Andy Neil
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If there is just some weird connection thing going on, you might be able to work around it.
Re-import the video clip into the same group as current video. Then drag any adjusted parameters (ie: Transform, Blend Modes, etc.) from the broken video onto the newly imported video. You should be able to quickly replace the broken linked video with proper moving video.
On the subject of the problem:
I’ve seen issues like this before. Usually it happens when an FCP project has been media managed and the clips that were sent to Motion have been trimmed. The media start/end times on the trimmed media no longer matches what Motion recalls, so even when you reconnnect the clip, you get a still image instead of moving video. I wonder if that is what happened to you.
Andy
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You can also drag a motion project from the file browser into the layers pane of another project. All the projects layers will copy into the new project.
Andy
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Well, there’s no magic bullet for this shot. Use the track points filter to get you most of the way, and hand-roto the last frames. At least track points will save you some time.
Look at the bright side: At least you’re roto’ing a house with sharp angles. That cuts way down on the number of mask points you need.
Andy
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Yeah, sorry sean, I didn’t mean to call it a filter. Wasn’t paying attention to my syntax. Stephen is right. It’s the behavior in the shape section.
Andy
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Unless you set your export to Alpha only, then I doubt you hit anything by accident to cause your problem.
Andy
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How’d the track points filter work out? It seems like this would be the solution to your problem.
Andy
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Have you tried the track points filter?
Andy
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Use the sequence text behavior. Add opacity as the parameter and set to 0. Change the sequencing to To, and the Unit Size to Line.
Use the direction Left to Right if you want the text to fade from the top down. Change to Right to Left if you want to fade the text out from the bottom up.
The spread controls how abrupt the fade out is. Left at one is probably desirable, but 0 will cause the lines to blink out instead of fade, and higher numbers will bleed the fade through to the other lines. 1 or 2 is probably where you want to be there.
Andy
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Hmm. I wonder if that’s because of the channel swap filter?
Andy
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Badass, Mark. Really Badass. I don’t think I’ve ever even used the min/max filter before.
This has given me a few ideas. Can’t wait to try them out.
Andy