Re: Need help working out FCP>Motion workflow

Howdy,

It sounds like you would benefit from creating some master templates in Motion for use in FCP. Basically, you can send stuff to Motion, do work on it, add drop zones as placeholders for any future footage, then use the template(s) in your FCP timeline. You just drop footage into the template "clips" in your FCP timeline, and it will plug the footage into the Motion templates. You can even edit certain things like text objects from the FCP timeline, without having to return to Motion. You can also decide if each template clip becomes its own Motion project, or if they're all instances of the master, which lets you make changes to a single project and have them propagate across the project.

For more info on Motion templates in FCP, check out Appendix C (starting on page 1223) of the Motion Help.