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Rendering
I have a 38 minute movie I have created in motion and when I render the movie the sound plays twicw as fast and it renders in slow motion. I have done this before with smaller movies and have had no problems. It also says it will take like 20 hours to render. Is there a good setting and how can I insure my audio is matching up? Lately I have been using AE because it is much more stable but Motion is very cool in its real time playback. Any suggestions on a good render setting so I can send this off to have it burned to DVD? Can I send this to FCP and have it render faster and better with audio matching up?
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Dave,
I would say a 5 minute export out of Motion is a long one! Try breaking the project up into chunks and reassembling in FCP.
I’ve always thought of the audio in Motion as a guide track.
Peter
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Thank you. I am fairly new to motion so it is rewarding and frustrating. Are you saying render the movie in short segments and then assemble in FCP or AE?
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FCP
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I am rendering is the lowest draft mode possible just to check sound and it says it will take an hour and 36 minutes for three minutes of the 38 minute video. Does this sound right?
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It keeps rendering in slow motion. Do you know what would cause that?
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Well now I have lost my sound….I wished I would have stayed with AE. Next time it is AE. Apple needs to put Motion back into beta. It’s buggy software at best. Anyone wanting to know, Adobe After Effects is proven and Motion is experimental. Don’t use it unless you are working on something you don’t care about.
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I’ve had similar problems to what you’ve described, but as I looked deeper, it was because I was trying to export out at a different setting than what I had setup for my project. Example: Having an HD project at 60p, but then trying to export out at SD 29.97.
Typically, what I like to do is export out at Sequence Settings (typically Animation with Alpha – even if I don’t need Alpha) and then use FCP, Compressor, or QuickTime to compress to the format I need. This has worked every time for me.
I will say that the render times in Motion are huge even on my not too shabby machine. Take for instance, the 30 min infomercial I’ve been working on since 8 am yesterday morning, non-stop for 28 hours (minus about 5 hours for renders).
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[Dave Montague] Apple needs to put Motion back into beta. It’s buggy software at best. Anyone wanting to know, Adobe After Effects is proven and Motion is experimental. Don’t use it unless you are working on something you don’t care about.
I’ve used Motion on hundreds of projects with very little problems. A matter of fact, a lot of them I completed faster in Motion then I would have if I used AE. I’m not sure why you created a 38 minute long movie. Motion works best if you break your projects into pieces. I would leave the editing to FCP and the Motion Graphics to Motion.
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I guess that’s why we’re able to ’round-trip’ so easily between Motion and FCP.
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round-trip, what a cool feature!
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