Mark Spencer
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Here’s a movie that shows the procedure:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9s6c2hScMY
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Mark Spencer
Freelance Producer/Editor/Motion Graphics Artist
Apple-certified Master Trainer
Author, Motion 4 from Peachpit Press
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The link works just fine for me….
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Mark Spencer
Freelance Producer/Editor/Motion Graphics Artist
Apple-certified Master Trainer
Author, Motion 4 from Peachpit Press
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Depends on your hardware but with UnlimitedRT on some of them should play without rendering. But why don’t you just render in order to play back? What are you trying to accomplish?
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Mark Spencer
Freelance Producer/Editor/Motion Graphics Artist
Apple-certified Master Trainer
Author, Motion 4 from Peachpit Press
https://www.applemotion.net -
Ok, here’s how you can do it:
1) Add your image that has transparency.
2) Add the Channel Swap filter and set all the channels to Alpha to create a solid white shape
3) Add the MinMax filter and duplicate the layer.
4) On one layer, set the MinMax to Minimum and adjust to shrink the shape slightly.
5) On the other, set the MinMax to Maximum and adjust to expand the shape slightly.
6) Group the layer with the Maximum setting, add an Image Mask to the group, and drag the other layer to the well in the HUD, then click the Invert checkbox.
There you go, an outline of the alpha channel – and it’s completely adjustable through the MinMax filters.
You could save the group containing all the layers to the Library so you just need to swap out the image for your next one.
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Mark Spencer
Freelance Producer/Editor/Motion Graphics Artist
Apple-certified Master Trainer
Author, Motion 4 from Peachpit Press
https://www.applemotion.net -
Ah, but didn’t you know you can open a Motion 4 project in Motion 3?
https://www.applemotion.net/blog/2009/12/9/open-motion-4-projects-with-motion-3.html
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Mark Spencer
Freelance Producer/Editor/Motion Graphics Artist
Apple-certified Master Trainer
Author, Motion 4 from Peachpit Press
https://www.applemotion.net -
Except the script will only export simple shapes, no compound paths. But I think you can still make an outline out of an image with an alpha channel – seems like there must be a way – must noodle on this a bit.
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Mark Spencer
Freelance Producer/Editor/Motion Graphics Artist
Apple-certified Master Trainer
Author, Motion 4 from Peachpit Press
https://www.applemotion.net -
Assuming you export it to the proper format and include the overlay file, I don’t see why not…
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Mark Spencer
Freelance Producer/Editor/Motion Graphics Artist
Apple-certified Master Trainer
Author, Motion 4 from Peachpit Press
https://www.applemotion.net -
Motion is fantastic for creating DVD menus for DVD Studio Pro. In fact, you can import a Motion project itself directly into DVDSP and apply it as a menu. You just need to create your overlay file as normal, but you can create that in Motion as well and export it as a still image. Also, you can set your DVDSP loop point directly in Motion using a marker that DVDSP recognizes. The Peachpit Motion books and my Fast Forward training DVD covered this subject in detail
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Mark Spencer
Freelance Producer/Editor/Motion Graphics Artist
Apple-certified Master Trainer
Author, Motion 4 from Peachpit Press
https://www.applemotion.net -
Duh. My bad, sorry.
Are you rendering directly out of Motion or a Motion project file embedded in an FCP sequence? If the latter, you need to change the default render settings for Motion project (Sequence > Settings, Render Control tab).
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Mark Spencer
Freelance Producer/Editor/Motion Graphics Artist
Apple-certified Master Trainer
Author, Motion 4 from Peachpit Press
https://www.applemotion.net -
In your render settings, did you enable motion blur?
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Mark Spencer
Freelance Producer/Editor/Motion Graphics Artist
Apple-certified Master Trainer
Author, Motion 4 from Peachpit Press
https://www.applemotion.net