Export a clip to Motion

Is it possible to export a clip or a group of clips from either the timeline or the event browser in FCP X and have them open in Motion 5?
Thanks
David

[Roundtripping is so not on my feature list...]
Out of FCPX, simply Share > Export Movie as ProRes, any "flavor" (even Proxy should have adequate bandwidth for excellent results.) [Don't confuse proxy media in FCPX with ProRes 422 Proxy which is a full resolution format that has a bandwidth of approximately 45Mbps for 1080/30p video. Proxy media in FCPX is ProRes 422 but 1/4 resolution (i.e., 1080 video is downconverted to 960x540.)]
You can drop the video into Motion (set your project to accommodate the length of the clip, or all the clips you need), do your thing, then Share > Export out of Motion and bring the video back into FCPX.
The way I figure it, the difference between the "new way" for Motion 5 and the old roundtripping is maybe one extra rendering.
With Motion 5, you don't need the video from FCPX. You design your effect and as soon as you save it, it's available in FCPX. There is a placeholder provided (with the exception of generator templates, for which they are simply not necessary.) If you need a "reference", you can export a still and load it into the placeholder while you design, then delete it when your finished.
The way Motion 5 and FCPX work together is so much better and more efficient than the old way of FCPStudio roundtripping.

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This must be pretty basic, but I've tried several things with the same results. I just want to get a 12 second clip from my FCP timeline into a new Motion project, but when I hilight the clip in the timeline and "send to Motion", in Motion I get the entire clip that was originally captured, (which was 20 minutes), not the edited clip. How do I send just the clip from the timeline to Motion?
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I just set in and out points of a clip bringing it into the timeline at just over 5 seconds.
Clicked on the clip, and right click to send to a Motion project. Got the dialog box, and named it, and it opened in Motion at the 5 second length.
Are you up to date with the latest versions of FCP 5.0.4. and Motion 2.0.x?
best wishes
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How can you export a clip selection from FCPX to motion? Round tripping?

How do you export a clip selection out of FCP into Motion? In Motion, you have the option of exporting a selection out of motion? I don't understand why FCPX does not have this functionality. I do not want to export an effect or transition. FCPX is good, but it looks like the application team have no clue about workflows. Especially integration between FCP and Motion.

Not sure if you are asking a question or having a rant .. also not sure what your point is about it being 2013 ? Roundtripping is not in these apps .. sold for very little (relative to FCS which did roundtripping) and most of the functionality used daily from Motion is now in FCPX in one way or another. Perhaps it would be a 'handy' but to highlight this as some BIG deal is a tad missing the point ... .
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These may help you with the basics of new compound clips ...
http://play.macprovideo.com/finalcutprox103-editing-in-the-magnetic-timeline/1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZdjTtF8Qqo
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There are no changes in the motion tab.
This clip is probably the best example because my family is bouncing in a tube while being pulled by a boat.
Viewing in FCE4.0.1:
http://gallery.me.com/brutewolf#100011/3%20in%20a%20tube%20FCE&bgcolor=black
After exporting:
http://gallery.me.com/brutewolf#100011/3%20in%20a%20tub%20after%20export&bgcolor =black
The clip project properties include vid rate 29.97, frame size 1440 x 1080, upper field dominance, and ignore alpha.
It's difficult for me to tell if this is precisely the same frame (because of rapid motion, a transition, and no frame indicator in QuickTime) but it appears that the converted file is zoomed in with a slightly different aspect ratio. Is that a separate issue? The aspect ratio isn't terribly noticeable, but I think the shake artifact is.
This converted file was the one that was then converted in MPEG streamclip to a mp4 file (which eliminated the shake) and posted to YouTube here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iguy39hTFps

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Hi Premiere experts,
I am a brand new Premier user with an old v6 on a Windows 7 machine.
I am trying to animate a clip's motion along a motion path... and now I figured out how to import a graphic clip in to the project window, put it in the timeline and then drag that clip to the "Effect Controls" palette, and I'm now in the "Motion settings dialog box".
But I want my graphic clip to have a transparent background so hopefully I'll be able to put it on top of another image so it will appear to be moving on that background image... I made my base graphic file a GIF with a transparent background so hopefully that would work for this purpose, but I can see when I select a background color in the "Motion settings dialog box", that my graphic clip does not take on the background color.
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Hi Bill and other experts,
Below are the paragraphs in the Premiere 6 instructions that apply to my questions... I found this information about rendering the background of an image clip graphic as transparent so it will take on the color or image that is behind it, but then the information in these paragraphs does not tell me these things:
1- Where is the Alpha Channel key? - Can't find this in the instructions.
2- Where is the Transparency Settings dialog box? - Can't find this in the instructions.
3- Where is the Export Settings dialog box? - Can't find this in the instructions.
I've saved my PSD graphic file with a "straight" alpha channel that defines the area of the image that should be treated as transparency, but the questions above are the stopping points to getting these methods (described below in paragraphs copied from the instructions) to work.
Also at the bottom here there is a paragraph about previewing in the monitor window... one method works but the main method of just hitting enter is still giving me an error message.
Using the Alpha Channel Key
Images represented on video are composed of three grayscale images called channels--one red, one green, and one blue. Such images are called RGB images. An alpha channel is a fourth channel in an RGB image that defines what parts of the image are transparent or semitransparent. Many programs, such as Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, use alpha channels so that you can specify transparent regions in an image. An alpha channel is either straightpremultiplied, depending on the program that created the image. When an image contains a straight alpha channel, the transparency information is stored only in the alpha channel. When an image contains a premultiplied alpha channel, the background color that is intended to be transparent is also blended into the edges of an image. Use the Alpha Channel key on clips that contain a straight alpha channel, such as images created in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe After Effects.
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(Where is the Alpha Channel key? - Can't find this in the instructions)
Specifying alpha channel and color option
You can include a fill color and specify how Premiere treats the alpha channel of the clip.
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Reset - Removes the distortion, delay, rotation, and zoom settings for a selected keyframe.
Fill Color - Specifies a background color that fills the frame behind the moving clip. To select a background color, click the desired color on the thumbnail in the Fill Color box (the pointer turns into the eyedropper tool when it is on the thumbnail), or click the color swatch above the thumbnail to access the color picker and choose a color. This color appears in previews and the rendered video program only if the clip is placed in the Video 1 track.
Alpha: Use Clip's - Superimposes a clip using its existing alpha channel. This is the normal setting for titles or graphics created in another application that supports alpha channels, such as Adobe Photoshop. This option affects only those clips that have been assigned an alpha channel key type in the Transparency Settings dialog box. For information on alpha channels, see Using the Alpha Channel key.
(Where is the Transparency Settings dialog box? - Can't find this in the instructions)
Alpha: Create New - Creates a transparent fill for clips that do not have an existing alpha channel. With this option selected, an alpha channel is created for the areas in the clip that have been assigned a key type in the Transparency Settings dialog box. See Using the Alpha Channel key.
Note: - Choosing the Create New option for an image containing an alpha channel overwrites the original alpha channel when the image is superimposed.
Choosing Export Settings
As part of the process of exporting, check the options in the Export Settings dialog box. The initial export settings are the same as the settings you specified in the Project Settings dialog box when you first started the project. Export settings don't update as you work on your project, however, so it's a good idea to make sure that all export settings are still the ones you want. Although the Export Settings dialog box is similar to the Project Settings dialog box, important differences exist. For example, the Special Processing panel is included so that you can apply certain changes to all clips in the Timeline at export time, such as resizing, cropping, and noise reduction.
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Note: Some capture-card software and plug-in software provide their own dialog boxes with specific options. If the options you see are different that those described in Premiere's online Help refer to the documentation for your capture card or plug-in.
To preview motion in the Monitor window:
1 - Click OK to save and close the motion settings.
2 - Do one of the following:
Build a preview file: move the yellow work area bar so it covers the clip with the motion settings and press Enter (Windows) or Return (Mac OS).
THIS DOES NOT WORK - I GET AN ERROR MESSAGE THAT SAYS: "An error occured while making the movie. Error writing file (disk full?)." ... BUT MY DISK/HARD DRIVE IS NOT FULL - IT STILL HAS 40 GIGS OPEN ON IT.
Render-scrub the area you want to preview: hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS); when the cursor becomes a downward pointing arrow, scrub in the Timeline window's time ruler.
THIS WORKS WHEN SCRUBBING THE AREA TO PREVIEW IN THE TIMELINE.
Thanks for any help with these questions,
numetro

Transitions with FCP after bring clip to Motion

Here is my problem. I brought a clip into Motion, and applied some effects, etc...and it looks great so now it is in FCP. The next clip was not edited in motion, just a regular clip edited in FCP. When I apply a transition it doesn't let me change the length of the transition. I can successfully change the transition between 2 normal clips, but I'm unable to change the transition length between a clip that was edited in motion and a regular FCP clip. Any suggestions?

Did you export the Motion clip out of Motion, then import it into FCP? If so, then you lost your 'handles'.
Have you tried 'Send to Motion' from FCP...work on it there, then bring it back to FCP? That's probably the best workflow.
Either that or when you send a clip to Motion, make sure you include media prior to and after your known in/outs, so you have extra media to make a transition with, when you export it out of Motion.
K
EDIT - at the very least, you should be able to use a transition on your current Motion clip, but you'll need to make the transition work from within available media on the Motion clip...like 'beginning on' or 'ending on'.
Message was edited by: Kevan D. Holdsworth

How can I send clips to motion?

for working witt the clip in motion. I don't want to add transition, title etc.
I just want to send a specific lenght of an clip to work with that in motion, and after that send it back to final cut.

Round tripping is gone While Apple hopefully goes back and adds the missing features everyone is screaming about, you can just export the section of footage suggested by Tom OR Larwence in this post:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/15470873#15470873

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So when i use H264 i want to export H264
Nevertheless i have done some experiments here and came at the following conclusions
1) exporting using animation codec gives back 100% quality in the best speed
while this is back imported to Premiere and matched down with the original using Premiere scopes and the sequence's preview files being set to H264 gives back 100% the original, when i match it on avid (1 track the original AMA linked 2nd track the exported from Premiere (also AMA linked) ) the Avid's scopes are showing a minor shift in chroma and luma (which visually is non identified)
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I import a video - it is by default using the 50% quality impel in order to edit quickly and when it comes to export what do i do?
I use a different export codec than the one i used to edit?
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I try to switch the sequence's settings to a quicktime animation codec when i finish an edit (it losses the preview files generated by the impel codec) and then export using again the animation codec, but that;s me
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