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My Motion Rant.(AKA Apple please fix this)
Ok here goes.
First a little history.
I work on trailers (the ads for the movies before the main attraction comes on not the ads for soft drinks and feminine hygiene products( not that there is any thing wrong with those ads I just feel that at 10 bucks a pop I should be spared the intrusion of non movie related advertisements) ).My main stay for over 10 years has been After Effects, some times slow, no realtime scrubbing with sound, I constantly have to move windows when I change resolutions. But, And here is the kicker It
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Michael-
I suggest a re-post without the insults and perhaps someone will take you a bit more seriously. You have legitimate enough concerns, why undermine with the sarcasm? I stopped reading after the second pipe hit…
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#1: I never noticed this. I created a project with a white background and I see what you are talking about. The text isn’t clipping the drop shadow. That’s a drag. Another workaround would be to do your text in Photoshop and clip the drop shadow. I’d call this a bug that needs fixing.
#2 This is only with the timeline, and I agree. CMND ARROW should move the object selected on the stage.
#3 How much memory will AE grab? Only 2 gigs. What happens when you fill that up? It swaps to the hard drive. At least Motion utilizes up to 8 gigs (minus System). Anyway, go to your Motion preferences and play with the Memory/Cache preference. Set it to 70% and I think you will have less HD swapping.
#4 I did exactly what you said and my key frames moved with my duplicated text. In any case, (#5) OPTION click on a key frame and they all get selected. I agree that we should be able to drag-select key frames with the cursor in the timeline.
I think you are getting frustrated because you are so familiar with AE and you are learning how to do things in a different way. There are obviously some things that need fixing in Motion (there are still things that need fixing in AE too, BTW). Motion is less than two years old.
You will get more help on this forum if you be less sarcastic. The whole AE versus Motion thing only creates flames. We could talk about what a pain it is to do basic things in AE that will make the drop shadow bug in Motion seem pretty minor, IMHO.
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If you don’t need distance with the drop shadow on your text, use the Glow filter as a shadow. It doesn’t have the same issue the Drop Shadow does.
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Scott,
Thanks for your input. I took your advice and reduced the % of mem Motion uses and things are a bit better, I guess the 8 gig ram upgrade is on it’s way.I really wasn’t asking for help as much as venting my frustration at Apple for not dealing with what I consider the basics (drop shadow, navigation consistency, memory hogging (while the OS is so graceful with memory,), marquee selection of keyframes etc
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Hey, I understand. When you are in the middle of a project and things start going wrong, you get angry! 🙂
This product is young. We all see excellence in the product, but it’s not perfect. I went through this with Adobe LiveMotion. It was AE for the Web and wonderful in so many ways, but it had bugs and was missing a couple of features that would have made it perfect. Hopefully, the future of Motion will not be the same as LiveMotion’s.
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