fun fact….MPEG Stream Clip as Batch encode for Motion Projects

[Jerry Wise]

Motion 4 or 5.? i tried it and got an error from mpegstreamclip.

[Alex Udell]

🙁

hmmmm…..I’m using 3…..

Alex

[Aj Robinson]

Hang on your telling me that you can drag your motion file into MPEG, and it will render it into a movie??

Hope I was helpful,

~AJ

[Alex Udell]

Hey AJ…

well….I remembered the old trick about using motion projects in AE.

You basically set the motion project extension from .motn to .mov

On a lark I then dragged the project to MPEG Stream Clip and it read it.

I then set my render and it worked. FAST.
I have also set the batch list…and it worked fine when I had like 10 versions of something to render.

This is similar to using compressor, as I right click motion projects all the time and render them with compressor droplets. But I’ve found compressor to be a little flaky/glitchy on heavier motion projects. I’ve not yet had any problem with MPEG stream clip.

Now….

let me preface this by saying: I’m using Motion 3 on OS 10.5.8 with QT 7.7.

I can’t vouch for anything past that.

I am very interested in hearing if you guys can make it work with newer versions of Motion, etc.

I had heard/read somewhere that you can spotlight motion projects can be spotlighted in newer versions of OSX, so I assumed that it’s still tied into QT the same way….so it SHOULD work…..but that doesn’t guarantee that it will.

Fingers crossed….

keep me posted…

Alex Udell
Editing, Motion Graphics, and Visual FX

[Aj Robinson]

Yeah it doesn’t work for me (motion 5). It says unrecognized file.

~AJ

[Alex Udell]

That’s a real shame. But I suppose Compressor is a tad bit faster now?

Alex

[Aj Robinson]

I only bought Motion 5 🙁 so I wouldn’t know.

Hope I was helpful,

~AJ

[Chris Northcross]

Yep, this changed with the update to Motion 5. Great trick while it worked though!

“Whether you think you can or can’t, you’re right.”

[Alex Udell]

So I guess with the new Compressor, it’s irrelevant anyway, right?

Alex Udell
Editing, Motion Graphics, and Visual FX

[Chris Northcross]

Mostly.

“Whether you think you can or can’t, you’re right.”