Help Creating Simple Trailer Templates in Motion That Have Drop Zones For Video

Your template is ten seconds long but the part with the drop zones is about 1 second long.

When you drag a template to the FCP timeline it stretches or shrinks to match the duration you set there. So for example if you make it ten seconds (the same as in the Motion) it will play for ten seconds - meaning that the ten clips will play for about 1 tenth of a second each. If you were to extend in FCP timeline to 20 seconds, then the part with the drop zones would play for just over 2 seconds, so each drop zone would play for about 2/10 of a second, and so on.

You could simply make the project be 100 seconds long and each drop zone be 10 seconds and then make it 100 seconds long in FCP as well.

(I am not sure that using drop zones is the way to go in this case, but we can dwell on that later)

Luis— does FCP still play drop zone media from the beginning of the template? By that I mean: if you create a template and Start a Drop Zone halfway through the template, when the template is published and media added to the dropzone, even though the drop zone does not appear until the halfway mark the media has been playing from the beginning of the template? [This would have a huge influence on the OP's project.]

Fox, that’s a very relevant question. I don’t think that there has been any change in this behavior, but I will have to check that later today.

If that is the case, then to @ms1592 — here is a way to synchronize your drop zone content in templates used in Final Cut:

https://youtu.be/s5Adn3ZhDKU