motion 5 won’t open up in El Capitan

[Robin S. kurz]

Been using El Capitan and Motion since the beta even. Works just fine. You might want to try trashing your prefs by holding ⌥⌘ when you start.

And no version of OS X can or will install itself. Even if it downloaded itself, you would still have to confirm the install. So there’s no way you could have turned on your computer and “there it was”.

– RK

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[Terry Maloney]

You are right.
After I posted that last post I remembered I brought my computer in to an Apple Tech.
He must have changed my OS.

If I hold down option/command when I start, will that trash a lot of other preferences also?

Thanks 😀

[Robin S. kurz]

[Terry Maloney] “a lot of other preferences”?

No, just Motion’s of course.

– RK

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[Robin S. kurz]

Whereby with “start with” I of course mean start MOTION with the keys depressed.

– RK

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[Terry Maloney]

Hey, thanks a lot Robin.

[Terry Maloney]

Hi Robin,

I signed up for a video training course which will answer many questions.
One thing I would like to know is:
if I have png image and make a rectangle in the middle and use my color bucket and fill it with GREEN, is this going to work as a green screen does?

Thanks,
Terry

[Mark Suszko]

You may want to describe the shot more fully, but, if you have a still image as a scene, and you make a green square in a separate layer, that square can be chroma-keyed, but all that you’d see is the square becomes invisible. To chromakey , say, a PERSON into your scene, they must be photographed already in front of the green screen material. Then you bring that footage into Motion, crop it a bit and apply the greenscreen chromakey to that.

[Terry Maloney]

Hi Mark 😀

I’m taking a Motion5 training course now……
but
jumping ahead,

Let’s say I had the green square in the picture or video and I wanted to put in a full screen square of video – inside the video —-
oh, that would be like screen in a screen, wouldn’t it?

Terry

[Mark Suszko]

We call that “picture in picture”, and you don’t need the green screen for that, just add the asset to a track, mae the track lay above the track with the background. If the effect you want is going to stay the same, but the pictures may change, a handy shortcut would be to create a “drop zone” in your template, adjust the position of that and save it, then later, drag-and-drop any picture or video you want into the drop zone, without having to re-create all the other moves and positioning.

Good luck learning Motion – I found it pretty simple and intuitive, easier than AfterEffects for sure.

[Terry Maloney]

thanks for the GOOD LUCK !