FCPX does this mean I can or can't use my Motion from FCP7 Studio?

Hello
I haven't been able to conclude if I should be able to use the Motion I purchased with Final Cut Studio or if I have to buy the one that comes with FXPX.

X doesn't recognize my present Motion so i'm not sure.

Thanks
Steve M

FCP does not accept project files from any version of Motion. You have to export or publish from Motion 4 to get to FCP.

All the best,

Tom

Tom Wolsky Wrote:
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> FCP does not accept project files from any version
> of Motion. You have to export or publish from
> Motion 4 to get to FCP.

Hmmm....was at a FCP Seminar by Larry Jordan last week, and asked the same question, and by his answer of "yes", I assumed that motion projects could be imported into an event and subsequently into a project sequence/timeline much in the same way a normal video clip could. But...I don't have FCP X so I can't test it yet. Would be interested to know definitively what the correct answer is re: ability to use motion projects directly in a FCP X timeline without rendering a QT out of Motion and importing that into FCPX first.

Larry misunderstood the question. You can create a project in Motion that can be published, and it will appear as an effect or generator or transition in FCP, but you cannot import a Motion project into FCP as understood in legacy versions.

All the best,

Tom

I just did a test and I wasn't able to directly drag in a Motion project.

Also remember that there is an FCPX trial that you can download to test things out before purchasing.

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Well, there's the long way around.

Excellent tutorial. Is there a list of which templates in Motion 4 that are not included in Motion 5? Still not sure why the Motion 4 templates were not included in Motion 5's and while this tutorial is very helpful, it will be very time consuming to publish each part of each Motion 4 template from 4 to 5. I rarely use them but it still is irksome that Apple has downgraded everything.
Steve

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