fcpworld

Over at kenstone.net, you’ll find a hardcore group of moderators that are hell-bent on being helpful and patient to all those learning Final Cut Studio.
One such person is Ronny Courtens. You can often find Ronny’s helpful comments peppered throughout Ken’s site.
Recently, Ronny created a tutorial for Apple Motion that is frequently asked for: animating [...]

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I love the flexibility of going back and forth from FCP to Motion to jazz up my sequences. The problem lies in the stalling of .motn files in your sequence. More often then not, you’ll get a “Preparing Video for Display” progress bar or a good old fashioned SBBOD (Spinning Beach Ball of Death). 
Since rendering [...]

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I’ve been creating lots of cool graphics in Motion lately, some quite complex. The only problem is after adding tons of layered effects, you’ve got quite the wait ahead if you render in Motion. 
If you’re like me, you’ll want to speed up the rendering process. The way to do this is to avoid rendering in [...]

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