Publishing a Motion 5 generator and its parameters to FCP X
If you've worked with some of the earlier chapters, you'll know that there are several generators available to you in Motion's Library. Some of them aren't available in FCP X. Let's add a generator and its parameters to FCP X by saving our project as a Final Cut Pro generator.
Getting ready
Launch Motion. From the welcome screen, select a Final Cut generator project. Choose a project with a Preset of Broadcast HD 1080, a Frame Rate of 29.97, and a Duration of 10 seconds. Click on Open. Motion's interface launches.
How to do it...
From here we'll add a generator to our Timeline and use the Inspector to choose the parameters we wish to publish.
Press Command + 2 to go to the Library. Navigate to Generators | Spirals. With Spirals selected and your playhead at the beginning of the project, click on Apply.
With the Canvas selected, press Shift + Z to fit it to the window. Select Spirals from the Layers tab and press the F4 key to go to...
