Part of an animation made in Motion does not work in FPCX.

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Barzi2001 Author

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Part of an animation made in Motion does not work in FPCX.

I made a Title Template where I have a rectangle that goes from 10% scale to 100% scale through a Ramp behaviour at the very beginning of the project timeline.

The animation works well in Motion and in the FCPX Project Browser, but it won't work in the FCPX Viewer after I placed it on the FCPX timeline. I haven't used any keyframes in Motion but only behaviours.

I also tried to render that part of the video but the problem persists.

I have checked the settings and both in Motion and in FCP I have HD at 30 FPS. I really don't know what else to try.

Any hints?

MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 14.0

Posted on Nov 17, 2023 4:14 PM

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fox_m

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Nov 19, 2023 8:40 AM in response to Barzi2001

Okay - I can see right away that there are 4 published parameters that are "under behavior" control. Publishing parameters under behavior control results in parameters that don't work in Final Cut.

You have Scale X, Scale Y, BG Background [opacity?], and BG Blur Amount with "gear icons" (behaviors attached).

Unpublish these and run the Title in Final Cut. Everything should work as is.

You have to figure out some *other level* of object to apply Scale X, Scale Y, BG Background and BG Blur Amount. Usually, you can go up to the Group Level of an object OR you can apply Custom Behaviors OR you have to come up with some other creative way to publish *the function* of the parameters you want without publishing those parameters under direct behavior control... It can get quite challenging!

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fox_m

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Nov 18, 2023 8:27 AM in response to Barzi2001

I did receive the link in my email but got this:

Instead: post screenshots of your Published Parameters, the Ramp behavior parameters and the Rectangle Transform parameters. Then we'll take it from here.

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Barzi2001 Author

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Nov 19, 2023 12:56 PM in response to fox_m

Auch! That is quite surprising to me. If I think on a higher level, generally once you animate something then you want some "tweaking knobs" that slightly changes the "behavioural curves" of your animation and such "tweaking knobs" often happen to be the the parameters of some behaviours.

In the meantime, I happened to make it work just by moving the Speed In/Speed Out behaviours on an "element" level rather than a "group" level, see below.

Very strange... and somewhat confusing.

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fox_m

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Nov 17, 2023 5:59 PM in response to Barzi2001

There are a few reasons why this might happen, but I'd really need to see the project file to analyze it. Can you post it somewhere?

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Barzi2001 Author

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Nov 19, 2023 12:21 AM in response to fox_m

Ramp Settings

Rectangle Transform settings

Published Parameters

Rigged Parameters

The final result

A bit of explanation: I have two identical rectangles: in the first one only the border is displayed, whereas the internal is used as a mask on a background clone (that I can move, zoom in/zoom out).

Both of the rectangles are in the "Magnifier" group, whereas the cloned background is out because it shall not inherit the position of the "Magnifier" group but shall be somehow "fixed".

The Speed In/Out rigs are used to determine how fast the magnifier effect kicks in. In particular, in these sliders I are The End and Start Offsets of the Ramps, respectively, of:

Magnifier Scale
Background Blur
Background Color Opacity

Both the background Blur Amount and Background Color Opacity animations work fine, but the the Magnifier Scale is not animated at all. It just appears in its final Scale.

The other two background clones are to give some color and blur effect to the actual background.

I am sorry if I did some no-sense but I am very new to Motion and VFX in general. :)

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Barzi2001 Author

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Nov 18, 2023 12:57 AM in response to fox_m

Thanks for your reply! I tried to share a iCloud link twice here but every time it has been removed. How can I share my project?

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Tom Wolsky

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Nov 18, 2023 2:57 AM in response to Barzi2001

The link was in the email notification even id it’s removed from the forum.

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Barzi2001 Author

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Nov 18, 2023 3:00 AM in response to Tom Wolsky

Ah ok! So the user (fox_m) that offered his help correctly received my link? But I tried to change it several time as an attempt to fix it, hopefully he got the correct one! :) Thanks!

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Nov 18, 2023 3:14 AM in response to Barzi2001

As Tom said, we (those following the thread) received the link in the notification e-mail.

But the link did not work for me... it says "This item is unavailable."

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Part of an animation made in Motion does not work in FPCX.

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