Mark Spencer
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Assuming you have Motion 4, you could do this quite easily with the Numbers generator.
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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 a renamed, keyframed, parameter behavior
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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 -
Excellent, glad that worked, and thanks for posting your results – not enough folks do that.
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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 -
Have you opened your computer to look at the card? May well be clogged with dust and need a good cleaning.
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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 -
You aren’t doing anything wrong. Certain changes to a layer or group cause it to become rasterized, or precomped -forcing it to be composed in layer order. Changing opacity is one of those (changing blend modes and certain filters will do it as well). Motion alerts you to this fact by putting a box around the 3d stack icon in the Layers tab and a blue LED dot next to the offending parameter in the Inspector.
You’ll need to find an alternative approach. One is to add the behavior to each of the layers. Another is to keyframe the camera’s far fade so it won’t see as far into the distance.
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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 -
Are you using Motion 4? If so, sounds like you need to reinstall.
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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 -
All the presets are codec-independent. All they do is set the frame size, pixel aspect ratio, frame rate, etc. You can add footage that has any Quicktime codec and render to any codec you like. Just pick a preset that matches your source footage specs.
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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 -
Just click the color swatch instead of using the RGB sliders – it will bring up the OS X Color Picker, where you can enter standard 0-255 8-bit RGB values.
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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 copy over all the media from LiveType (textures, backgrounds) plus the LiveFonts, so you can access them in Motion? You don’t really need the app for anything..
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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 -
I would use ProRes 4444 – virtually lossless, includes an alpha channel, and is more efficient than Animation.
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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