Generator created in Motion showing an animated dashed line does not reliably work in FCPX

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ela2025 Author

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Generator created in Motion showing an animated dashed line does not reliably work in FCPX

I have created a Generator template for FCPX in Motion showing an animated dashed line. This was based on the following youtube tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRyM-nfhLjM.

Mainly the project uses a replicator to map multiple copies of a small object (particle) onto a rectangle. The dashed line is created by a repeated color pattern. To make it moving an oscillator is used to add a parameter behavior.

All of this is working fine in Motion. However, the template does not reliably work in FCPX. When I add the generator to a timeline then sometimes the first instance works, but additional ones won't. Instead of a moving dashed line just a single particle is shown without any animation.

I have FCPX 11.0 and Motion 5.9

Does anyone knows how to fix this? Thanks!

MacBook Air 13″

Posted on Jan 3, 2025 1:09 PM

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fox_m

Level 6

12,709 points

Jan 3, 2025 4:26 PM in response to ela2025

Okay - try this:

Turn the Rechteck visibility back on and uncheck the Shape Outline.

When I tried your generator, it didn't appear at all in Final Cut (10.4.10 [after backdating]). When I turned the Rectangle visibility back on and turned off the outline, it worked. And, I tried more than one instance and they all worked. Hopefully it will work in FCP 11 as well.

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