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The goal a “music visualizer”. I’ve watched a few tutorials and think I’m ready to go. My question, will it be possible to construct this visualizer’s appearance and save it as a template, without adding an audio track. I would like the ability to add different audio, change colors, edit parameters etc.. for future use.
Thanks for responding.
What *kind* of visualizer are you building?
Final Cut will not accept new audio tracks in a template used to create a visualizer. You can save your visualizer as a template, but the audio response will be "burned in".
How Motion works is: it takes the audio track and creates keyframes for animations. Once that task is completed, you can basically delete the audio clip from your Motion project — the animations will remain.
You can save your individual track visualizers as FCP templates — it's a much more memory efficient way of saving and using the visualizer in Final Cut compared to exporting the visualizer as a ProRes 4444 video (assuming you want the graphics overlaying other media).
You *can* publish parameters for appearance, color, scale, position etc., which may help streamline your "process" and/or make it easier to change the appearance to fit your video. You will most likely have to readjust the Project Length for each music track (or create of a fixed "maximum length" that you're sure all the music tracks you use will fit.
However, you will always need to open the template in Motion, load in a new audio track and have Motion create the new set of keyframes for the (synchronized) animation.
I would recommend that if you decide to make your visualizer a template, that you name it <type of visualizer>-<music track>. You can Open in Motion any of them and Save As for the name change after changing the audio source.
A music visualizer is a little deep for a "noob" but don't let that discourage you. Keep this thread going if you need more help along the way.
What *kind* of visualizer are you building?
Final Cut will not accept new audio tracks in a template used to create a visualizer. You can save your visualizer as a template, but the audio response will be "burned in".
How Motion works is: it takes the audio track and creates keyframes for animations. Once that task is completed, you can basically delete the audio clip from your Motion project — the animations will remain.
You can save your individual track visualizers as FCP templates — it's a much more memory efficient way of saving and using the visualizer in Final Cut compared to exporting the visualizer as a ProRes 4444 video (assuming you want the graphics overlaying other media).
You *can* publish parameters for appearance, color, scale, position etc., which may help streamline your "process" and/or make it easier to change the appearance to fit your video. You will most likely have to readjust the Project Length for each music track (or create of a fixed "maximum length" that you're sure all the music tracks you use will fit.
However, you will always need to open the template in Motion, load in a new audio track and have Motion create the new set of keyframes for the (synchronized) animation.
I would recommend that if you decide to make your visualizer a template, that you name it <type of visualizer>-<music track>. You can Open in Motion any of them and Save As for the name change after changing the audio source.
A music visualizer is a little deep for a "noob" but don't let that discourage you. Keep this thread going if you need more help along the way.
Thanks a lot, I was hoping all of that was possible. On a scale of 1-10 as far as the design of some that I've seen, I'd say mine would be a 2...maybe a 3. All the audio clips will all we around a minute long. I plan to create template in motion, add selected clip to new project, allow it to analyze. Export waveform as a title. Import in fcp and place audio track to sync underneath. I think I will have to import some audio into the template when creating it just to insure functionality, but I hope that I don't have any issues deleting the audio and saving as a template.
First project for this noob! Got a question..
