Mark Spencer
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From the Motion 2 Late Breaking News PDF on Apple’s site:
(sorry for the formatting)Adobe After Effects Integration You can import a Motion project directly into an After Effects project, preserving its quality without intermediate rendering of QuickTime movies or image sequences. Because After Effects interprets the Motion project as a movie, any operation that can be applied to a QuickTime movie can be applied to a Motion project. Once a Motion project is opened in After Effects, you can invoke the Edit Original command from the After Effects timeline to launch Motion and modify a project in Motion. Once the project is modified and saved in Motion, it is automatically updated in After Effects. Opening Motion projects in After Effects is certified only for After Effects 6.5, and has not been tested with other versions of After Effects. Motion must be installed on the same computer in order to view, edit, and render Motion projects from After Effects. To use a Motion project in After Effects: 1 In After Effects, choose File > Import > File. 2 In the Import File dialog, do the following:
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It’s off by default so that the movie will play on older, slower computers – high quality requires a higher data rate. That being said, it’s on by default in QT7.
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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)
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Keyframes in Motion work on the curves between points, it’s a little different than AE – so if you want the current point to have an ease in, you actually need to select the previous point and choose ease in. Think of it as always working forwards from the selected keyframe, never backwards.
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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 -
You need to make sure you are dragging to the correct object – usually it’s INSIDE the layer called “Replace Here”.
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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 -
I second Adolfo – great stuff!
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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 -
No – the video card is not supported.
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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 -
Why should it give you a pull-down menu? You only get a drop menu if you are bringing in a multi-layer .PSD (Photoshop file), not a PDF.
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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 -
3rd party Motion compatible plugins listed on applemotion.net, bottom left.
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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 -
That could be your problem – that is an underpowered card to begin with for running Motion, and by using two monitors you are splitting the VRAM in half – by switching to one monitor and getting a new card with 256MB of RAM, you will effectively quadruple your ram (and the GPU on the new card won’t hurt either!)
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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 -
Philip, your excellent advice and sense of humor will be sorely missed by this Cow denizen.
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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