Not only cut and paste or alt drag to make new instances, but you can also lengthen or shorten the globe or retime the generator putting a speed effect such as holds on either end. You can change the start and end locations, zoom in to the globe or map and decide to show the animating line and superimpose clouds.Īs the clip is now a generator within FCPX you can do everything you would expect. You have access to every parameter that you would expect if in iMovie. The maps are not movies, they are the map generators from iMovie and we can prove that by looking at one in the inspector. In the new Event, you will find a project, and in that project you will find the maps that we made in iMovie. Then go to the File menu and select 'Send Movie to Final Cut Pro.' Take your hands off the keyboard and watch the magic happen.Ī new Library and Event are made in Final Cut Pro X. It doesn't really matter as long as you have one on the timeline and don't worry about destinations e.t.c. Here for the example we have put three back to back, one rotating globe, one flat map and the plain zoom. Simply put your animating globe of choice onto a timeline in iMovie. Yes this is possible and probably the quickest way to get the maps (and background generators) into FCPX. (Enter at your own risk!) Open in window for larger image.ģ) Use the generator directly in Final Cut Pro X. The location of the Quartz Composer map files in the iMovie package. Not easy, not quick and all done at the users' own risk. A complicated workaround that involves digging into the iMovie program package contents and then re-wrapping the effect. This QC file can be imported into an effect management system such as FxFactory and published to FCPX via a Motion wrapper. The globe and map effects in iMovie are written in Quarz Composer, a visual programming language using patches and noodles to draw up a 'composition.' Once all the info has been baked in, you cannot change anything, including the duration.Ģ) Write a Motion wrapped plugin of the effect. Let's run through them all.ġ) Use iMovie to pre-program all cities and moves and then render out a self contained QuickTime and import that into FCPX. One easy but limiting, one hard but very flexible and the last, very easy, very quick and very flexible. The range of animating maps available in iMovie. Whilst writing up the review on the latest Retina MacBook Pro, it reminded us of a great trick we used a year ago to get those great automatically animating globe maps out of the latest iMovie and into Final Cut Pro X. Thanks to a clever trick, you can have access to the maps and globes directly in Final Cut Pro X without having to re-render each one out as a movie. We have often looked at the animated globe maps in iMovie and wished they could have been included in FCPX.
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