Doyle Rockwell
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Howdy,
It’s been ages with multiple attempts by people to contact them (him?). At this point they’d have to do a lot of rewriting, because LayerLink depended on an input-manager hack that has been closed in Leopard.
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Howdy,
You can attach an object (or group) to the camera using a Match Move behavior. However, if you just want certain objects to ignore the camera (i.e. always be in the foreground or background, however much the camera moves), just put them in a 2D group at the root level of your project. For example, if you had a Layers List like this:
-2D Group
– Foreground object 1
– Foreground object 2
-3D Group
– Some object 1
– Some object 2
-2D Group
– Background object 1
– Background object 2The contents of the top 2D group will always be on top and will ignore any camera movement. The bottom 2D group will always be behind everything and will also ignore the camera movement.
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Howdy,
You would use the Track Points behavior. If you’re doing image-analysis-type tracking of footage, each point on the shape can track a different feature in the footage. If you’re trying to track (follow the movement of) animated objects, you’re limited to tracking a single object. What you can do, however, is tell the behavior to affect only one point on the line so that that point follows the animated object. The other point will be unaffected and will stay static or can be keyframed.
An example movie can be found here. The project is here.
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Howdy,
For the specific thing you’re doing, you can just set the fill mode of the text to “gradient”. Select the text, go to the Inspector, view the Style subtab, go to the Face section and set the Fill With parameter to “Gradient”. Change the default gradient so that it doesn’t affect the color, but set the gradient’s opacity tags to whatever works for you.
Keep in mind, though, that this only applies to text, and is done per-character, so you can’t achieve an across-the-word fade like example #2. For that, you’ll need to use an image mask (which is also what you’d use to fade anything but text). There’s a tutorial on that here.
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Howdy,
Do you mean making the text transparent via a gradient, like either of these examples?
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Howdy,
If you click and drag through the font names in the HUD, Motion will dynamically change the font.
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Howdy,
Based on reports from the Apple Motion forum, it looks like there is a problem with the free version of Flip4Mac: if you have the thumbnails enabled in the File Browser, Motion crashes when viewing the contents of a folder that contains any WMV movie files. Motion asks Quicktime to generate the thumbnail, Quicktime asks Flip4Mac to convert the WMV, and then Flip4Mac crashes. Apparently this only happens with the free version of Flip4Mac. Remember, Quicktime (and the Apple Pro Apps) doesn’t natively support WMV.
The easiest workaround is to turn off the thumbnail view in the File Browser in Motion, using the list view, instead. I’d also check out the Flip4Mac site and see if they’re planning to fix the problem.
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Howdy,
In the Inspector, toggle off the checkboxes for the trackers that you don’t want to get reanalyzed. This also hides them from view in the Canvas.
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Howdy,
If I understand the dip-to-color correctly, you can just straddle your stills with a Color Solid generator that has a Fade In / Fade Out applied to it.
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Howdy,
You can copy/paste keyframes using Cmd+C/V, but to do an entire channel (Position, Rotation, etc.) you use drag-and-drop. Just drag the channel or parameter name from the Inspector to the target object in the Layers List or Timeline. For example, you can drag the entire transforms group (Position, Rotation, Scale) or you could drag just the Scale.Y parameter.