Modify Final Cut Pro transitions in Motion

Many of the transitions in Final Cut Pro were created using Motion, an Apple app designed to work with Final Cut Pro. You can open these transitions in Motion, make modifications, and save the changes as a new transition that appears in the Transitions browser.

Important: To modify a transition in Motion, you must have Motion 5 installed on your computer.

Click the Transitions button in the top-right corner of the Final Cut Pro timeline.
In the Transitions browser, Control-click the transition you want to modify, then choose “Open a copy in Motion.”
Motion opens, and the transition’s project appears.
Modify the transition project.
See the Motion User Guide.
Choose File > Save As (or press Shift-Command-S), enter a name for the new transition (referred to as a Template in Motion), assign it to a category (or create a new category), choose a theme (if needed), and click Publish.
If you choose File > Save, the transition is saved using the same name, with “copy” appended to its end.

Note: If you have created or customized any Final Cut Pro effects, transitions, titles, or generators in Motion, set the storage location for your Motion content to In Library before starting any copy or move operations between libraries or storage devices. Otherwise, the Motion content is not included in those operations. See Manage Motion content in Final Cut Pro. Regardless, you must manually track and move any third-party (FxPlug) content, because it is not managed within the Final Cut Pro library.

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