[Mark Spencer]

No, you don’t need to move those files.

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Mark Spencer
Freelance Editor/Producer
Apple-certified instructor, FCP, DVDSP and Motion
Author, Motion Visual Quickstart Guide from Peachpit Press
https://www.applemotion.net

[Mark Spencer]

Turns out we needed to go back to the older Blackmagic codec! We were using 5.4, needed to go back to 5.1.
Mark

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Mark Spencer
Freelance Editor/Producer
Apple-certified instructor, FCP, DVDSP and Motion
Author, Motion Visual Quickstart Guide from Peachpit Press
https://www.applemotion.net

[Mark Spencer]

We are having trouble being able to play QT clips captured as BlackMagic 8-bit DVOO. We get audio but just a white screen. They won’t play in FCP at all. FCP 5.0.4, QT 7.1, OS 10.4.6. I’m afraid it may be a QT 7.1 issue, can anyone confirm?
Mark

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Mark Spencer
Freelance Editor/Producer
Apple-certified instructor, FCP, DVDSP and Motion
Author, Motion Visual Quickstart Guide from Peachpit Press
https://www.applemotion.net

[Mark Spencer]

Unplugging the monitor won’t stop the VRAM split – you need to disable it with the card’s interface, usually available in system prefs.

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Mark Spencer
Freelance Editor/Producer
Apple-certified instructor, FCP, DVDSP and Motion
Author, Motion Visual Quickstart Guide from Peachpit Press
https://www.applemotion.net

[Mark Spencer]

Running two displays with Motion splits the VRAM on the graphics card in half and impacts performance – try disabling one of the displays.

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Mark Spencer
Freelance Editor/Producer
Apple-certified instructor, FCP, DVDSP and Motion
Author, Motion Visual Quickstart Guide from Peachpit Press
https://www.applemotion.net

[Mark Spencer]

Filters and transitions applied in FCP won’t show up in Motion. That’s just how it works – Motion looks at the underlying media. However, Any transformations from the Motion tab in FCP (scale, opacity, rotation, aspect, etc.) WILL come through in Motion, including keyframes. Thus Jim’s good recommendation to keyframe opacity instead of using a transition. I do wish Motion would include some transition effects to accomodate this workflow issue.
Mark

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Mark Spencer
Freelance Editor/Producer
Apple-certified instructor, FCP, DVDSP and Motion
Author, Motion Visual Quickstart Guide from Peachpit Press
https://www.applemotion.net

[Mark Spencer]

I just came back from NAB where I used the new 15″ MacBook Pro and I was shocked how well it works with Motion compared to my 1.5Ghz PowerBook. The processor is an ATI X1600, and the realtime playback was actually realtime playback on this machine, even with a particle system, text animations with blurs, and chroma keying.
Mark

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Mark Spencer
Freelance Editor/Producer
Apple-certified instructor, FCP, DVDSP and Motion
Author, Motion Visual Quickstart Guide from Peachpit Press
https://www.applemotion.net

[Mark Spencer]

Try turning on fixed resolution for the background layer in Motion.

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Mark Spencer
Freelance Editor/Producer
Apple-certified instructor, FCP, DVDSP and Motion
Author, Motion Visual Quickstart Guide from Peachpit Press
https://www.applemotion.net

[Mark Spencer]

You need to 1) set your background to 0% opacity in edit>project properties (should be that way by default) and 2) export as “lossless plus alpha”. But why export at all? Just import the Motion project file itself into FCP and you’ll have your alpha channel.
Mark

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Mark Spencer
Freelance Editor/Producer
Apple-certified instructor, FCP, DVDSP and Motion
Author, Motion Visual Quickstart Guide from Peachpit Press
https://www.applemotion.net

[Mark Spencer]

Set the Traversal to Custom and animate it from -100 to 0 – this will make the animation go backwards.
Mark

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Mark Spencer
Freelance Editor/Producer
Apple-certified instructor, FCP, DVDSP and Motion
Author, Motion Visual Quickstart Guide from Peachpit Press
https://www.applemotion.net