Mark Spencer
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LiveFonts work just great in Motion 4, and if you had the LiveType app installed before, installing the latests FCS does not overwrite it so you can continue to use it. Don’t know why you would though, since you can do everything that you would do there in Motion, and with realtime playback.
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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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You can just import the Motion project itself into FCP and composite it over your video – just make sure to turn off the video layer in Motion first.
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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 is what is intended – you are sending the clip to Motion for reference only. Filters, transitions, and generators never make the trip from FCP to Motion.
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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 -
1) Send the keyed clip but don’t choose the Embed checkbox so that it remains with it’s filter in FCP’s timeline. Then just import and composite your Motion project over it.
2) Export the keyed clip using a codec that supports the alpha channel like Animation or ProRes 4444 and bring that into Motion. No real reason for this unless are you compositing Motion elements above AND below the keyed subject.
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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 -
This is going to be quite difficult to pull off with Motion’s tracker especially if you’ve never done tracking before. I’d highly recommend you do a test first – and if you can’t make it work, try Mocha from Imagineer.
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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 -
Shift-F is a shortcut that reveals the media in the Media tab of the Project pane and also selects the Media tab in the Inspector – you could just click on them but it saves some steps. In the Media inspector you can choose how Motion interprets the alpha channel. Try the different options.
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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 -
Did you check Motion’s interpretation of the alpha channel (Shift-F)?
Are all your images in the sequence 8-bit RGB? All the same codec, e.g. PNG or TIFF?
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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 -
Remove whatever is causing the rasterization
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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 -
If your group is being rasterized (has a square around the 3D group icon) it will be composited in layer order, not z-depth. Things that can cause this are opacity changes, blend modes, and certain filters – usually the offending parameter has a blue dot next to it in the Inspector.
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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 -
Put your logos in the same group as the text layer and scroll the group instead of the text layer.
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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