Don Eitner
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This… is… awesome! I had no idea about the Indent filter. I’ve been layering up and individually coloring shapes by hand like a chump to fake a 3D/embossed look.
How did you come up with the numbers for this tutorial? Lots of trial and error or pencil and paper math?
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I rebuilt the entire transition project from scratch and the glitching is much less, but still present. Of the 25 tiles (in a 5×5 grid) the issue begins with the center-most tile and causes the 2 tiles above it in the center column to temporarily show Transition A when they should be showing Transition B. Then the problem recurs with the center tile of row 4 and again with the center tile of row 5, both showing Transition A in all the tiles above them in the same column.
If it helps to know, the A and B transitions are separated into two Groups and each is cloned to 25 tiles within its own Group. Each tile has a rectangle mask applied and a Spin behavior (180 degrees) lasting for 6 frames each so they “cascade” across the screen row-by-row. A camera was added to make them spin in 3D space. That’s all there is to the project. I can’t think what would be causing this glitching. Any help is appreciated.
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Is the group these objects are in 2D or 3D? In 2D they should “stack” in the order that the layers appear in the layer browser. In 3D they stack by the z-order of the objects’ positions.
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I was thinking about this tip from Mark Spencer about using a gradient mask.
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I know of no way to change the layer position, but if you’re using a camera you’re in 3D space and can have whichever element you want “on top” of (closer to the camera) the other.
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Does anyone have any thoughts (preferably insight) on why the 7950 is so much slower than the 5770 with Motion 5? Could it be as simple as an immature driver in 10.8.3 which might get better in 10.8.4?
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I’ve done something similar; let’s see if I remember how to do it. I believe I made a replicator and the video in separate layers, then I put an image mask on the video and dragged the Replicator itself (not the Replicator source cell) onto the image mask.
Running late so can’t test this out to be sure, but that sounds about right for what I did.
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Not to speak on Andy Neil’s behalf, but a quick Google search turned up an issue from 2010 (with Motion 4.0.3) with the same “Motion to Forces” behaviors (https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2589492?start=0&tstart=0) where Andy gave some advice which worked for the user.
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Thank you, Andy. To be clear, are you suggesting make an image mask of the video layer to represent one tile and then make clones of that, or making clones of the whole video layer and then mask each one off to the size and position needed for each tile?
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I’m not seeing this happen but have been using Motion 5 for a few months now. What OS version are you on (10.6, 10.7 or 10.8)? Also what kind of project where you creating (what did you click from the startup window)?