Which behaviour are you using? I just tried adding the "Shine" behaviour. I extended the behaviour to the length of the project, changed the "Speed" to "Custom" and published the "Custom Speed" slider. Everything else is left as default.

This worked exactly as expected in FCPX, when the slider is moved the shine moves across the text, but when I add keyframes to animate from 0-100 nothing happens, this is the same (or appears the same) bug as has been in FCPX since day 1 in the "Text Inspector", it's the first time I have seen it in the "Title Inspector".

Animation in FCPX is very far from complete, but I'm confident that when the finish it this method will work, not great for the moment though.
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I recon your probably right Ronny, it could be worth a try but maybe it's just better avoiding non square pixels in FCPX all together.
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Can I throw a suggestion out there.

In 1 of the updates to Motion 5 I think a couple of snapshot presets got added. I hadn't remembered seeing them before, and at some time they seemed to appear. But the list is still very incomplete in comparison to the project presets available in FCPX.

The titles supplied with FCPX are created in motion with square pixel snapshots and even if you create a non square pixel Motion Project it gets a square pixel conversion snapshot applied for publishing to FCPX.

But custom presets can be made with non-square pixels. I've just gone through a pretty big job relating to creating multiple snapshots, but I don't work with non-square pixels anymore so I never tested for that.

If anyone has a bit of time they could test creating a basic title template with all the standard non-square pixel ratio snapshots. If it turns out it works I'm sure it would be welcomed by many.
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Can you email me with your budget and requirements please. My email is on my contacts page of my website. There is a link to my website on my profile page here on the forum.
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Try putting these folders in your Motion templates folder and see if they work.


[File Attachment: TransitionsandTitlesLocalized.zip]

David.
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That's it, you can't do it from the timeline. You've probably realised by now, selecting the clip in the timeline and hitting ⇧F gets you the range you pant to replace in the event.
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I'm curious to here your results. Mine have been very consistent from an event but not so from a project.
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Here's a new one that's recently appeared on Scottish TV. It's a long running thing about how the drink gets you through hard situations.

www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_profilepage&v=fX_K4mNTTI8

And a bit of a favourite that's been around for a few years now.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0twOUHbPFn0
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Nice, I want to know whats going on with render engines, that's the real make or break.
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Wow!!! 4k, steady cam rigs, etc. etc. I think this is a game changing moment, fantastic. Something we'll all look back on.

Does anyone know links to stats relating to video related projects (pre/production/post tools & software, and films etc.) on kick starter? Someone, who generally knows what he's talking about, told me that over all the amount of kick-starter projects (all areas) that get funded fail really quick or don't even get a real start after the initial funding.

Through previous experience relating to business planning I've thought this perhaps to relate to excitable funding for unprepared start ups. Maybe the pitch/product alone can sometimes be enough for investment without the preparation/organisation being considered?

Even so, initially it looks to me like we may have been doing well on there, and maybe we could go a lot further with it. It's kind of a new approach to the origins of the film making financing that became a power in its own.
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If you right click on a generator and add it to a compound clip you can use retiming/freeze frames on it.
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When you install/run Motion it creates the motion templates directory for you, the folder is called "Motion Templates.localized". Would I be right in assuming you have manually created a folder called "Motion Templates" and are putting the "titles" folder in there.

If so try copying the folder that appears to be called "Motion Templates", but is actually called "Motion Templates.localized" from the machine with Motion installed to the one without.
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FCPX is the first NLE that I've felt comfortable using my Wacom tablet with (which a good thing as I use it for everything else). I'm about to upgrade to the intros 5, this will be my first tablet with touch capabilities.

Has anyone any experience with the Wacom 5 on FCPX? I'm curious about what can be done with gestures, and maybe, hopefully, the touch ring. Could it perhaps allow me to clear desk space of my ShuttleXpress?
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I had this problem with the previous version, and one before that.

I tried trashing and reinstalling and the installer wouldn't run. Re-downloading the same installer and starting again worked. Damn gremlins.
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In my world, mainly corporate freelancing, it's not so much that I get asked what I edit on. It's more often I get told if I want the job it needs to be done on "such and such".

Most of the time this work resolves around After Effects, it is such an important, and widely used tool, that many workflows are based around it's use.

Often the core of the production company is based around very few people. Basically running producer/director roles and freelancing production/post roles out on a per job basis.

When it comes to post, they tends to have editing skills on Avid, Premeire, and/or FCP, but only ever tend to use 1 of them in their strict workflow. They freelance out to better spend their time on the business side of the things and they occasionally have limited AE skills.

As mentioned before this can mean different freelancers working on previous work. So they need to have everything done on the same tools. They want to be able to go back into an NLE their selfs to make little changes rather than paying out for them if and when needed. They need to know that if a graphics artist who done the previous version of and given health and safety video is currently unavailable they can go to the next guy on their books and give him all the previous work as a base.

In some worlds what you use to edit on is very important. The production companies are right to have needs, they save them money and that's the reason they have the needs. Not because of snobbery.

In general, in my world of small corporate production companies, I have always found the Premiere is king. Software/hardware combination is cheap and they can always find freelancers. Hopefully iMac/FCPX combined hardware/software costs could potentially change that.

For graphics everything is centred around AE until it goes into 3d. That's when everything opens up. These guys don't know how to go in and make changes anyway. As long as they have the elements that can be adjusted in AE or re-used at a later date, that's fine.

I think if resolve could work smoothly with AE they would be onto a massive winner.

I also think Resolve could take off pretty big, it could fit into the above workflows very well.
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This video starts of not in English, but it soon changes after the intro, so don't switch off if you don't understand.

It shows pretty nicely where Resolve is going in v10.
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This is interesting I'll be looking out for how that's going.

Here's something that crossed my mind recently. Imagine/dream that round tripping was possible between FCPX and AE, nothing fancy just like dynamic link is just now or legacy FCP was before.

It would have great benefits for FCPX editors, even those that don't use AE. It would create a more acceptable workflow for many who are keeping away from FCPX for reasons other than it's stand alone workings. It would create options and work for FCPX editors.

For those that do use AE, they know how easy Motion 5 is to pick up from there, the full C4D integration and AE's flexibility could be tapped nicely into FCPX.

This isn't to rule out Motion, far from it. If Motion could have more advanced round tripping capabilities offering a real time, both directions, round trip. I'm sure many long term AE users would get curious enough to pay a relative few pounds to check it out and add it to their tool box.

Suddenly it seems time for some mass Motion updating. I think it would be good for all, maybe not Adobe, but if Apple really are in this for the long haul then this quick boost in interest isn't going to be of interest.
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