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Q: Motion question

I'm new to Motion and have a couple of questions. I have chosen a Livetype "Spotlight" effect font and seem to be stuck wit the one font, the effect is great, but the font I don't like, can this be changed to another like Ariel? Secondly, when you have "Save as template" and these get exported to FCP, where on Earth do they actually get saved? When I try to "Open templates" all I get are the Apple stock templates, I can't find my own ones. Obviiosly I know where they are on FCP, but suppose I want to change the template in someway in Motion, I can't seem to get them back.

 

I know these questions will be blindly obvious to Motion experts, but your help will be appeciated!

macbook pro 17" 2.53GHz, Mac OS X (10.6.6)

Posted on Jul 3, 2011 3:48 PM

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  • by Russ H,

    Russ H Russ H Jul 4, 2011 11:31 AM in response to trabant
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    Jul 4, 2011 11:31 AM in response to trabant

    Livefonts are actually little movies. You can do a lot with them - scale, rotate, etc. but I don't know any way to change up the font.

     

    When you saved your templates, you should have seen a dialogue box asking you to name them and where to save. For example, clicking on themes gives an option of saving to a custom folder, or creating a new theme, which you should  then find in the template list in FCP.

     

    Good luck.

     

    Russ

  • by Patrick Sheffield,

    Patrick Sheffield Patrick Sheffield Jul 6, 2011 2:31 AM in response to trabant
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    Jul 6, 2011 2:31 AM in response to trabant

    If you use a template in the timeline, you can right/ctrl-click on the template and select open in Editor. Then if you make changes, you can save it for all occurrences of the template (overwrite) or only for this instance (saves a new copy).

     

    You can also select Open Template from the File Menu and pick your template from the Template Browser:

     

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