Mark Spencer
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You do the same thing you would do with the mouse, it’s just tougher because you have to hold the cursor completely still for the contextual menu to appear.
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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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Outputting with current project settings will create a file with the Animation codec that is not designed to be played back. If you are outputting for your final destination, you should output to that codec – e.g., if you are going to the web, output to h264 with one of the web presets. If you are going to Final Cut Pro, you could drop the file you made into FCP and then render it to your sequence codec and it should play fine.
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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 is rendering Motion projects in your fcp timeline not working for you? And why are you working with NTSC-DV?
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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 embed the Motion project in FCP? If so, did you render it? If so, what is your sequence codec?
If you exported from Motion, what settings did you use and what are your FCP sequence settings?
Impossible to answer your question without this info.
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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 -
Thanks for taking the time to post back your solution – it’s always helpful for someone….
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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 you don’t want to embed the Motion project file in FCP and you want an alpha channel, then export from Motion as ProRes 4444, which supports an alpha.
When you save your Motion project, you have the option to collect all the assets to a specific folder.
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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 -
Set a play range and export just the play range.
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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 -
As Andy said, use an image mask. Apply the image mask (Object > Add Image Mask) to your video (the woman) then drag the matte to the well in the HUD and make sure it’s set to Luma, not Alpha.
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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 -
Email me directly markspencer — at —— mac ——dot.com
and I’ll send you a text edit template to examine
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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 -
No reason you couldn’t do this in Motion – just add shape or generator as a ground plane, set it to receive shadows only, add a light and tell it to cast shadows.
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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