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Topic: Apple Final Cut Pro X and Motion

Wondering if anyone with experience with these programs know the best way to flow content between the two. I am in need of using the motion tracking behavior in Motion to match composites but the only way I know of how to do this is by rendering each clip individually out of Final Cut, performing the task in Motion; then rendering the finished product again to import it into Final cut... I want to avoid as much quality loss as possible and I could go with uncompressed formats but I feel there must be a better way without creating clips massive in size.

Any help would be appreciated.

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Re: Apple Final Cut Pro X and Motion

I use both, and I sometimes I just export a ProRes file from final cut, process in motion, and then another file back to FCPX.

Keep in mind that you can open original video clips and/or image sequences in motion (create project from file) removing one step from the process, and if the clip is one you will use over and over again, publish it as a FCPX generator.

You can also use Automatic Duck's $99 Xsend Motion software.

If you're really serious about video, you should have several hundred GB of free space for scratch files (that will get deleted after project completion) mini/smile

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Re: Apple Final Cut Pro X and Motion

Thanks Mark, I might just have to bust out my external drive for this. Thanks again.

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