Kirk Matkin
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Hey, thanks for that. This is an old post and I have moved on to a pair of rMBP 15s. Didn’t run into any issues with that big project last September with them, so I guess the issue is resolved with the new hardware (at least for me).
However, your post will be good info for those using older MBP and Motion that experience this issue.
Kirk Matkin
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Agreed, I have worked exclusively in Motion for years because it is so much faster for me. I haven’t touched AE for at least 5 years or so. I am just finding some strange behaviors in Motion 5 with this initial project I am using it on like this disappearing ai thing, long hangs, and a few other weird things that have happened in the past few days.
I will hang with it for another day and see if I can get this early stuff done efficiently. I have 2 very complicated and long animations with tons of layers and effects to do after this and I don’t want to get hung out to dry if Motion 5 is going to fight me on it. I do this project every year for this same client and it has worked out great with Motion 3 and then 4 over the past 5 years. I was hoping to really fly with the new MBP and Motion 5 but my confidence is shaken (and I lost all of my Boris and Red Giant plugins with FXPlug2 non-compatibility). That was an unexpected surprise, and not a good one. I still don’t know what I will do about that since none of the updates will be available in time for this project.
Thanks very much for your help and the info. Back to the salt mines now…
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Thanks for the info. That is disappointing considering how much I paid for what was supposed to be a pretty top of the line mbp. Is it a graphics card issue in the way Motion works with it or just the card itself regardless of the program?
In other words, will this also happen in AE or does AE play nicer with its own ai files set without fixed resolution?
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All Graphics that are disappearing are ai files (CS5), fixed resolution is off, sized up to 115%.
brand new 2011 MBP with 2.3 GHz i7 Quad, 8 GB RAM, AMD Radeon HD 6750M
So I tried switching the media to fixed resolution ON and it seems to work. Can you explain this to me? Is this a bug? I would assume using vector art that you need to blow up, you would want fixed resolution off so you don’t get pixelization.
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Yep. I am working in Motion 5 on a project with multiple semi-transparent layers and random ones will just disappear for a couple of frames and then come back. Sometimes if i change a parameter in that layer it will fix it and sometimes not. I am working on a deadline and thought Motion 5 would be faster. It is way slower and has so many bugs, I can’t get any work done.
I am debating going back to FCP7 and Motion 4 or just finally stop clinging to Apple and go back to Adobe AE. Very sad about being forced into this decision.
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I have a similar problem with BCC Page Turn in FXPlug. It is fine on any static setting but as soon as you add keyframes to animate offset, it stays static at the first keyframe and does not animate. I have BCC 7 and just got it at the end of August. No update is listed on the Boris site for BCC 7.x
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