short sequence with 8 clips or so to color, adding a color fx to half of the clips, rendering all of the clips, inc. the ones without an effect added, and sending back to fcp. When I open the new color sequence, the audio is out of synch by a few seconds. Any ideas why?

    Any ideas why?
    Not really, but it has been a continuing problem. You're sure it is the audio that is out of sync, and not the video? (Just checking) There are a lot of complaints, especially with HDV about frame drift.
    Best solution is to lift the audio from the previous timeline and paste it into the graded (from COLOR) sequence. Even when a mixed stereo final is part of the workflow, it almost never comes back the same, so most, if not all, users avoid sending and retrieving audio as part of the COLOR roundtrip. In my experience, even if it somehow mysteriously lands back in sync, the pan settings are all slammed over to one side.
    So we all just pull the original audio forward from the previous sequence and Apple can go onward in its delusional mindstate.
    jPo

  • Send from Color back to FCP

    At the point of sending color corrected files back to FCP from Color a window entitled "Send To Sequence Option" come up with the message: "Change graded Final Cut Pro sequence to match the Quicktime export codec?"
    I'm using Apple Intermediate Codec in my FCP project and want to keep re-compression to a minimum. Being new to Color I'm not actually sure what is a stake here. If I press "No" does that mean my work within Color will be wasted or will if actually keep the color corrected footage in the Apple Intermediate Codec? I'm not anxious to switch codecs if I don't have to.
    Anyone have info on this?

    Stuart:
    I am having the same trouble and am really mystified. I am working on an XDCAM EX 1080p24 35Mb timeline in FCP. I send all my files to Color, do corrections, and when I am ready to send my graded timeline back, I am asked whether or not to "change graded Final Cut Pro sequence to match the Quicktime export codec?"
    Here's the mystery - if I click "yes", the sequence sent back to my browser in FCP is a 10 bit uncompressed sequence which will not play back smoothly for editing. Worse, if I click "no" the sequence comes back in what appears (according to sequence settings) to be an XDCAM EX 1080p24 35Mb timeline, but it also stutters, hesitates and won't play back, just like the 10 bit sequence, making editing impossible. (No rendering is necessary on this sequence when it is sent back from Color).
    I have no problem playing the original XDCAM files on their timeline, but no matter what I do, I can't get my XDCAM files to come back to me graded from Color and play smoothly on their new sequence timeline even though Settings says it is exactly the same kind of timeline as the original.
    Does anyone have any idea what is happening here and is there something I am doing wrong?
    Thanks, Rick

  • Roundtripping  from FCP to Motion back to FCP

    I need to change a dip to black I created in FCP (using opacity) but I've already sent the sequence to motion!! How can I change make edits now with the motion file in the timeline?

    Also, if you did it with opacity, the clip in Motion will reflect that, so you can right/ctrl-click on the Motion clip, select Open in Editor and adjust within Motion.

  • Export from Motion - Soft in FCP

    I created a graphic in motion, output it into fcp and the type and graphics are a bit soft.
    The export was to a DVCPro DV Quicktime file.
    Anyone else notice this?

    How do you fake a roundtrip?
    I think I was talking out of my left nostril there.
    What I meant was something like sending a clip on a roundtrip through motion, though you don't use the clip at all. Thus avoiding the file step.
    Now I think it's a terribly ill-conceived idea.
    Somebody else just posted the same problem, as far as I can tell:
    http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=816621&tstart=0
    This makes it a Real Issue.

  • Workflow that maintains clip handles going from FCP to Motion & back

    I have a 25 minute Final Cut Pro sequence that consists of about 200 clips each about 7 seconds long. Each clip has a different linear speed change applied to it. I've already run the project through Media Manager, adding 5 second handles to each clip. I've been told by my color corrector that before sending the project to him I should send all the clips to Motion and apply optical flow for the speed changes there. The short version of my question is: Can I trouble anyone to suggest an efficient workflow in which I can send the entire sequence to Motion and have it make the round trip back to FCP as a sequence in which the motion files have been swapped in for the original clips and the handles of the original clips have been maintained on those Motion files?
    What I've been doing is selecting the sequence in FCP and sending it to Motion. Once the sequence is in Motion I seem to have to apply optical flow to each of the 200 clips individually rather than to the group a whole, because with multiple clips selected Motion seems to want to apply the same averaged-out time remap to all of them. So I apply optical flow to the 200 clips one-by-one and Motion inevitably crashes several times during that process. After I've finally set all the clips individually to optical flow I then select the clips and choose export selection. I then have to wait by my computer for several hours while Motion asks me over and over again "Some optical flow files are outdated. What do you want to do?" I assume these prompts are the result of the Motion having crashed while the clip was still being analyzed for optical flow. Finally when this process is done, I have a series of clips without handles that I have to tediously re-import back into the original FCP sequence.
    I'm using FCP 7.03 and Motion 4.0.3.
    Any thoughts anyone might have would be HUGELY appreciated!!! Thanks in advance for the help!
    Best,
    Neil

    Hi Neil,
    About the handles: What do you need them for?
    If the edit is not too complicated and almost all on V1, you can think of a workaround which is very tedious, and I doubt whether it will make you happy.
    On V1 the original cuts. So you will always be able to find them back.
    Then Copy everything to V2. And from there put every other clip on V3. (So clip A on V2, clip B on V3 , clip C on V2, etc. And now by selecting the cuts and type +500 or -500, you can extend the clips.
    Like in the picture below.
    Again V1 is the original edit and is there to repair the cuts on V2 and V3 later on.
    (I used slug and Generators for this exemple. Off course they all stand for normal clips.)
    After that you do your Motion Magic, like Patrick explained.
    And back in FCP cut V2 and V3 back like V1 is.
    Delete V1, and done.
    Well, that's the theorethical part. I hope it somehow can help you in practice, because I assume your edit will be more complicated then the example...
    I once did this trick with
    Also: When you send your normal clip to Motion (So from track V1, then in Motion you can increase the value in the duration Tab (Timeline, top right, then extend the clip and then save. You know can use the handle in FCP. Not sure how to achieve that for the beginning of the clip. You should try that yourself....
    Rienk

  • Animation not carried over from Motion to FCP

    In my FCP project, I sent a clip to Motion. In Motion, I imported another motion file of a car with spinning wheels that I made earlier and used that in the new Motion clip, along with some additional animation. Now, when I go back to FCP the car is visible, the additional animation is also visible, but not the spinning wheels. Is it not possible to embed Motion files within Motion?
    When I export the clip from Motion directly to a QuickTime movie, everything is fine. But I'd rather don't go that route because it's much easier to move between FCP and Motion automatically.
    Can someone please enlighten me? Thanks!

    I'm guessing Final Cut is not referring back to the Motion file correctly.  If that is the case here's a fix.
    Open your Motion file back up (recent projects if you aren't sure what it is) and resave it by a different name somewhere you can easily find it.  Alternatively you can export is a ProRes4444 clip if you don't want to have to render it on your FCP timeline.
    Return to the clip in Final Cut.  Control-click on the clip that should be a Motion document and pick "Reconnect Media."  Point Final Cut to the resaved/exported Motion file you created.  You may have to uncheck the box about showing only media with the same reel name.  Hit Connect.

  • Fuzzy video upon round trip export from motion to FCP

    I'm using Motion 4 to add master template lower thirds to my FCP video. When I bring a clip from final cut into motion (send to>Motion) then send it back to FCP after I add my text, the video itself looks as if it has taken on a slight blurriness. I checked that my project settings were the exact same by going to project properties in motion and making sure everything matched up with my sequence settings in fcp. They did. Am I missing a step here? I'm tempted to not roundtrip through motion because of this. Instead I'd like to just open the master template in FCP and use that. The reason I don't is because I do not have control over font color and other adjustments.
    Can anyone suggest a fix or point out what I'm doing wrong?
    Thanks in advance.

    See if this post helps:
    http://discussions.apple.com/click.jspa?searchID=-1&messageID=13075996
    Patrick

  • Flicker/Pixelized movie after importing from motion into FCP

    Hello, I captured a clip from HDV tape via Firewire using log and capture in FCP, then exported the clip to Motion where I applied filiters. I made a movie from Motion and imported it back in FCP. The movie required rendering to play and it now has a flicker and is grossly pixelized. Anyone know what could be causing this?

    The render requirement is not surprising - all motion clips require rendering. How are you viewing your clip? You can't judge by what you see in the canvas...
    Patrick

  • Sent my project to motion, did motion stuff, saved. Now back 2 FCP -how?

    The title says it. I just need to get my motion work to show up in FCP and I'm done. I followed a tutorial from macprovideo.com but it's not working. How do I do it?

    I'll have to go back and check some things. The thing I wanted to import was a bunch of animated titling that I did in motion independently of the FCP project. What I did was open FCP, send to Motion, in motion I copied the titling and fine tuned it to the video and then saved. When I toggled back to FCP none of it was there.
    I finally imported the motion file but it over-wrote my FCP video track and all my processing/filters with it. I went back to motion and disabled the video track (sent from FCP to motion without processing for some reason) that I used to fine tune the titles, then imported that sans video version. This allowed me to save all my FCP video filters and such. However none of it was exactly how I expected it to work.
    Was it the fact that I did all that titling in an independent project and then imported it into a new motion project that has caused my troubles?

  • Can't open quicktime movie that I exported from Motion 5 and can't import to FCP

    Can't open quicktime movie that I exported from Motion 5 and can't import to FCP 7.
    I exported (with current settings) from Motion 5 now i can't view my movie with QT Player an FCP
    won't recognize it.
    That's the message I get ?
    I'm running Mac OSX but still on FCP 7 (upgrading to FCP X is NOT an option)
    Thanks a lot for any sugestions
    luxbud

    Thanks TOny
    i think it was just a problem during the export. i tried a second time and it just worked fine

  • FCP not reading templates correctly from Motion (Urgent)

    Hi all,
    I am trying to work in FCP (6.06) with templates created in Motion 3.0.2 But FCP seems to be seeing video drop zones as text layers!?
    If I use a pre-existing template (or one I have created), when I bring it in to FCP I get the correct amount of input dialogue boxes for the amount of layers in the template, but regardless of whether they are drop zones or text layers the control dialogue box in FCP looks the same and I am unable to actually get anything to appear correctly on the timeline. It's driving me nuts!!
    Also: when I have a template on my FCP timeline I am unable to save the project! I delete the template from the timeline and am able to save the project again...
    Even weirder: I'm getting the same result on two machines!!
    Any Ideas what could be causing this!? (i've tried software update and re-start)
    Best
    GK

    Thank you to those who replied. By further process of elimination I have discovered that Motion does not recognize the ProRes 4444 Alpha Channel. When using a clip with the Animation Codec, it reads the alpha channel perfectly. The ProRes 4444 Clips I exported from Motion with Alpha work perfectly in After Effects ... so clearly Apple has a bug to fix

  • Resolution/Sidebars From Motion to FCP

    Hey guys,
    Absolute noobie here, so please bear with me; I am following the tutorials on the apple FCS DVD and am onto the Motion section, i have done the whole 'send to montion' on the "Blue Horizon" bit and I've just done command save and popped back into FCP.
    My problem now is that my end clip in FCP has the vertial black bars on the side, so the clip is squished in the middle (nothing has been trimmed, its simply been squashed smaller than everything else. there are no black bars on the top or bottom). I'm not sure if i followed the tutorial incorrectly (i redid it twice) but i always end up with the same thing.
    Could anyone help me as to why its out of whack? and how do i fix it

    Welcome to the discussions. Search is your friend:
    http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=3874114&#3874114
    Patrick

Maybe you are looking for