Motion 4 template

[Mark Spencer]

Why don’t you ask the vendor from whom you purchased the template?

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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

[Jeff Mack]

Hi Mark, as I said, it was one of Szymon’s free templates. I have just started working in Motion and was using this as an exercise to help me learn. I did contact Szymon but he is around the world so I was hoping for a clue from someone here in the states. I hope I didn’t offend you for asking for advice on a free template. He offers several for free and I didn’t think it was an etiquette issue but apologize if it is.

Jeff

[Stephen Smith]

Jeff,
Feel free to ask any question you want. There is nothing wrong with asking the question you did. Do you want to extend the length of the whole template or just the drop zones?

Stephen Smith
Utah Video Productions

Check out my Motion Training DVD

Check out my Motion Tutorials

[Jeff Mack]

Hi Stephen. Here is my issue on the template: it was a drop zone that cracks and falls away. there were like 6 layers per drop zone. It starts with the pieces coming up to make a drop zone, then the video plays and then it cracks up and falls away. I was trying to extend only the center section so the video plays a bit longer before the pane cracks. Szymon emailed me back and said it was not easy to do . I tried what was suggested in that video you sent by dragging the keyframes proportionately but that messed up as well. I went to plan b and used the shorter motion length and did a fit to fill in FCP

Jeff

[Mark Spencer]

Agreed, of course, ask any question you like – I’m just suggesting that the best resource for a template you purchased is probably the author…

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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]

Jeff, happy you found a solution to your problem and thanks for sharing with the rest of us.

And I hope my comment did not sound like a slam towards Mark Spencer. I don’t personally know him and I have never meet him. But I think he is a great guy who wants to help people out and show them how powerful Motion really is. His advice is great.

Best of luck.

Stephen Smith
Utah Video Productions

Check out my Motion Training DVD

Check out my Motion Tutorials

[Mark Spencer]

Didn’t sound that way to me 🙂
I look forward to meeting you one day, Stephen!

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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