Apple Final Cut Pro 6 - Manual (Page 1272)

Chapter 24 Working with Motion and Shake 487
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Sending Browser Clips from Final Cut Pro to Motion
When you send Browser clips from Final Cut Pro to Motion, a new Motion project is
created with an empty Timeline and the media from each selected Final Cut Pro clip
displayed in the Motion Media tab. Use this method to quickly import media from
Final Cut Pro into an empty Motion project.
Sending a Sequence from Final Cut Pro to Motion
You can send an entire sequence, including all of its video tracks and their sequence
clips, to a Timeline in a new Motion project. Use this method to edit one or more layers
in Final Cut Pro and then add effects, animation, or text in Motion.
Sending Selected Sequence Clips from Final Cut Pro to Motion
You can send any selection of sequence clips in Final Cut Pro to a new Motion project.
Noncontiguous selections are allowed. For example, if you selected sequence clips A, B,
and D in Final Cut Pro, but you skipped clip C, the Motion Timeline would also contain
media from clips A, B, and D with a gap where clip C was located.
When you send sequence clips to Motion, several things happen:
 Final Cut Pro automatically creates a new sequence containing only the clips you
selected. You can verify that there is a new sequence by looking in the Browser.
 The contents of the new sequence are used to create a new Motion project.
 If you choose the Embed Motion Content option in the Export Selection to Motion
dialog, the new Motion project is imported into Final Cut Pro, creating a Motion clip
in the Browser. The selected sequence clips are replaced by the new Motion clip.
About the Embed Motion Content Option
The Embed Motion Content option is available only when you send selected sequence
clips to a new Motion project. This option imports the new Motion project back into
Final Cut Pro and replaces your selected sequence clips. In effect, it converts your
selection of sequence clips into a Motion clip in a single step. For more information
about working with imported Motion projects, see “
Making Changes to a Motion Clip
in Final Cut Pro ” on page 484.
If you don’t select Embed Motion Content, the selected sequence clips are still copied
into a new sequence in the Browser, but they are not replaced and the new Motion
project is not imported into Final Cut Pro, so your original sequence remains unchanged.