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Empty Motion Templates Folder???

I followed the instructions that were recommended and that worked for another user from another thread (manually adding the "Effects", "Generators", "Titles" and "Transitions" folders manually), and I still cannot get FCPX to read some transitions that I dropped in the transitions folder. Help???? (see screenshot with folder paths) *Is there a way to see what folder FCPX is actually looking at?

*Also, I tried restarting FCPX and restarting my Mac Mini too, still no results

Mac mini (M2 Pro, 2023)

Posted on Nov 17, 2023 9:11 AM

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Posted on Nov 17, 2023 9:19 AM

Also: did you localize the Motion Templates folder, as well as each of the four folders in it? If you didn’t then you have to. Select each one, press Command-I, and add the .localized extension to the folder name (it won’t be visible in Finder but FCP requires it).

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Nov 17, 2023 9:19 AM in response to mckjedi

Also: did you localize the Motion Templates folder, as well as each of the four folders in it? If you didn’t then you have to. Select each one, press Command-I, and add the .localized extension to the folder name (it won’t be visible in Finder but FCP requires it).

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Nov 17, 2023 9:18 AM in response to mckjedi

The Motion Templates folder needs to have the .localized suffix added to it, as do the Effects, Generators, Titles, and Transitions folders.

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Nov 17, 2023 9:25 AM in response to mckjedi

If one installs Motion, I believe that these folders are created automatically; but I have had Motion and FCP for so long that I can’t remember…

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Nov 17, 2023 9:16 AM in response to mckjedi

What is in your CGC Transitions folder?

This is not a transition, but a “category”, and actual transitions should go inside that folder.

Can you show what is in there?

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Nov 17, 2023 9:18 AM in response to Luis Sequeira1

This is what the company that created the transitions recommended... (Here's a screenshot from their instructional video...

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Nov 17, 2023 9:19 AM in response to Tom Wolsky

I'm assuming these folder were supposed to be created by FCPX automatically? If so any reason why I didn't have them in the first place?

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Nov 17, 2023 9:22 AM in response to Luis Sequeira1

.localized!

That did it! Thank you so much Luis!

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Nov 17, 2023 9:23 AM in response to mckjedi

They have to be created by user as needed. Many users don't have third party plugins or create their own using Motion.

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Nov 17, 2023 9:24 AM in response to Tom Wolsky

Thank you Tom!

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