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Speed changes don't send to Motion - best to export as a QT movie and reimport to FCP before sending to Motion.
by markspencer
- Motion
Nope - logicially it should lock at the anchor point. Greg Niles, you out there?
by markspencer
- Motion
I take it back, even with the anchor point located on the edge, the edge moves when animating the opposite edge. Very annoying.
by markspencer
- Motion
Chi-Ho, try changing the anchor point of the mask by moving to the edge that is supposed to remain stationary, that should do it.
Mark
by markspencer
- Motion
My work machine is tied up with outputing a long video now so I'll have to check it out later - but what's the problem exactly? I've done this many times and seems to work fine - it's not a crop but you could certainly animate the crop on the text object if you wanted to.
by markspencer
- Motion
Here's a great tutorial that does something close to what you are trying to do (animated, 3-D text moving around in a sphere-like way) - should at least give you some ideas:
Btw, all Motion tutorials, tips, articles can be found here:
Mark
by markspencer
- Motion
Hey, Chi-Ho, how are you!
It shouldn't slide back.
1) park playhead at beginning of animation
2) draw mask over the letters, then drag one edge to shrink it down so it doesn't cover any of them
3) move playhead to end of animation
4) turn on record animation
5) drag mask out to reveal text
That should work
by markspencer
- Motion
CHL,
Not sure what your questions is - if you want to move the entire mask, just grab it from inside. If you just want the right edge to move, just grab and move the right edge, the left edge will stay in place and the mask will shrink.
Mark
by markspencer
- Motion
No - but why would you want to? What is your goal?
by markspencer
- Motion
I'm pretty sure that the card doesn't have anything to do with it. If you are running version 2.0, there should be a bit options in project properties.
by markspencer
- Motion
Sorry, was doing that from memory. Go to project properties (command-J). You can set the bit depth there. Then, under the view menu, you can choose whether or not to preview in float.
Mark
by markspencer
- Motion
The view button in the top right of the Canvas. You can choose to disable it for viewing purposes to speed up playback. 32-bit is really only useful for film-level resolution.
Mark
by markspencer
- Motion
Motion can address up to 4GB of RAM, but it can be useful to have more than 4GB for running other apps (FCP, DVDSP, Photoshop, After Effects) at the same time. However, 4GB is quite nice.
Mark
by markspencer
- Motion
I'm talking about the frame rate of a clip, not the project.
by markspencer
- Motion
You can change the frame rate by selecting the object in the media tab of the project pane and then going to the media tab of the inspector. And you can use the Scrub filter apply speed changes by keyframing the filter. But really your best shot is to make speed changes in another app like FCP or AE.
Mark
by markspencer
- Motion
Make you project at 29.97 and you should be fine.
by markspencer
- Motion
From PowerPoint you can export still images of each slide - I prefer to work with PICTS. That should get you what you want.
by markspencer
- Motion
I agree, Motion loves ram. And vram. It like a speedy cpu too.
by markspencer
- Motion
Apple does not "recommend 8GB of RAM" - the min RAM is 512K, and they recommend "2GB or more". 4GB should be more than enough IMHO.
Mark
by markspencer
- Motion
Where do you see "underline" when you control click? I've never seen that.
If you want underlined text, I'd suggest you simply draw a line with the bezier tool.
by markspencer
- Motion
You don't mention which version of the OS or Quicktime, but I'd recommend a re-install
by markspencer
- Motion
Sometimes Final Cut and Motion incorrectly interpret the alpha channel when importing footage - go to the Alpha column in the browser and try the alternatives, that should fix your grey border problem.
As to the fuzzy problem, I have not experienced it. Are you looking at an NTSC monitor?
Mark
by markspencer
- Motion
Make sure that your background is set to 0% opacity and also make sure you are using a codec that supports transparency, i.e., animation. If you are using Motion 1, you need to dig into the settings to set it to "millions+" (the + means the alpha channel); Motion 2 has an alpha channel preset you can use.
Mark
by markspencer
- Motion
If your footage was shot anamorphically, you need a checkmark in the Anamorphic column of the browser for those clips. And your sequence should be set to anamorphic as well. If you need to render, you have a mismatch between your clip settings and your sequence settings. You can change either one at anytime, so experiment until you don't get a render bar.
As far as mixing 4:3 and 16:9 clips, tha
by markspencer
- Café LA
That's the last thing we need :-)
by markspencer
- Café LA
Actually I didn't post that answer, someone somehow posted with my name.
by markspencer
- Café LA
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