[Jon Waters]

Looks like there are ways to export shapes out of Illustrator though. They are downloadable as .js that can be installed into ill scripts folder.

https://www.applemotion.net/downloads/illustrator-shape-script/

There is another one as well but they both do pretty much the same thing.

So, make your text in Illustrator then export it as shapes then bring it into Motion.

I wish in a future update in motion you could apply stokes to text as you can shapes, then there would be little need for this.

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[Jon Waters]

Thanks so much for this info Don, didn’t have the full folder structure so nothing else to do. I came across this post from last year.
Horrible going into premiere though, like going back to an os 9 app, so clunky.

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[Jon Waters]

Thanks for your replies on this. You have confirmed my suspicions that it is a bug. I’ve spent most of my weekend rendering out parts of the timeline where the generators are and dropping them back in. Two days I can’t charge for really. This bug really takes the shine of using generators and motion for photo albums etc in an edit. Shame really cos it was working really well work flow wise, much faster than using AE.
I have to say I’ve never been a fan of AE for 3d, always ended up in C4D, but motion is so easy. I’m starting to do more and more in motion as I get my head around the way it works, so much different to AE, I need a faster computer though.

I’ve managed to crack the first few lines of code to FCPX and I’ve figured out how Apple are selling so many New Mac Pros.

if computer ≠ 2013 Mac Pro
then on mousedown set curser to spinning beach ball pause 5sec
End

When I get some time I’ll do further tests on the gens see if I can nail down what it is, will report back.

Cheers

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[Jon Waters]

It is lower field footage. It was captured firewire from the camera a canon Xl1.
All upper field footage (most everything else I do) is fine. From After effects, Motion or FCP.
I think it would be pertty unusual if the card was upper field only, I’m sure other cards (AJA and BMD) I have used in the past have been able to handle both upper and lower.

I’m not mixing footage on the same timeline, just pal dv, from the same souce with a preset dv pal timeline settings. Even if I play the footage from the clip window it is still jittery on the BC monitor.

[Jon Waters]

I had similar problems and returned the card twice on one of my 2 identical mac pros. The third card is working perfectly while the other was great from the start. There seams to be a high rate defective manufacturing with these cards.

[Jon Waters]

I have 2 identical systems and are having trouble with one. The other works seamlessly.
The intensity card looses communication with the mother board if the system goes to sleep.
when rebooted the system preference panel show only greged over options.

I’ve tried taking the card out and putting it back in and it works fine for a while. I’ve also tried changing pcie slots, same thing happens. I’ve updated the drivers to version 2.0, still the same.

I bought the cards at the same time just a few weeks ago and only started using the problematic one in the last week as I bought a new BC monitor.

Systems are Mac Pro 2.8×8 10gig ram (also very new).

Jon

[Jon Waters]

Yep it’s UB version, I’m pretty sure iWork came out after the transition to intel and was only written as UB.
Nothing seems to be using much CPU when running iWork and it is only After effects that is effected. C4d and all others run fine.

It’s not a major problem I just thought there might be others experiencing this.

Thanks for your reply
Jon

[Jon Waters]

I had this error on a mac pro I was freelancing on at an agency recently.
The tech swapped the the blackmagic card to another slot then reconfigured the slot speeds (you can change them, which I wasn’t aware of) I think it turned out to be a mother board problem though.

I use firewire out on my own system with FCP and AE and Have not had the error pop up unless the camera is turned off and the preferences for AE are still set to send video to the firewire.