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• When keying green screen or blue screen footage, using a keying template is not
recommended. Footage should be keyed directly in its own project in Final Cut Pro or
Motion. This is because the Keyer filter analyzes the footage it is initially applied to. For
basic keying, use the Keyer or Luma Keyer in Final Cut Pro. For more advanced keying,
build the composite in Motion using the Keyer filter. You can also render a keyed clip
with its alpha channel and add the clip to a Final Cut Pro project. For more information,
see Keying.
• Do not use image sequences when creating templates.
• If an object in a template has an applied Link Parameter behavior, do not move the
object to another group. Doing so breaks the links.
• If you publish parameters for an object and then delete that object, all parameters set
to be published are also deleted.
• Do not use deprecated filters (older filters that are no longer supported in Motion 5)
in a template. Although the filter may render correctly in Motion, it may not render
correctly after the template is applied to a Final Cut Pro clip.
• Template placeholder layers cannot be duplicated. If a group that contains a placeholder
is duplicated, other objects in the group are duplicated, but not the placeholder.
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