Comments on: Alex4D Ticker: Free Final Cut Pro X effect http://alex4d.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/ticke-fcpx-effect/ Tell tales by rewriting reality - Alex Gollner's editing and media blog Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:00:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Duncan Knowles http://alex4d.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/ticke-fcpx-effect/#comment-16913 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 18:12:43 +0000 http://alex4d.wordpress.com/?p=2700#comment-16913 Alex, installing it manually worked! Thank you so much for hanging in here!

I’ve just started playing around with this, and it is a wonderful piece of work! Congratulations. Is there someplace I can contribute something toward this?

Two questions:

1. I was able to raise the type font up to close to the middle of the page, but I couldn’t find a control to raise the background shadow so it could be placed behind the raised text. Is there such a control?

2. The font looks solid on my Mac monitor, but it is vibrating when I see it on my Flanders Reference Monitor. Since the Flanders gives a true picture of what’s coming off my program, do you have a thought about how to stop that vibrating?

With lots of thanks, Duncan

]]> By: Alex http://alex4d.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/ticke-fcpx-effect/#comment-16910 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 17:41:18 +0000 http://alex4d.wordpress.com/?p=2700#comment-16910 Duncan,
Quit from Final Cut Pro.
Drag the .mtt file onto the Motion Template Tool application icon.
Hopefully MTT will open the .mtt file and then you can install the Title in the correct place.

If this doesn’t work, create the following folder hierarchy:
You main drive / Users / Your user name / Home / Movies / Motion Templates / Titles / Alex4D /
and put the ‘Alex 4D Ticker +’ folder into the ‘Motion Templates / Titles / Alex4D’ folder.

Good luck!

]]> By: Duncan Knowles http://alex4d.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/ticke-fcpx-effect/#comment-16909 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 17:33:11 +0000 http://alex4d.wordpress.com/?p=2700#comment-16909 Alex, I double clicked the “Alex4D Ticker+ 1.0.mtt” and it opens a new window saying with an “Open” button option. When I click on the Open button, I get a message that reads: “The document “Install Alex 4D Ticker+ 1.0.mtt” could not be opened. Final Cut Pro cannot open files of this type.”

Thanks for sticking with me on this. It is important to me.

]]> By: Alex http://alex4d.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/ticke-fcpx-effect/#comment-16907 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 17:25:34 +0000 http://alex4d.wordpress.com/?p=2700#comment-16907 The .mtt file is a script that the Motion Template Tool application runs so the ‘Alex4D Ticker+’ folder is put into the correct plane. To ‘run’ the .mtt file, double-click it in the Finder.

]]> By: Duncan Knowles http://alex4d.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/ticke-fcpx-effect/#comment-16906 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 17:17:46 +0000 http://alex4d.wordpress.com/?p=2700#comment-16906 Alex,
You write to run the .mtt file in the Motion Template Tool. I don’t seem to be able to do that. What step am I missing?

I installed Motion Template Tool and I now have on my desktop a box labled “Motion Template Tool” which has a box on the left headed “Drag Motion Template folder here.” and a box on the right headed “Select Users.”

In addition a have open the folder I dowloaded from you: “Alex 4D Ticker+ 1.0″. In it are: a) a folder “Alex 4D Ticker +, b) Alex 4D-Editing organized.webloc, c) Install Alex 4D Ticker+ 1.0.mtt, and d) Spherico Motion Template Tool.webloc.

When I attempt to drag the file labeled “Alex 4D Ticker+ 1.0.mtt” to the Motion Template Tool box, it won’t accept it.

Please advise. With thanks.
Duncan

]]> By: Alex http://alex4d.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/ticke-fcpx-effect/#comment-16902 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:22:45 +0000 http://alex4d.wordpress.com/?p=2700#comment-16902 Duncan,

If you ran the .mtt file in the Motion Template Tool, the ‘Alex4D Ticker+’ folder should be in the ‘Alex4D’ folder in the ‘Titles’ folder of the ‘Motion Templates’ folder, i.e. Home / Movies / Motion Templates / Titles / Alex4D / Alex4D Ticker+

Go to the Titles browser, you should see an ‘Alex4D’ category in the left-hand column. If you click that, the ‘Alex4D Ticker+’ should appear in the right-hand side of the browser.

Alex

]]> By: Duncan Knowles http://alex4d.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/ticke-fcpx-effect/#comment-16901 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:15:14 +0000 http://alex4d.wordpress.com/?p=2700#comment-16901 Alex, Thanks for your quick reply! I installed the Motion Template Tool and then put your download in a folder where you said to put it. Then I went to FCPX to look for it to begin using it. But I can’t find it. Where will it be located?

Thanks so much. Duncan

]]> By: Alex http://alex4d.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/ticke-fcpx-effect/#comment-16875 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 07:01:24 +0000 http://alex4d.wordpress.com/?p=2700#comment-16875 Yes, read the post about how to install this for Final Cut Pro, you don’t need Motion for this to work.

I’ve produced a better version of this effect. The blog post includes more detailed instructions. How did you find this older version?

See more at
http://alex4d.wordpress.com/2012/10/18/alex4d-ticker-plus-fcpx-title/

]]> By: Duncan Knowles http://alex4d.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/ticke-fcpx-effect/#comment-16873 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 05:03:31 +0000 http://alex4d.wordpress.com/?p=2700#comment-16873 Alex, This is a very promising app for me, but I don’t know a thing about Motion. I’m jammed at the moment with a project and little time for study. Can I import this into FCPX and use it directly from there? Thanks for sharing. Duncan

]]> By: akismet-09b62065f09f829643b0a0ebd00a50f0 http://alex4d.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/ticke-fcpx-effect/#comment-11974 Mon, 10 Sep 2012 17:55:31 +0000 http://alex4d.wordpress.com/?p=2700#comment-11974 Thanks. Much appreciated.

]]> By: Mr Q http://alex4d.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/ticke-fcpx-effect/#comment-10395 Wed, 11 Jul 2012 19:54:20 +0000 http://alex4d.wordpress.com/?p=2700#comment-10395 Really good stuff, highly recommendable and for free! You can´t ask for more.

]]> By: Canticleer http://alex4d.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/ticke-fcpx-effect/#comment-10314 Wed, 04 Jul 2012 16:41:19 +0000 http://alex4d.wordpress.com/?p=2700#comment-10314 Thanks Alex, adding a speed slider makes Ticker far more usable. I’ll have a closer look at your other FCP plugins soon.

]]> By: Collin http://alex4d.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/ticke-fcpx-effect/#comment-10074 Wed, 13 Jun 2012 23:27:04 +0000 http://alex4d.wordpress.com/?p=2700#comment-10074 Hey, I figured it out. I just opened it in Motion, and lengthened the project. Thanks for a great Ticker!

]]> By: Collin http://alex4d.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/ticke-fcpx-effect/#comment-10073 Wed, 13 Jun 2012 23:23:34 +0000 http://alex4d.wordpress.com/?p=2700#comment-10073 Same here. Is there a way to lengthen the effect, so it doesn’t start over.

]]> By: David Garmaise http://alex4d.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/ticke-fcpx-effect/#comment-8851 Sat, 24 Mar 2012 06:21:45 +0000 http://alex4d.wordpress.com/?p=2700#comment-8851 Alex, I entered about 30 words of text. After about Word 22, it moves back to Word 1. I have no idea why.

]]> By: Alex http://alex4d.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/ticke-fcpx-effect/#comment-8041 Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:21:26 +0000 http://alex4d.wordpress.com/?p=2700#comment-8041 Have you upgraded to Final Cut Pro X 10.0.3? The effect was created in Motion 5.0.2, and there’s a copy of 5.0.2 inside Final Cut (for effects playback). If you haven’t upgraded Final Cut Pro, the built-in version of Motion might have a problem with Motion Templates created with a newer version of Motion.

If you have upgraded, I’m out of ideas. As I can’t recreate the problem, I have no idea whether anything I change would fix this.

Sorry I can’t be more helpful.

]]> By: sal http://alex4d.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/ticke-fcpx-effect/#comment-8040 Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:08:53 +0000 http://alex4d.wordpress.com/?p=2700#comment-8040 I actually dont have motion on my computer. I removed all the corrupt fonts. Still just seeing a blue screen and then it crashed. here is a screenshot.

http://tinypic.com/r/90msyw/5

]]> By: Alex http://alex4d.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/ticke-fcpx-effect/#comment-8039 Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:33:08 +0000 http://alex4d.wordpress.com/?p=2700#comment-8039 You might have a corrupt font or two on your Mac. Open the Font Book application, select all your activated fonts and use the Validate Fonts command in the File menu.

Generators sometimes have this problem if a Mac has Motion 4 installed. People find that deleting ~/Library/Application Support/Final Cut Studio/Motion/Presets/Project/ fixes the problem.

]]> By: sal http://alex4d.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/ticke-fcpx-effect/#comment-8037 Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:00:38 +0000 http://alex4d.wordpress.com/?p=2700#comment-8037 Hey I’m trying to use this but everytime I add it into a clip, All i get is a blue screen and it crashes.

]]> By: Tim http://alex4d.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/ticke-fcpx-effect/#comment-7712 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:49:55 +0000 http://alex4d.wordpress.com/?p=2700#comment-7712 Yeah I worked this out when I read your full text above, apologies for wasting your time!

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