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Motion 5 and Vector Graphics?
My work ended up getting me Apple Motion 5 which is really fun to mess around with so far. But there are two questions I couldn’t find the answer for when Googling. I’m hoping someone could help.
1) I have two screens and found the “show Canvas in second monitor” thing and it looks ok, but what’s left on the first monitor has each of the columns file browser/library/inspector, timeline, and timeline itself are either too big or too small width wise. Is there any way to adjust the panels/windows of Motion to my specification? I want to have only the canvas on the second monitor, and the rest on the first, and sorted to how I like. But it stops at a certain width and you can’t go any smaller.
2) Is there anyway to import a vector graphic, like an Illustrator file, where I can still adjust each individual layers? All the things I found about this pertains to Motion 4.
When I import an Illustrator file into Motion, it just imports as a picture that has been merged. I had watched a tutorial on something similar to what I want to do, but it was for Motion 4 and they said that with a psd file, you can click and hold over the canvas and you can have the option of adding all layers and such. So I did that by converting the file to psd, and doing the whole click and hover, then import all layers. And it worked! I have all the layers. EXCEPT, now the picture doesn’t show up. 🙁
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks~
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12 Replies
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Sorry, no on both counts. You can, however, with vector artwork, disable “Fixed Resolution’ so that you can scale the layer as large as you like with no loss of resolution.
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Mark Spencer
Freelance Producer/Editor/Motion Graphics Artist
Apple-certified Master Trainer
Author, Motion 4 from Peachpit Press
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🙁 Thanks for the reply.
I did, however, learn about that fixed resolution thing by watching your tutorial. 🙂
Do you have any idea why the psd are not showing up when I import as layers though?
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In Photoshop, make sure the file is 8-bit (not 16) and the color space is RGB (not CMYK or anything else) – if that’s not it, also check that you’ve rasterized any layer effects (glow, stroke, drop shadow, etc.).
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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 -
It worked! Thank you, you are amazing. 😀
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So what was the issue? Your solution may help others if you post what it was.
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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 -
The graphic was done in Illustrator so I had export it as a psd and saved it. But it was saved as a CMYK. I just made sure to save it as RGB. Now the only other problem that I seem to be seeing is that once imported into Motion, the square have stairstep when you zoom in and it looks ragged.
We’re trying to recreate a pile of paper so there’s a bunch of layers at an angle, and importing it into Motion seems to not keep the quality of a vector graphic.
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If you resolution independence you have to import the Illustrator file or a .pdf file.
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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 -
But then we would lost the ability to edit in Motion with the layers, correct?
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Correct you need to save separate Illustrator files for each layer,
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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 -
Ok, thanks for your help. I have another question… I’m trying to mess with the particle emitters to kind of do an effect where the stack of paper are going into a computer screen. I’m having trouble making it go on a path I want and stop at a certain point (AKA, when it goes “into” the computer”)
What’s the best way to do this?
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