Jay Carr
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I ran into the same problem, and have on a couple projects. My only solution so far has been to use another editor to resync audio after exporting from Motion…
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Maybe try linking the location parameter to the scale parameter?
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You could probably create the effect fairly easily by using the “Sequence Text” behavior. Though I suppose saying that isn’t terribly helpful…
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Report the bug to Apple. I was having an issues with .psd files from CS 5 and I called AppleCare about it. They forwarded me to their “Creative Team”, who tried to talk me through it. They were useless, but in their defense Motion 5 had been out all of 2 days. They contacted me a week ago though asking for the file and a description of the problem. Apparently the bug was reported to the developers and they wanted the files so they could test it themselves and try and fix the problem. Nice of them…
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Well, I can’t offer any solution (only Apple can), but if it makes you feel any better…it’s driving me crazy too.
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I’d probably just make the project 3D and just go with it. Motion does…weird things sometimes.
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48pt sounds a bit small, how are you enlarging the text? Sometimes when I use the Z axis to make things bigger they get all jaggedy if my render settings are low…
Speaking of which, are you sure you have your render settings turned all the way up? That might also cause some jaggedies.
Not entirely certain, just hoping if I throw out a few thoughts it will pull your mind out of its rut and you’ll see the problem :-).
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Yes. Go to the style panel for the actual text and change the glow that is there (took me forever to figure this out the first time it happened to me, but it’s really simple to fix.)
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Oh duh. Yeah, you’re totally right on the green screen thing. I seem to have green screen on the brain these days… It can certainly be done with clever use of masking.
Personally, I’d still do the green screen, but that’s just because I can always use the practice ;-).
PS — I was looking through the distortion effects list and they have one called “underwater” that looks like it would create almost the exact effect you are looking for on those arms. I’d try that one first.
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I think Motion could likely do that. The steps would be vaguely like this.
1) Take awesome video of oneself dancing around in front of a green screen. Preferably with a really high quality camera because pulling a key with shadows like that would be difficult with a low quality camera.
2) Key out the background and replace it with whatever you want.
3) At different points in the video pull out still shots. Leave those shots layered on top of each other.
4) Ah the trick. It seems pretty clear to me that he is not in fact moving after he leaves a position. Rather, he is quite cleverly manipulating a still shot. Contracting and expanding could be easily done by simply resizing the image in and out. The part I don’t know if motion can do is actually bending those photos… Maybe it could be done with a 4 corners keyframing effect? Not sure…
Anyway, that might get you started right there. You just need to figure out how to make the arms bend is all…