Does Motion do “Grow” Effect?

[Jim Kanter]

What do you mean by the “grow” effect? Scaling up? This can be done in Motion with either keyframes or a behavior.

There are a lot of similarities between the two apps and a lot of differences. They are complementary applications, and now with Motion 2 you can do “roundtripping” by taking a Motion project into AE and using it like a QT clip with live “edit in external editor” capability.

I demonstrate how in the upcoming DMTS dvd INSIDE MOTION 2 from Magnet Media.

Jim Kanter,
Digital Film Institute
http://www.dfilminst.com

[Scot Walker]

Thanks for the info, Jim.

How does Motion do that with AE? Does Apple use QuickTime to translate or something? AE 6.5 came out before Motion, so it’s weird that Apple’s filters and particles can just show up in AE.

[Doyle Rockwell]

Hey Scot,

You guessed it right on the Quicktime bit. The way that FCP, DSP and Shake import Motion projects is through the Motion Quicktime component. It allows Quicktime to call the Motion engine and have the images processed in the background, while Quicktime hands off an image to the app, all as if it were a regular Quicktime movie. With Motion 2, Quicktime does the same for AE. It does seem magical, though, eh?

[Cinemareen]

Cause I saw the tutorial called”Make Element Grow” in the frontpage
I can’t use AE, so I was wondering if Motion could do the same thing?

Now i know how to use mask to make things grow,
but i can’t find the “Stroke” effect that tutorial use.
Is there a similar effect in Motion?

Thanks~

[Greg Niles]

I just watched the tutorial, yes everything in there can be done with Motion, but of course it wouldn’t be the exact same steps since Motion has quite a different workflow.

You can do a “stroke” in Motion by drawing a bezier path using the drawing tools, then use the replicator with a small round shape to animate a stroke using that path (using the Replicator Sequence behavior). Then use the resulting animated stroke as an image mask for the original Photoshop layer you want to grow. A Motion user who posts here, specialcase, has written some great tutorials on how to create write-on effects using the replicator:

https://homepage.mac.com/specialcase/tutorials/repline/repline1.html

— Greg

[Cinemareen]

I can’t find the replicate button in my Motion1
is it only in Motion2.0 ???

thanks

[Doyle Rockwell]

Yep, the replicator is a new feature in Motion 2.