Final Cut Pro ignores Opacity of 0% in Motion Template

[latenitefilms]

Apple Feedback Assistant ID: FB12683338

Describe the bug
If a transition, effect, generator or title Motion Template have a set type to have an opacity of 0%, Final Cut Pro 10.6.7 ignores the instruction and keeps the type visible in Final Cut Pro.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behaviour:

1. Import a Placeholder Generator into your timeline.

Expected behaviour
No notes should be visible in the Final Cut Pro Viewer, but they are. The View Notes checkbox does nothing.

Screenshots

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2021, Apple M1 Max, 64GB RAM, 8TB SSD)
• macOS Monterey 12.6.6
• Final Cut Pro 10.6.7

[latenitefilms]

@dmetz01 writes in #221:

Interestingly (or not), I was able to fix the Placeholder generator by opening a copy in Motion, and changing focus of the rig's opacity toggle from the text item to its group container. The new copy functions properly in FCP. This doesn't fix the original, but may be helpful in diagnosing the problem.

I built another generator some years ago that was also broken with this update - in that case the Colorize filter was applied to the source image for a particle emitter. When 'colorize' was selected, all particles disappeared instead of taking on the new colors. Moving the filter from the source image to the emitter itself has fixed that one.

One other note - I have other generators that utilize the same opacity toggle, and they all work perfectly. So it isn't specific to opacity - I think this has more to do with the parameter's target, and its hierarchy within the Motion layers/stack/whatever.

[Vinc26]

Bug always here in FCP 10.6.8 :(

[sharedscene]

does this still happen under every viewer render setting?
i have one example where switching to "Better Quality" correctly displays my opacity animations in the template.

[dmetz01]

does this still happen under every viewer render setting?
i have one example where switching to "Better Quality" correctly displays my opacity animations in the template.

Changing the quality setting has no effect on either copy of my Placeholder generator. The new one always behaves as expected, and the original, unmodified one always shows the notes.