Jason Watson
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The warning sign is telling you that on this particular frame, the tracking point went outside of the parameters you told it to use.
The little ‘x’ next to the exclamation point is the same one used when you use a tracker; my guess for why they display it here is that since the track region doesn’t have a specified point like a tracker, there’s no point for it to show where the error was like it would if you were using a tracker.
As for the best way to stabilize your footage, it’s hard to say without seeing the entirety of what you want to stabilize.
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The next time you open Motion, set the view settings how you want them, then on the menu bar go to View > Save View Defaults.
The next time you open it should open with those settings.
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I would suggest recreating the logo in either Photoshop or Illustrator if you can, especially if you are planning on printing t-shirts. Motion exports images at 72 dpi, which, depending on the size of the artwork, complexity, size of the art of the shirt, particular shirt vendor, etc., might be too low of a resolution and will result in pixelization. It definitely will not be crisp or smooth.
To actually make this work, you’d need the frame size in Motion to be quite a bit bigger than the size you needed for print, so that when you bring it into a Photoshop document set to the correct size it is big enough to not force you to scale up the exported artwork.
There could be an option to export from Motion at a higher resolution, but I am not aware of it.
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Ah.
One thing that does happen (which I think you alluded to) is that if you unlink the audio, change the timing of the video, and then relink, it’s not really ‘linked’ in the sense that thein point of the audio will now follow the in point of the video. If you retime (pull the whole video layer over) by adjusting the in and out point simultaneously), the audio will move with it, but not by the in point.
Curiously, if you manage to pull the in point of the video back to original position, unselect and then reselect the audio will follow it again.
I agree that Send To is a world of hurt…
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No problem 🙂
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Actually, I don’t think the Motion project makes the clip independent in the sense of creating a whole new self-contained instance of that clip; it is still referencing whatever footage was sent to it from FCP. (Assuming they haven’t been made independent, I think.)
Once it nests the Motion project into a .motn sequence, it then references that Motion project. If you needed to extend something, making changes in the Motion project should be reflected in Final Cut, although I don’t think it will automatically adjust the in and out points in the timeline- you might have to do that manually.
To be honest though, I’ve never had much luck with the Send To workflow. I usually have one sequence for editing, and then a duplicated one for sending just in case something goes wrong.
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It’s not an entirely straightforward process, but easy enough to do.
1. Type out your text
2. Add the Sequence Text behavior
3. Set up the basic sequence as you want
4. Select the text layer (not the sequence behavior), right click and select Transform Glyph
5. Select the character you want to modify
6. Go to the final frame of the sequence. Go into the Format tab of the Text properties in the Inspector. Add a keyframe for the Offset. Go back to the beginning frame and adjust the offset as desired.
7. Presumably any parameter that can be animated will work with this, so you can now easily change each glyph without having a bunch of separate text layers.
Hope that helps.
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I think the reason for the issue is that when you do a Send to Motion it actually splits the video and audio into separate components (even if they are linked) since it is assuming (which I think is silly) that the duration of the Motion project is always going to stay the same.
It seems the audio is only being used in Motion as a reference since you’ll notice in the FCP sequence the video layer is turned into a Motion sequence but the audio track remains unchanged.
Importing self-contained movies will definitely solve the problem since the video and audio will come into Motion linked.
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I’m assuming you’ve checked to make sure they are linked?
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My guess is that the shape style in conjunction with all the individual line segments that is taxing the project. Each particle of the stroke is actually a little movie, and so when you have a lot of line segments with that shape style it’s not surprising that it’s dragging. Try setting all the shape styles to Basic Solid and see if there’s any improvement in the performance.
It’s sort of like in Illustrator- if you have a ton of little paths it will bring it to its knees.