motionvfx templates don't show thumbnail or preview in project browser

I love motionvfx templates and own several. I use them fairly easily in Motion 5. However, just a minor peeve...when I start Motion, "New from Project Browser", brings up all the templates I have, most of the templates from motionvfx do not show an actual thumbnail nor can I get a preview. What shows up is a generic thumbnail based on the filetype (title vs. project). I also get a lot of "Media Missing in Motion", although I do have all the files.

Is this normal? My Digital Juice templates show up as thumbnails, and I can click to see a preview before I open the project folder, but can't get it to do this with my motionvfx files.

Can anyone help?

Thanks for the reply. But not quite what I was looking for.

I know where all the files are. But because I'm having to access them through Finder, as opposed to Motion Project Browser, like it should. It is annoying.

Do I need to have the project files in another place? As you can see from my previously posted image, Motion can see the folder and the project, but for some reason not the png. I didn't move any subfolders within a project. Here's another image of my file structure. As you can see, the Digital Juice projects with preview show up fine, but not the mfx Project one.The ones I did myself (VSP) at least show an image, but not a preview.



Vickie

Would you mind showing me a picture of you clicked on project 541 in finder instead of Digital Juice being selected?
Here's what one of the templates I made looks like in the Project browser and Finder. Does it look identical to this?




The movie preview is a whole different story. I'll get to that later.

I'm sorry I'm having a trouble getting what you mean.

Haha I'm sorry Vickie if you'd click on a tmp such as 'Font' or 'Lower thirds'. In there it should have a large and small.png image. If there's not a large and small you can go ahead and make one quick and easy. All you have to do is take a screenshot of your opened project, then name it large.png. (no conversion is need as when you take a screenshot [shift+command+4] it'll already be a png). Drag large.png into the project folder, see picture below. A small.png is not necessary. Open up Motion and you should have a preview.



Hope I was helpful,

~AJ

I told you in the previous post where to put them! Make your own pic, then go back to my previous post to see where to put the file. Hahah I had arrows, boxes and everything!

Hope I was helpful,

~AJ

What exactly do you mean by taking a pic of Titles and the Transitions? You also said preview. There is only one picture preview and one movie preview.To me it sounds like you are trying to put several previews in the same folder. Nope. That won't work. As far as the movie preview goes, here are the simple steps to make it.

MAKING A MOVIE PREVIEW

1) Open up your project/template
2) Hit publish template from the file menu. (if you are in FCP generator, hit save as)
3) If you want to publish a template, select save preview movie, then save.



4) If you want to save it as a generator, well, just select Publish as Final Cut Generator.



In the Motion Startup window, the red box is where the templates are saved. The yellow box is where the generators are saved.



Of course you can always move the files of the templates/generators if you make a mistake.

The movie preview shows up where the red box is and the blue box is where the image preview is.



Hope I was helpful,

~AJ

That's great Vickie!

Glad I could help,

~AJ