Motion 5: why (still) no broadcast monitor support?

[Noah Kadner]

as you’d probably never finish a project completely in Motion I don’t see this as a big deal. You could always go HDMI to a monitor if you were concerned about framing or such but most likely you’d be doing your final output in FCPX or something like DaVinci where broadcast monitoring is much more critical.

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[Alan Okey]

[Noah Kadner] “As you’d probably never finish a project completely in Motion I don’t see this as a big deal.”

Respectfully, I disagree. Who said anything about finishing? Lack of proper broadcast monitoring limits Motion’s utility for broadcast design. The ability to tweak chroma keys or check for interlacing issues on a proper broadcast monitor while working on a composite or a motion graphics composition is critical. It’s unwieldy to have to continually switch to another application to check output.

After Effects, Combustion, Smoke and even Motion v.1-4 have broadcast monitor support. It’s either a silly oversight or a poor design choice that Motion 5 still lacks this basic feature, especially when it’s already been added to FCP X.

[Alex Gollner]

Installing PixelConduit (for free) gives you scopes, which might help.

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[Stephen Smith]

I agree with Alan.

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[Dave Jenkins]

I agree too. Why take away something that was there and working! Put it back!

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[Gareth Randall]

[Alan Okey] “The ability to tweak chroma keys or check for interlacing issues on a proper broadcast monitor while working on a composite or a motion graphics composition is critical”

Absolutely. It makes no sense that you can’t be watching Motion 5’s output on a broadcast monitor when building a motion graphics sequence. That’s one of the reasons I’m still on Motion 4.

[Stephen Smith]

Gareth, I agree. I purchased Motion 5 the day it came out and then switched back to Motion 4 within an hour. I spend much more time in After Effects because of this.

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[Tom Fuldner]

Thank you for the tip regarding the scopes in Pixelconduit. They work like a charm in Motion 5.

Tom