Robin S. kurz
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Unless the person is very easy to differentiate from the background and surroundings… as in REALLY easy… you’ll be extremely hard pressed to find an *automated* way of doing this. You’re more likely than not reduced to rotoscoping and keyframing frame by frame. Something you can in fact do extremely well with Motion and its b-spline masks.
Otherwise the only other option would be an app such as Mocha which can in fact track root splines. But again, for that to work well, your footage would have to fill several criteria. If it doesn’t, then you’re better off just rotoscoping it as described above right off the bat.
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Hitting cmd and the arrow keys in the layers tab will move a selected object. Just not in the timeline, where it will be moved along the timeline itself, yes.
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I would suspect that it has layer effects, adjustment layers or the likes. Motion doesn’t do layer effects etc.
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Yes. Installing FCP X or M5 will simply put your old apps into a new folder called Final Cut Studio. 5 isn’t compatible with 7, no. But you can run/install both on the same system. For a “Send to” from 7 you’d have to start v4 first.
Aside from that, I personally don’t know of a way to do what you describe. That is if it fact also doesn’t work in v5.
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Hate to say it, but with 7 I don’t know of a way that you describe (in terms of “all in one”). With X on the other hand, there’s already a title that does almost exactly that in the default titles library. Darg’n’drop.
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Well, for one, you’ll at minimum want to upgrade to Motion 5, seeing that Motion 4 is a mere 32bit app. So your crashes will most likely be memory related. Aside from that, I’d say you be better off trying either mObject or even Titler Pro. It should be a (comparative) cinch with either, plus the title would in fact be in 3D.
https://www.motionvfx.com/mplugs-33.html#7
https://www.newbluefx.com/tp3l/tp3 -
“In the case of XAVC, it doubles it.”
Odd that I’m not in fact seeing that here with my XAVC material, nor have I ever.
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For e.g. pulling the volume line/bar of a clip in the timeline it’s actually the CMD key for “gearing down”. Just for the record. 😉
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Okay. So only now have I gotten around to taking a good look. And I humbly admit, I was wrong with my assumption. My apologies. There is definitely something wrong going on. I have given it to “people that would know” and will let you know if I hear anything.
That said, I would personally suggest not using a PNG (rastered image) in the first place, let alone one that is so tiny. It will look crap at any setting when scaled to that degree. I made you a variation, but with a *vector* stickman. Even though it still blurs at best quality, it at least looks much better at normal quality.
https://copy.com/txVRc3lEKUb3ksQj
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To be frank, the first and ONLY thing you should do, if you actually plan on going through with this (which, IMHO, will never work) is: GET RAINING AND LEARN AT LEAST THE BASICS. Otherwise there in NO WAY you are even getting past the first hour of trying without going completely nuts and will be burning through FAR more time than you could ever need for working through some decent training. Guaranteed.
And yes, I very much second the idea of getting Mark’s training to do just that. It’s the best and actually only comprehensive Motion training I know of.
https://www.rippletraining.com/categories/apple-pro-apps-tutorials/motion-5-tutorials.html
After that, from what position you describe you are in, you may at least have a little more than a snowball’s chance.
Good luck!