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Q: probable bug, titles not rendering

I built a title in Motion and got it to sync into the Lower third section of my title inspector.  I made about ten instances of them in my seven minute video. But modifying these titles works sporadically.  Sometimes I render to a file and my titles are a previous level, sometimes I exit FCPX and restart and they are ok, but old titles re appear when I exit and restart a third time.  I really do not have good control of them. Looks like Apple programmers have updated the screen correctly but are not updating the data structures where the title details are stored.

 

1. Is there perhaps a workaround, or maybe I am missing something...  Any clues would be most helpful, I just can not get the text to behave.

2. How do I best report such bugs to Apple?

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Mac Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10), OWC 6 TB 2 drive raid / Video Guy

Posted on Jan 9, 2015 9:49 PM

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    chipc chipc Jan 12, 2015 2:00 PM in response to chipc
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    Jan 12, 2015 2:00 PM in response to chipc

    I have resolved this question myself.  As I was building my Motion template, my onscreen instances in FCPX were updating to my new look very nicely, but under the surface they were getting corrupted.. In my reading, I saw that all of the titles, effects and behaviors in FCP were designed in Motion.  I figured: wait, they would have seen such an obvious bug years ago, I must be doing something wrong. So I copied my template under a new name, instantiated it in my FC timeline and re entered the text.  No problems so far.  And I might add that I did find out how to report a bug to apple.  Just googled "how to report a bug in Final Cut Pro X" and there it is.

    http://www.apple.com/feedback/finalcutpro.html

    And... Apple contacted me within a day to help solve problem, asking me to send system config files and Motion Template.  But I had figured it out. and they said to let them know if it re-appears.   So... yeah!