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[Aindreas Gallagher] “Why don’t you sculpt a CHAIR? Maybe build a WATCH? Have you ever DELIVERED A CALF? Why aren’t you BUILDING A CAR?”
Vintage Gallagher genius – magnificent!!!!!
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Twirl open the Gradient editor and adjust the Y Start and End values to be further apart (or the X values if you are using a horizontal gradient).
The default is for the Y Start to be 100px and the Y End to be -100px which is a bit close for most purposes.
Increasing the Y start value (in a positive direction) and decreasing the Y End (in a negative direction) will stretch out the gradient.
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Sometimes the only way to do this with complete accuracy is to go into the XML and edit it that way, as explained by Alex4D in this very helpful post:
https://alex4d.wordpress.com/2011/07/29/rigging-motion-5-effects-accurate-slider-snapshot-positions/
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[Charlie Austin] “You maybe can try this…
https://store.pixelfilmstudios.com/plugin/plugin-prowall“
You might think twice about this recommendation if you were aware of this company’s allegedly less than ethical business practices:
https://www.fcp.co/forum/2-off-topic/16224-how-to-make-money-on-violating-copyrights?start=20#23947
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[Jorge Asprón] “It happens to me all the time! And it sucks since, well, it’s supposed to be a pro app, right? Living in Mexico (and applies to all Spanish and accent-language users), presenting a text without the proper grammar is like not differentiating between you’re and your -it’s just plain un professional.
Sadly, I see I’m note the only one with the issue…”
Have you tried whether this problem is still there in 10.0.8? There have been many improvements to the Title effect since the original post.
I can’t find any problems with special characters or accents now (in fact, I find it works really well), but there may be issues with particular characters that you are using.
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[Mark Suszko] “Now that I know the money is safe, I can go trash the motion prefs without worry at work, and see if the work machine gets back to functioning… are they located the same way as FCP pref files?”
Use Digital Rebellion’s Preference Manager – you can’t go wrong with that for Motion as well as everything else.
Best of luck with the project.
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Sorry for stating the obvious and I’m sure you’ve thought of trashing your Motion preference – it’s just that you didn’t mention it.
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I think there’s a fairly easy way of doing this in Motion which would mean you could see all your changes in situ and refine them if you wanted.
First of all set the Timing of your imported image sequence clip to 100% so that as you advance frame by frame you get a new image from the sequence each time. (You will change this later.)
Then turn on animation and move through your sequence adjusting the position and scale for each frame – you can easily do this is the canvas or you could use the Inspector if you prefer to work that way.
Once you’ve gone through all your shots and reframed them to your liking, got to the Keyframe Editor and make all the position keyframes visible by selecting Position from the Curve selector menu, Hit Cmd+A to select them all. Right click on any one of the control points and select Constant from the Interpolation menu. Select Scale from the Curve selector menu and repeat the process for the scale keyframes.
Now you can adjust the Timing of your clip to whatever speed you want for your slideshow.
Using the constant interpolation option means that all your reframes will snap to the start of each frame (rather than smoothly interpolating between them which wouldn’t be good). When you retime your sequence the changes will still remain in the same place because the keyframes will scale with the retiming.
You can always go back and make any refinements you need to any of the reframes – you won’t have to scale the Timing again to do so.
Hope that makes some sense – you might find it easier than going back to Aperture for this and you might benefit from being able to see what you’re doing right inside Motion.
Note that you will need to set a new keyframe for every frame for this technique to work correctly.
Simon Ubsdell
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If you make a Clone Layer of the layer or group you want to retime, you can then apply a “Set Speed” Retime Behavior to the clone and adjust to whatever you want. You’ll of course want to hide the original layer or group.
It works reasonably well.
I’m not entirely sure why you can’t apply the same behavior to the original layer or group but you can with a clone of it.
If you want to have fun you can also apply the other retiming behaviors in the same way, for example if you want to ping pong a complex animation or strobe it or whatever. And it’s also a good way to stop or pause an animation by using the Hold behavior.
Or you can use the Reverse behavior to reverse the timing of your animation – very powerful.
And you can use pretty much all of these retiming behaviors in combination with the same method.
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Here’s something that I tried that seemed to work and might be useful to you (or not!).
I grouped the action that I wanted to track and the object wanted to follow it (before doing any flopping) and then applied to Match Move behavior to the shape I wanted to move to follow the action and tracked away.
I then flopped the entire group – and both motions were flopped together as I imagine you want them. My action was originally moving right to left and with the flop it moves left to right, and my shape also moves left to right to keep up with it.
If the orientation of the shape is now wrong all you need to do is flop it the other way again – inside the group.
EDIT: What I meant to say was that to reorientate the shape to its original position you could add it to a new group inside the main one and apply the Match Move to that new group and then flop the shape layer inside the new group – if that makes any sense at all 😉
I think that works – but it might not be what you’re looking for.
Simon Ubsdell
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