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Importing a Motion Project Into a Final Cut Pro Project
Whether or not you have Motion installed, you can import Motion projects into
Final Cut Pro in the same way you would import other media.
To import a Motion project into Final Cut Pro, do one of the following:
m Drag the Motion project into the Final Cut Pro Browser or Timeline.
m Choose File > Import > Files, then select the Motion project in the dialog that appears
and click Choose.
Note: Remember that it’s not necessary to import Motion projects back into
Final Cut Pro if you exported them with Embed Motion Content selected. When
embedded, the Motion project that appears in Final Cut Pro automatically picks up any
changes saved to it in Motion.
Although you cannot edit the content of an imported or embedded Motion project
clip in Final Cut Pro, you can play it to see how it looks in your movie, place it in your
sequence, trim edit it, add transitions, and apply filters and titles to it.
When a Motion project is imported or embedded into Final Cut Pro:
 Final Cut Pro displays the project as a clip, with all of the layers of the Motion
project composited together. The Motion project clip appears in the Browser with a
Motion filename extension. If embedded and already in the Timeline, it also appears
in the Timeline.
 The audio in Motion is not imported into Final Cut Pro.
 If project properties (such as frame width or height) were altered in Motion, those
new properties are reflected in the Motion project in Final Cut Pro.
About the Animation Codec
Often you will use Motion to create projects with alpha channels. The Animation
codec is a lossless codec intended to be used with computer-generated graphics, but
that works with regular video footage as well. This results in excellent quality at the
expense of performance (Animation codec clips often do not play in real time). A big
advantage of the Animation codec is that it supports an alpha channel that
Final Cut Pro can use to control the clip’s transparency.