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Motion 5.2 Won’t Share
We’re in the midst of switching from FCP Studio to X. Working on Mac Pro (Mid 2010) 2×2.66 6-Core Intel Xeon. 12 gig mem. Radeon HD 5770 graphics card. We have been successfully using Motion 5 for a couple of years now, but, have finally gotten around to updating to Yosemite, and so needed to upgrade Motion. Everything seems to work well. However, when I attempt to Export a Movie from Motion…nothing happens. After doing this, everything in the Share menu is then greyed out except Send to Compressor. So, I installed Compressor 4.2 and sadly, that’s my workaround. I am able to Save Current Frame. I am able to Export an Image Sequence, but, I cannot Export a Movie or a Selection. Most frustrating. Any thoughts or ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Evan Fitzer
Kamloops, BC -
7 Replies
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Trashing preferences usually fixes issues like this. If that doesn’t do it, delete the app and redownload from the App Store.
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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, Mark. I’ll give that a go. And just so I get it right, could you give me the trash prefs procedure. I don’t do it that often and am admittedly rusty.
Evan Fitzer
Kamloops, BC -
1) Quit Motion.
2) Navigate to User/Library/Preferences.
3) Locate com.apple.motionapp.LSSharedFileList.plist and com.apple.motionapp.plist and delete them.—
Mark Spencer
Freelance Producer/Editor/Motion Graphics Artist
Apple-certified Master Trainer
Author, Motion 4 from Peachpit Press
https://www.applemotion.net -
Also now hold option + cmd upon app launch instead like FCP X.
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Hi guys. Thanks for your help. Sorry to report that trashing prefs, then deleting and re-installing made no difference. Motion works, and acts fine, I just cannot “Export a Movie” from the Share menu or by using Cmd+e. If anybody can think of anything else, I’d be much obliged.
Cheers.Evan Fitzer
Kamloops, BC -
Try logging in as a different user account.
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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 -
My motion has decided to no longer display a splash screen. It’s running fine, but something has obviously gone awry. I deleted prefs and reinstalled the app and it still has no splash screen. It’s been 6 months, time to rebuild the computer from scratch again I guess! Or just a new user as Mark points out.
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