[Mark Spencer]

With DVGarage’s new DVMatte Blast, Motion becomes a great realtime keyer: https://dvgarage.com/prod/prod.php?prod=dvmatteb
Mark

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Mark Spencer
Freelance Editor/Producer
Apple-certified instructor, Final Cut Pro and Motion
Author, Motion Visual Quickstart Guide from Peachpit Press (coming soon)
https://www.applemotion.net

[Mark Spencer]

Would love to have a preference to set those to taste!!

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Mark Spencer
Freelance Editor/Producer
Apple-certified instructor, Final Cut Pro and Motion
Author, Motion Visual Quickstart Guide from Peachpit Press (coming soon)
https://www.applemotion.net

[Mark Spencer]

Here’s the deal, IMHO: Motion automatically causes position keyframes to be interpolated as bezier, but scale keyframes are interpreted as linear. I have found that by simply changing the scale keyframes to bezier to match the position keyframes, I get smooth as butter starts and stops.
Mark

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Mark Spencer
Freelance Editor/Producer
Apple-certified instructor, Final Cut Pro and Motion
Author, Motion Visual Quickstart Guide from Peachpit Press (coming soon)
https://www.applemotion.net

[Mark Spencer]

All three Motion books can be found on applemotion.net

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Mark Spencer
Freelance Editor/Producer
Apple-certified instructor, Final Cut Pro and Motion
Author, Motion Visual Quickstart Guide from Peachpit Press (coming soon)
https://www.applemotion.net

[Mark Spencer]

There are several new HD templates that ship with Motion2, but none of the existing templates from Motion1 have an HD version.

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Mark Spencer
Freelance Editor/Producer
Apple-certified instructor, Final Cut Pro and Motion
Author, Motion Visual Quickstart Guide from Peachpit Press (coming soon)
https://www.applemotion.net

[Mark Spencer]

Just turn on Record Animation (A), move the playhead, move the mask

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Mark Spencer
Freelance Editor/Producer
Apple-certified instructor, Final Cut Pro and Motion
Author, Motion Visual Quickstart Guide from Peachpit Press (coming soon)
https://www.applemotion.net

[Mark Spencer]

Use the Replicator to replicate white squares and use the Sequence Replicator behavior to have them squeeze horizontally. Then use that as a mask applied to the image.

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Mark Spencer
Freelance Editor/Producer
Apple-certified instructor, Final Cut Pro and Motion
Author, Motion Visual Quickstart Guide from Peachpit Press (coming soon)
https://www.applemotion.net

[Mark Spencer]

Plug in a midi keyboard and manipulate your video parameters to the soundtrack as you play, works great

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Mark Spencer
Freelance Editor/Producer
Apple-certified instructor, Final Cut Pro and Motion
Author, Motion Visual Quickstart Guide from Peachpit Press (coming soon)
https://www.applemotion.net

[Mark Spencer]

Yes it does – so did Motion 1, btw. Just select all your objects in the File Browser, drag them to the Canvas, but don’t release the mouse – you’ll see options to either edit them in by compositing or sequential.

Note and feature request: you can’t add any overlap to the Sequential option, would be nice to build in overlap to fade between stills, for example

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Mark Spencer
Freelance Editor/Producer
Apple-certified instructor, Final Cut Pro and Motion
Author, Motion Visual Quickstart Guide from Peachpit Press (coming soon)
https://www.applemotion.net

[Mark Spencer]

Use Apple’s compatability checker app to see if you can run Motion:
https://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/motion/specs.html
Mark

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Mark Spencer
Freelance Editor/Producer
Apple-certified instructor, Final Cut Pro and Motion
Author, Motion Visual Quickstart Guide from Peachpit Press (coming soon)
https://www.applemotion.net