Motion VFX templtes drop zone

Can I add videos into the drop zones motion VFX templates, or I need to do it in Motion?

Thanks.

If the drop zone is published, you select that clip in the Timeline. Go to the Inspector, the first tab on the left will give you the ability to drop any media item into the drop zone.

Its not published, because I do not have Motion 5. I guess I will have to get it, in order to make motion templates work in FCPX

Thanks.

the dropzone(s) have to be 'published' in Motion, then you get an 'image well' in FCPX, look:




That is a very simple template to - as we call it in German - 'baptise' a player (who shot a goal or whatever...)
For demonstrational purposes, it's not a generator, but an 'effect' , so we have TWO dropzones: the big one for the source, and a cropped one for the insert...

In FCPX…




… in the Inspector of that effect, you notice a lil' square, or 'well'; double clicking that promps you to select the content - which could be from the actual projects timeline (what Ben mentioned), or from any other clip in the Event browser.

webwiz wrote: Its not published, because I do not have Motion 5. I guess I will have to get it, in order to make motion templates work in FCPX….

No, it's not published because you don't have Motion.
It's not published because its maker hasn't published it.

Purchasing M5 will not solve your problem. (alone you could change parameters - if you know to handle M5)
Where did you get that template from?

After a long research and contacting the company Motion VFX, I found the solution. There are a few reasons why it did not work for me.
1. In the motion folder there are 2 files. one without an extension and one with .motn I grabbed a wrong one from the the generator where I could not apply footage into placeholder
2. I tried to drop clips onto the browser, instead of the inspector.
3. Another mistake was when I selected the clip drop zones were gone as the browser was showing the selected clip.

The way to make it work was to select the drop zone box in the inspector, select the clip and push the button apply. This morning I received the manual from the company which explains how to do it direct in FCPX without using Motion. www.motionvfx.com/tutorials/MotionVFX_Mo...mplates_Tutorial.pdf

I am new in FCPX (FCP7 user) and maybe for some people it would be obvious how to work with templates, but I decided to post the solution, for people like me.