Freeze Frame in Apple Motion 4

[Mark Spencer]

In the Properties Inspector, change the End Condition to Hold. Trim as long as you want.

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Mark Spencer
Freelance Producer/Editor/Motion Graphics Artist
Apple-certified Master Trainer
Author, Motion 4 from Peachpit Press
https://www.applemotion.net

[Stephen Smith]

You can add a Hold Frame behavior. Or you can select your clip. Hit F1 to open up the properties tab and go down to the timing area, if you cant see it click on the timing discloser triangle. Go to End Condition and choose Hold. In the timeline hover the cursor over the end of the clip and it will change from an arrow. Click and drag to extend the clip. every thing after it is froZen. or you can change the duration in the duration option in the timing section. Hope this helps and best of luck.

Stephen Smith
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[Erica James]

Thank you! I got the video to stay in place by dragging it to the end of the project. But I used a grow/shrink behavior and although I didn’t drag the behavior with the clip and although its now stationary its changing back to its original size. I need it to remain small after it shrinks.

By the way I am new to this and very nice to meet you! I am learning Motion now with your book Designing and Animating Motion Graphics in Final Cut Studio. I am only in the middle of chapter six now. I just bought the book last week.

[Stephen Smith]

The grow/shrink behavior does not have an ease in ease out ability. I would recommend you use keyframes instead.

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Utah Video Productions

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[Erica James]

ah ok. Unfortunately I am so new with Motion and have not used keyframes yet but I will try it. I’m so close I just need this one last thing to work!

[Stephen Smith]

Take a look at this video tutorial, it talks a little on how to do keyframes.

Creating a Hologram.

Stephen Smith
Utah Video Productions

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[Erica James]

That tutorial was helpful. Should I just make keyframes and keep scaling it down at each one ?

[Stephen Smith]

I thought you wanted it to say start at 100% and then scale down to say 60% scale and then hold at 60% scale. To do that you need to create a scale keyframe at 100. Then move down the time line to where the movement stops and create another keyframe and change the scale to 60. The scale while come to a nice stop because it defaults to a bezier curve. Hope this helps.

Stephen Smith
Utah Video Productions

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[Erica James]

Oh ok. Yeah I was actually making it more difficult than it probably was. I also applied a motion path behavior and it seems to work perfectly except it moves so slowly anyway to make it speed up?

[Erica James]

The custom speed is hidden and wont let me use it.