PSD Image animation on Motion Template

Can you post some screenshots of what you see in Motion, and in FCP?

Can you tell us more about what kind of animation you are doing?

Are you importing a multi-layered psd file and editing the layers separately?

What do you mean by "It works well in Generator"?

I take it that you are creating this as a generator in Motion, it plays well inside Motion, and when exported from Motion as a Quicktime Movie.

And, if you want us to have a look in more detail, you could send the actual project to yourself using wetransfer, and post the link here (it will be deleted, but we'd still get it in the mail notification).

Chances are, you tried to publish parameters that you already had keyframed in Motion... that just doesn't work. You either have to publish unkeyframed parameters that you *intend* to keyframe in Final Cut or you have to work around the keyframing by using other parameters you can link to the keyframed parameters via Link Behaviors and Add to Source for the Apply Mode.

Motion can be an outstanding app for making video animations!

I can see no reason to move thr Motion application itself away from the Applications folder.

If you edit a standalone Motion Project, you can save that in an external drive, no problem.

If you edit templates for use in FCP, then they are automatically saved in the right place for FCP to find them.

These are usually small, anyway. If you are pressed for disk space, it is better to store your FCP media files in an external. You can get an inexpensive external SSD now.

I am not aware of a tutorial specifically about this. And I never made a slideshow in Motion. In fact, though one certainly could make a slide show in Motion, I don’t think it is the best tool for the job.

For an easy and great looking slideshow, I’d start with Photos. It does not offer you a lot of freedom but that can be a good thing. The results look great with basically zero effort. If you outgrow that, and don’t have a more specific tool like Photo Magico, then you can try using iMovie or Final Cut Pro.