Filter and Motion tabs...

I want to save a Window layout with my Effects, Filters, and Motion tabs in their own space. Upon launch, they are always back where they originate, or not there at all. And when I double click a clip in the timeline the filters tab re-appears in the viewer window. Any way I can override this feature?

I don't think you can change this. I have tried many times to seperate the tabs from their original windows but they always return open reopening that window or returning to FCP. It seems as if the window locations can only be saved but no locations when tearing off tabs.

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Blur Filter and Motion Tweens

Hello, I am creating an animation in which about 5 movie
clips that have blur filters move across the screen. One movie clip
starts with a gradient blur filter, and moves up the screen while
the blur disappears. This movie clip seems to slow down everything
completely.
Is there any way to speed this up a bit?
here is a link to my very rough work in progress (note: the
swf is very slow):
swf
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Cheers for any insight!
P

I don't know that I have any good news for you on this one. I
had a similar situation where I wanted to create four 'blurry'
spotlights that roamed the screen along tween paths. What I found
was that having four different shaped 'lights' in stationary
positions, but all contained within a single movie clip with one
blurred filter was my best solution.
What may work for you is putting the five movie clips inside
one movie clip and blurring the 'containing' clip.

Why can't i access filters and motion for nested composition

i expect to be able to treat a nested composition just like a clip and double click it to access the filters and motion tabs. instead i get kicked back to the original composition. not what i would expect from reading the help section on nested compositions.
thanks!
(first time forum user -- not sure how to find reply -- send to <Edited out by hosts for your protection> if you wouldn't mind)

i expect to be able to treat a nested composition just like a clip and double click it to access the filters and motion tabs.
then you expect wrong! double-clicking an item "opens" that item ... so if you double click a "clip" then it opens into the viewer, but if you double-click a "nest" then it opens into the timeline
you can access the filters and motion tabs for that "clip" by selecting it in the timeline (single click) and then pressing Enter (or Return), or by dragging it from the timeline and dropping it onto the viewer window.
ps welcome to the forum, Inga ... if you can handle the complexities of FCP then I'm pretty sure you can figure out this forum!

FCP motion tabs and things

When I am im (for example) the motion tab in FCP, and i want to increase a slide (say the scale slider) how do i increase the scale by an increment of 1 at a time. The only wa i see of doing this is
-typing in a new figue
-moving the slider
In horrid Avid I would press the up or down arrow and the settings would change accordingly so it's easy to fine tune and not be guessng figures...there musy be a way of doing this in FCP?
MacPro, (and others!) Mac OS X (10.4.9) Quad core 3Ghz, Kona LHe, 8 gig RAM, 3TB fibre channel,RAID, 30" ACDisplay

Doh.. am i being thick here? < </div>
Well, yes, you are, but we are all members of the DOH! Club.
Some of us won't admit it.
You are going to find that the increments on some of those FCP motion and effects sliders are nonlinear or completely nonsensical.
bogiesan

Can't open Library and Inspector tab

Hi,
I can't open the Library and Inspector tab and can't activate the Add Behavior and Add Filter function. Can anyone help me to fix that?
Thanks.

try trashing the preference file called com.apple.motion.plist its found in (Your account)>Library>Preferences. then empty your trash
this is a common topic.
also search the forum before posting sometimes, you might find your answer plus alot a useful info....

Motion tab over-rides anything in Filters tab

If I use some filters in the 'Filters' tab, and then decide I want to use the 'Motion' tab to zoom/tilt/etc a picture and use keyframes to give it a little action, FCE seems to be ignoring anything on the Filters tab (as though Motion is over-riding Filters)... is there a way around this?

Keep in mind that within the same clip FCE processes filters first and Motion second: however, what you see in the canvas or the viewer window is always the +result of both effects combined+.
Namely if your filter has a point control (e.g. Reflection Center in the Perspective/Mirror filter) the red crosshair displayed on the frame, and also its new value when you click on the frame, is positioned where you expect if Motion has default settings, and it is offset somewhere else otherwise.
I know, this is quite confusing: my suggestion is that you apply the filters first (no Motion), and only when you are satisfied with them you apply Motion.
If you don't want to lose your Motion settings, you could first save them in another clip and copy them back after applying the filter: select the source clip and copy (cmd-C), and select the target clip and past attributes (opt-V) selecting Basic Motion in the dialog.
Piero

How do you change the default setting in the motions tab?

Greetings!
We have two macs in our editing suite. Both are running FCP studio 2. One of the macs has a default setting for the drop shadow of 2 in the motion tab. The other mac has the default setting of 10. How can I change the default settings (not as a favorite) so that when I open a clip in the viewer the default setting will always be my preference (1.5) instead of the standard 10. I also want to change the opacity to 90% as the default.
Thanks for your help.
YmirJr

Larry, et.al.
Below is a step-by-step process for changing the default font in CS6, Illustrator, Mac, Mountain Lion, 10.8.2.
There are several additiional steps needed to make this work.
Please feel free to us this for other inquiries.
To Change Default Font in CS6-Ai-Mac-Mountain Lion, 10.8.2
On desktop menu bar, hold down Option key, go to GO, pull down to Library.
Open Application Support, ~ Adobe, ~ Adobe Illustrator CS6, ~ en_us ~ New Document Profiles
Six choices appear (you can change each that you use, one at a time)
Example: Double click Basic RGB.ai
A Basic RGB.ai blank document window opens
In Menu Bar, go to Window ~ Type ~ Character Styles
A sub-window opens with (Normal Character Style) highlighted in Blue
Double click the highlighted name and another sub-window opens
In left of this window, choose Basic Character Formats
Change to desired Font Family, Font Style, Size, etc.
Click OK when finished, widow disappears to reveal Character Styles sub-window
Click anywhere on the blank document in order to get option to Save
Save the document
Close Character Styles sub-window
Quit Illustrator
Re-launch Illustrator CS6 ~ New document … check Font tool to confirm changed default font
Hope this works for other "Lost Adobe Souls" like myself.
George

Ease in/out of effect in Motion TAB ?

From the Motion tab inside FCP-
Is there a way to create an ease IN/OUT of a size or rotation change?
example:
I have a rotating postcard graphic that snaps into it's final position and I would like it to ease into that resting spot with more grace.

This is covered in the Final Cut Pro user manual.
Chapter 67, "Adjusting Parameters for Keyframed Effects", in the section "Controlling Speed Along a Motion Path" on page 1123 of the pdf file found in the application's Help menu bar item.

Ease-in ease-out weirdness in motion tab FCP

I've been doing a lot of animating stills in FCP by keyframing SCALE and CENTRE in the MOTION TAB of the VIEWER. I discovered the EASE-IN and EASE-OUT options by control-clicking the end key frames, but when I play back the animated clip, it does these weird lateral curve motions despite my only animating the still in a straight line. How do you ease-in a still and ease-out without this weird motion action occurring? Anyone sorted that? Do I have to use *After Effects* or Motion, or can it be done well in FCP ?

Try moving the image with Anchor Point instead. Some time ago, Tom Wolsky posted the following reply to a thread that is long-gone:
+Let's say you're zooming into a picture. You're starting say a scale of 20% centered on the screen and you going to scale up to 100%, and as you zoom in (scale) you want to move to the upper right corner of the image. Scaling takes place around the anchor point. The anchor point is normally the center of the image. As you move toward the upper right you're actually scaling around a point that's moving farther and farther away from where you're going. This causes overshoot, especially if the scale and center values are eased. (Scaling is not exponential anyway so this exacerbates the problem.) If you animate the anchor point to move opposite the center point, the scaling will continue to happen around the anchor point, which is now moving with you toward where you're going. It'll give you a bit better motion, but you still have to give yourself a little wiggle room.+
+Let me give you some numbers. I'm starting with an image that's 3600x2670. At it's start the image is centered and scaled to 24%. I can't go all the way to 20% because I'll get overshoot on the start when I put on easing because scale is logarithmic, while center is arithmetic. At the end of the motion the image is scaled to 100. It's center is now -1335, 932. (Again because of overshoot I can't go much closer to the edge.) Easing is set for center and scale, and as I'm sure you've seen you get the image sliding off the screen even with leaving the slack that I did. Now add the anchor point animation. Set the start keyframe at 0,0 the same as the center point. Set the end keyframe to 1335, -932, the opposite of the center keyframe and you'll get a motion that stays in the screen. If you could set easing for the anchor point it would be even smoother, but that's not practical in the FCP interface. You get a little snaking effect at the end. All in all pretty inadequate for good motion control.+
+I tried it Motion as well. The first problem is the application can't handle the image at full resolution. It could do the movement with scale animation and a motion path behavior. It was kind of adequate, but easing on the scaling was pretty poor and didn't achieve good results.+
+A major issue in both applications is the the scaling starts quickly and gets slower and slower. This is because of the lack of exponential scaling, and until this is addressed neither application will be more than barely adequate at best when it comes to large scale motion control. Basically neither of them are acceptable for professional work on large format, large scale images. I won't even go into how totally inadequate FCP is for easing stop and go motion.+

Motion tab

ok, heres what i want to do, i have a clip that i have 'frozen' and at the point where it freezes or pauses, i , using the motion tab, adjusted the scale of the image so that over time (3-4 seconds) there is a zoom in effect (its like what they do in the beck video 'devils haircut' ). The problem that i have is that i want to zoom in towards the top right hand corner of the image but it zooms in towards the center. Now i thought it might be sorted by using the 'anchor point ' or 'center' options under the motion tab but as yet have had no success, i'm hoping one of you out there can help me.
Thank. Anthony

Add a center keyframe at the begining of your zoom and the end of your zoom.
On the second position keyframe (where you are zoomed all the way in) adjust your x,y coordinates until you see the framing you want to end on.
Tweak to taste.
Tom

Motion Tab Settings & Center Point

Working in Final Cut Express HD, I am trying to use wireframes and the motion tab setting to run a series of cropped clips in a "box" in the corner of the screen. I do this by reducing Scale and Crop Left and Right to certain, set values. But since i am cropping different parts of different clips, I need to figure out what the Center Point settings should be for each one so that the "box" is always in the exact same spot on the screen -- even as it cuts from clip to clip inside the box. Using the naked eye to place the frame on a grid is not precise enough...
In other words, if I am cropping 25 off the left in one clip, and 15 left and 10 right on another, I need to know how many "Center Point" coordinates equate to 1 "Crop" point in those Motion Tab settings to make it fit exactly.
Any ideas or help would be GREATLY appreciated! Many thanks.

But doesn't that ONLY work if each and every clip is cropped in exactly the same way? In other words, if a "box" is 50% wide and 100% tall, and i use one clip that takes the left 50% and then use another clip that uses the right 50%...and I want them both to places in the upper left corner of the screen, won't they have different X and Y center points?

FCP - Quits when using pen tool to enter nodes in the motion tab

Hi all.
I'm encountering a persistent problem with FCP unexpectedly quitting on both version 4.5HD and version 5. The problem occurs when I open a clip from the timeline in the viewer and access the motion tab to adjust the scale of a clip or the position of a clip with the pen tool. I can enter four nodes successfully with no problems, but if I then go back to the clip or open a new one, I can enter maybe three nodes maximum before they cease to register, then the beachball appears for half a second and FCP quits with the "unexpected" message.
This problem occurs across all machines whether I'm running FCP by itself or with other applications running in the background. I am using 10.4.6 on my laptop (iBook G4 with 1GB of RAM and FCP 4.5HD), 10.3.9 and FCP 4.5HD on an eMac, 10.4.6 and FCP Studio 5.0.4 on a G4 Tower ...
Has anyone experienced a similar problem, and does anyone have any thoughts on causes/fixes for it?
Thanks for reading.
L.
Either: iBook G4, eMac, G4 Tower, Mac-Mini, 20" Intel iMac Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Hi John,
Thanks. I figured it out so there’s no need.
Aloha,
Rick Doyle
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How to Unhide "Motion" tab.

Okay, I did something to the "Motion" tab in my viewer. I cannot find it anymore. I think I did a "Close Tab", but now don't know how to get it back. I searched the manual, and the forums here, but cannot find the answer. Anyone know how to restore that tab? I would much appreciate it.
Thx

Trying to replicate your problem I first dragged the Motion tab out of the Viewer window: this makes a stand-alone window for Motion and removes Motion from the Viewer.
Then I applied ctrl-U and the new Motion window disappeared... in fact I found it was well hidden behind the Canvas window.
Then, when closing the stand-alone Motion window or when opening a different clip in the viewer, the Motion tab appeared again in the Viewer window.
I'm not sure what happened in your case, but in my experience closing any tab in the viewer behaves as you were closing the whole viewer (that is replaced by the standard slug viewer), and closing the stand-alone Motion window moves the Motion tab back to the open viewer.
Piero

Can't find 'displace' filter in Motion 5?

Searched for displace filter in Motion 5 but doesn't come up. Still working and visible in older projects though?
Why has Apple got rid of the displace filter? It's one of my favourites!

No Problem - Broken might have been a bit harsh. I had a ramp behaviour attached to the Displace filter and the values in the ramp behaviour were reset to zero when I opened the project in motion 5.
Oddly, I *do* have a displace filter. Check it out:

FCP7 viewer (motion tab) vs FCPX inspector ??

I'm a FC express 4 (almost similar to FCP7) user, I want to change to FCPX. I'm running a trial version, there are reasonable good changes, but there is 1 important thing missing.
The viewer window is missing, in the viewer you could find the tabs video, filters, motion, etc... And this for one object (picture or video).
In these tabs Filters and Motion you could see different "timelines", in these timelines you could click bullets or markers. See example below.
In FCPX there is the inspector. But there are no timelines like explained here above. You can mark, change an effect or movement; but these marks you can't find them in any timeline...
Is there a way to find something similar on FCPX?
I've googled it, I've found nothing.
If someone could help me
Best regards,
Kristof

There is a sort of Viewer similar to legacy FCP/Ex.
You switch it on if you want it in the Window menu, Show Event Viewer.
FCP X has a completely different UI so it's best to forget about how things used to be done.
All the functions are there but a different looking set of tools are used and they are put into a different place.
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