[Hoss Wuerslin]

Thanks Mark.

Okay apple, how about fixing this problem that in my humble opinion, never needed to be a problem.

[Hoss Wuerslin]

Thank you all for getting back; we were worried that was the answer.

So if using compresser is not a work around to lower the bit rate back to the good ol’ days, is the only solution to start shelling out more cash for the dual layer DVDs?

Hoss

[Hoss Wuerslin]

That nailed it Bret!
I was not putting in the angle name in the inspector; I was putting it just on the clips.
You are like a god to me now.
Thank you so much.

Hoss

[Hoss Wuerslin]

Hey Andy;

Let’s see if this makes more sense. I have three layers: a tree, a car, a cloud.

Layer tree fades in, followed by car, then cloud.

Watching this, i decide it’s all too short.

Now if i were in Flash, I could park my playhead on the tree layer, select the tree layer, then hit F5 to add frames, making the layer longer and thus that part of the movie play longer.

BUT! that upsets the relationship/placement i so carefully(?) created with the other layers.

So what i really should do is put the playhead where i need to add frames, select ALL layers, add the extra frames to ALL layers, and the relationship between all the layers (example: the fade in relationship to others) stays the same! while the movie gets longer too!

I’m hoping motion can do this, because right now i’m having to go to a layer, stretch it out, then move all the other layers down the timeline to set the whole mess back up so that it plays the way i want it to – tedious.

Does all this make more sense?

Hoss

[Hoss Wuerslin]

Yes, it does a bit. I was just hoping it was like flash where you shift the entire movie – every layer! – down the timeline without disturbing the movie layout other then to exend the experience of it.

thank you though for helping,
Hoss

[Hoss Wuerslin]

Hey all;
Again thanks for the great advice; everything is up and working.

A follow up: I found some of the space between keyframes much too short, and i want to increase the playtime space.

In Flash, I can put the playhead in postion, select all the layers i want to affect, and keep adding frames to increase the play time of the file.

Is such a thing possible in motion, or do i need to grab and drag each individual keyframe?

Thank you,
Hoss

[Hoss Wuerslin]

Thank you all for your help. I’m going to give it a shot now.
Thanks
Hoss

[Hoss Wuerslin]

Well… I have been looking at that. What I just tried was manually going in and creating a keyframe for the X then Y then Z. I was assuming that i could just turn on record, shift the object however, and the whole thing would just pick up from the last keyframe.
Nope.
Now when i looked closer in the keyframe editor, I noticed that the ‘transformpostionY wasn’t being given a keyframe and when i manually went in and added one, it all worked.
Odd.
Thanks for responding though.
hoss