Extending a template

Good afternoon,

I am new here and with Motion as well..

I bought a template and that runs for about 58 seconds. I was able to change the pictures and the background music, changed the colorising.
I would like to extend the time, or better want to add extra dropzones. I tried to copy the dropzones ( 13 come within the template) but for some reason it is not working.

Can someone please help me how to achieve what I want?

Thanks

Welcome Bert to fcp.co

… that's very hard to tell from remote, without knowing any detail of the project.
And 'tinkering' in commercial plugins, extending a project by adding drop-zones, mimicking existing animation etc. is no beginner's task ...

Can you share us a screenshot of the Project?



esp. the Project Pane (circle) is of interest. (it has already 13 drop zones, so,I guess it's even more convoluted :S )

Hello Karsten,

Thank you for the reply. As your differs from mine , but I think I have the right screen shot. Hopefully it helps.


Thanks for the help in advance.
Bert

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we narrow us, Bert

This is the right pane, but all layers collapsed … info: looks complex, masks, overlays, flares … phew!

For a start, un-collapse the Dropzones …

Not meant rude, but what I foresee to this point in time: I will not able to talk you remotely thru the whole process of extending such a plugin (if possible anyhow), when alone creating a use- and meaningful screen-shot is an issue
It's like sending me the index of a cooking book, and asking for help to change a specific recipe from 'for 4' to 'for 12' .... sort-of …

Plan B )
have you tried to contact the manufacturer of that plugin? Smaller companies are often very helpful with 'customisation' …

Hello Kartsen,


sorry for the delay in replying.

It was never my intention to let you do all the work.

I found a solution. I copied everything and pasted it at the end of the time line. The only problem after that was that I could not move the "end marker" of the original template. It took me a while to move that marker, I was able to "paste" the copy and the original together.
Now I can use all the drop zones and add more pictures to my slideshow.
Hope I made myself clear.

Thanks again
Bert

Dear Karsten,


I already replied, but guess something went wrong.
So once again

I was never my intention to give you a lot of work and certainly never the idea that you should explain every step.
I copied everything and pasted it. That was no problem. I could ad extra pictures, but the video played only the first part.
After struggling and try and error, it was the end of the video marker. Once I was able to move/change that one, it worked almost as I wanted.

Thanks for everything,
Bert