Rounding Off

what's with certain numeric values rounding off to a major number when i know it goes in between during animation?

two examples...tracking, i want my text to fit in a certain area so i use trackingto scale it down, however, if i say -.5 it jumps to -1 or just to 0. If i animate the tracking it obviously goes through these vales to get to 0 cleanly, why can't i have it stay there? also, the scale rate on grow/shrink, -4 is to slow and -5 is too fast, why can't i choose that middle ground?

its starting to become very frustrating...

also, on a side note, how can i blur the edges on my layers? I tried to crop and feather like in FCP but there is no feather available on the properties tab...maybe its on the crop filter? i'll check...oh, there is no crop filter, i thought i saw one. Man i could even do this in DL *edit, i guess i can mask and feather it...but there should be a better way...



Post Edited (07-03-06 09:32)

You know what, Scott? At least for the tracking property, Motion shows the value as a whole number, but it usually does take the decimal values intro account. If you type a value of 0.6, for example, it will usually behave as desired, but will still show it as 1.0. I say "usually" because sometimes, the whole value sticks when you leave text editing mode. Strange, isn't it? Another related thing: measuring tracking in such a way it's competely non standard. In Photoshop or Illustrator, for instance, tracking also works with whole numbers, but that makes sense because the range is much larger: a change of 1 is completely minimal, you usually twek it in 5 or 10 increments to notice a difference. In Motion, going from 0.5 to 1, or from 1 to 2 means a very large change in the visual tracking result. Go figure...



Adolfo Rozenfeld
Buenos Aires - Argentina
www.adolforozenfeld.com

well yes it does take the percentage into consideration but when i move off that text object or click on another one, it reverts to the old setting. Very frustrating and probably my biggest compaint with Motion. I really wish they would get their tracking values in line with rest of the graphic world