Final Cut Pro: Send To Motion evokes QuickTime Player instead of Motion

Issue

If you have designated QuickTime Player as Final Cut Pro's external editor for video files, you might find that the Send To Motion feature fails to open the resulting Motion project in Motion. Instead, the .motn project opens in QuickTime Player.

Solution

In the majority of workflows, it is not necessary to explicitly designate QuickTime Player as the external editor for video files. If you clear the setting so that no application is selected as the external editor for video files, Final Cut Pro will use the application that Mac OS X uses to open video files, which by default, happens to be QuickTime Player.

Follow these steps to clear the setting for external editors

1. In Final Cut Pro, choose Final Cut Pro > System Settings.
2. Click the External Editors tab.
3. Click the Clear button for Video Files to clear that setting.

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