Chris Northcross
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You can remap the command to any key you wish. I set mine to the F1 key.
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Could you post a screen grab of your timeline? I think it would help to contextualize things.
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You can add a “stop” behavior and set it to apply to the scale parameter of your object at the time you want the scaling to cease.
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How many instances of the ‘Align To’ behavior are you using? I’ve found that the more you use it in a project the more unwieldy it becomes until you start to get the performance outcomes you’re describing.
In my case I wound up re-building the project as I couldn’t get the original to open without the beach ball of death starting up and causing Motion to hang .
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I believe its also available at https://motionally.com for download as well. Scroll down the page a bit and its there under bonus: free scripts for motion + illustrator users.
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That’s a little bit more involved. You’d be doing a few things. First off you’d still need to roto that area so that be able to remove the background. That would effectively create a “hole” where the background was.
Then you’d need to create a “clean plate” that you’d use to cover the hole. The clean plate would need to be tracked somehow so that it would stay attached over the hole in the background if and when the camera moves.
Then you’d probably need to do some compositing to make the clean plate blend into the background. If any objects pass in front of that area while your clean plate area is onscreen (i.e. the woman in the purple shirt moves by it) you’d need to roto those objects as well.
Usually, if you want to remove something from a background, your best bet is to use a blue or green screen and then chroma key out the colors.. Removing backgrounds via chroma keying is generally much, much, much easier than trying to rotoscope something out once it’s shot.
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Rotoscoping is the general answer here. What all are you looking to remove?
Depending on what all needs to be removed, you likely will want to use a tool package that is specifically geared towards roto work like After Effects (which has a tool called Roto Brush), Mocha, or Silhouette FX or farm the shot/shots out to a roto artist.
In the event that you’re thinking about doing the roto work yourself, be advised that it can be a very time-consuming, painstaking affair. It’s not a fast process even with some of the automated tools.
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Another option just as wonky is to import them into Motion and then save them as a generator that you can bring into FCP X.
\”Whether you think you can or can\’t, you\’re right.\”
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I too have found a similar problem with the Align behavior. I’ve used it twice in projects and each time the project ground to a halt when I had a large number of instances of the behavior in use. I’d say around 15 or so (this is an estimate). I could not interact with the project beyond opening it before the spinning ball of death appeared.
\”Whether you think you can or can\’t, you\’re right.\”
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“The ability to add sliders to add to an expression. For example, have an object move around like it is a bit crazy. Then with the slider controls I can keyframe the values that go into the random expression.”
That sounds like something you could set up using rigging and randomize behaviors unless i’m misunderstanding something.
“Whether you think you can or can’t, you’re right.”