Mark Spencer
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Um – you can’t just uncheck “fixed resolution” on a PSD file – that will only work with a vector file like a .ai or .pdf saved from Illustrator. How did I give the impression it would work on a Photoshop file?
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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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It’s all those text layers.
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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 -
Afraid not.
https://www.apple.com/feedback/motion.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 -
Why not just build your own using the Sequence Text behavior (found in the Text Animation folder in the Text behaviors in the Library)? Add the Blur parameter, and opacity, set the values, and tweak as desired.
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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 -
Click the Remove button to remove the Blur parameter, if that’s what you want to do…
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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 -
View > Background Tasks.
Motion attempts to load all your video into RAM so it’s best to work with shorter clips.
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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 -
Actually, the new iMacs are fantastic with Motion5 and FCP X in my experience (and I teach all over) – much better than a MacPro, even with a beefy card.
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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 does all the heavy lifting on the GPU, not the CPU.
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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 -
ProRes in Motion is fine, but tracking/stabilizing a 5 minute HD clip is a massive job and will create a huge cache file. Normally you would stabilize or track much shorter shots – can you break it down?
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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 -
That’s the problem – you can’t use the same parameter in both the rig AND the snapshot. So if you are already using the group’s position parameters in the rig (I assumed you were using the layer itself), then put the group in ANOTHER group and use THAT group’s position parameters in the snapshots.
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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