Don Eitner
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The only thing I can think (but I’m fairly new to Motion) is if you added an Optional Build-In marker on your fade-in, then it will only show if you check the box for it after applying the effect/title within FCPX.
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I’ve just started working with markers in Motion myself. If you open the help file and search for “loop marker” (no quotes), then the result “Working With Markers in Templates” should help you out.
Depending on the effect you want, you can use Build In, Build Out and Loop markers to e.g. force the effect to perform some task at the same rate all the time or to loop around and keep doing the same thing for as long as the clip the effect is applied to.
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Out of curiosity, as I am also learning the finer points of Motion, would it involve a Repel behavior? Can a stationary object be set to repel other objects which move toward it, or does that behavior have to be on the moving object?
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Is this for use within Motion itself or as a clip in Final Cut? If the star field will be used as a clip within Final Cut, you could just render it out from Motion as a movie and then in Final Cut go into the Speed setting for the clip and set it to reverse.
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There’s also the old trick of cutting away to some other short shot (a reaction, etc.) and then cutting back to the 2nd clip.
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Thanks for the suggestion. I’m running Motion 5 but only have Final Cut Express 4 (since I only work on quick, short projects I didn’t go in for FCPX, maybe next year).
I found Reduce Banding in FCE4 and it does help but not significantly. Curiously the video displayed in FCE4 is quite a bit darker than when played in QuickTime X and the banding is already less noticeable because of that. I suspect the 2 apps use different color spaces or have different ideas about gamma.
But the image displayed within Motion 5, prior to exporting as ProRes, looks really good with very minimal banding. I just can’t get it to export looking that way.
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Which version of Motion are you running (3, 4, 5)? If it’s 5, be aware that the recent update for that came through the App Store rather than Software Updates. I’m running 5.0.1 here on a much lesser system (quad 3.2GHz, 12GB RAM and Radeon 5770) and find it very responsive most of the time. Locking up for 1-4 minutes would prompt a call to support.
Don Eitner
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Thank you Mark, I will try that. My window was non-rectangular (rounded top) which is why I used an image mask to cut it out of the wall. I’ll need work out how to build a curve with depth for that top edge, or else try not to be so fancy on my first try. 🙂