Andy Neil
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You can convert your rectangle to a rectangle mask by dragging and dropping on your video clip. Then you need to invert the mask because you want the rectangle to hide what it’s enclosing, not show.
Andy
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You can add a colorize filter to the layer whose color you want to be able to manipulate. Then publish the parameters for the colorize filter in FCP. Then you should be able to change the color to anything you want inside FCP X.
Andy
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You can do this with the Sequence Text behavior. You create a parameter for opacity and assign it to 0. Then change the speed to custom and use keyframes to time the words fading in.
Andy
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If the export shows up with alpha intact in FCP 7, then it sounds as if Motion is misinterpreting the alpha. Select the clip in Motion. Hit SHIFT+F to select the media in the media tab. Check the inspector and make sure that the alpha is set to Straight.
Andy
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Thank you. I’ve been trying to say the same thing elsewhere. Motion 5 is having a better time of it (people complaining) than FCP X, but it’s hard to explain that to people with their fingers in their ears.
Andy
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I can’t exactly confirm it, but I do know that FCP X has a completely different project structure and media management/organization than FCP 7.
Andy
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It’s not a setting. I just happen to have a lot of fonts on my computer. Since I do design work as well as edit on that computer, I tend to need more fonts than the average person. However, when I record tutorials, I try to stick to basic system fonts so you’re not hunting all over your computer for Greymantle MVB.
Andy
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Can you post your project sans media so we can take a look? What format are you working in? Does the frame rate of the C4D camera match the Motion project?
Andy
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You can page whoever you want, up to and including Batman himself (he’s actually a pretty good motion graphics guy) but it won’t change the limitations of Motion.
The only way to possibly fake what you’re asking is to create a 2D cross-section of the field with all the furrows drawn as dips in the top of the bezier shape. Then use a replicator with a line shape and crank the instances up. Way up. WAAAAAAYYYYY UP.
It’s the same technique you would use to fake 3D text and it has the same limitations. To make the field any decent length, you’ll likely need tens of THOUSANDS of instances. Even then, rotating a camera to view the scene on end will result in gaps in the fake 3D shape where the camera is viewing some instances on end.
I wasn’t being flippant about needing a 3D program. If you’re moving a camera in 3D, you really need to build this in 3D. I use replicators extensively and I’ve been in your position before trying to make it work. At some point we all reach the limitation of the program we’re working in. At that point, it’s time to look for another program to help us out. There are free 3D solutions like Blender, if you can make it work, or you can also re-think your project to make use of what it CAN do.
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Motion does not create true 3D shapes. Depending on what you are trying to do, you can sometimes fake it, but it sounds like what you are trying to make is more or less the realm of a true 3D program like Maya, Cinema 4D or that ilk.
Andy
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