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The camera in Motion is set up to fade objects in or out when the get to close or to far away from the camera. Select the camera and go to the camera tab. Increase the Far Plane value and that will allow objects far away to not fad out. Same concept for near objects with the Near Plane value. Hope this helps and best of luck.
Stephen Smith
Utah Video ProductionsCheck out my Motion Training DVD
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[Tim] How much time did it take you to get that good into motion?
I still learn new things all the time. I guess I’m saying I feel it is a never ending process and we always need to be learning. As for a shameless plug, I think Creative COWs Motion Training DVD called Moving with Motion will teach you everything you need to know. From there learning more advanced tricks will be easier because you have a sold understanding of Motion.
[Tim] And is / was motion your first animation programme your working with?
After Effects was my first animation program that I worked with and still do. I think Motion is a powerful program that can create some cool stuff. Check out this link to some projects created in Apples Motion.Best of luck and hope this helps.
Stephen Smith
Utah Video ProductionsCheck out my Motion Training DVD
Check out my Motion Tutorials
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anthony,
I’m not a 100% sure what to do. You said you had the files in the right place. Does the folder structure look like this?
Stephen Smith
Utah Video ProductionsCheck out my Motion Training DVD
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Tim, that is a very common mistake. Don’t feel bad at all. As for the other question. I watched a few seconds of the tutorial and it seemed to take something so simple and make it really time consuming. This is how I would do it. Add your background image. Add TV image. Draw matte on TV. Invert mask so it creates a hole in the TV. Resize and re-position the background image. Hope this helps and best of luck.
Stephen Smith
Utah Video ProductionsCheck out my Motion Training DVD
Check out my Motion Tutorials
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Here is a video that I just made to show you what I was writing. I think this will be easier.
https://reels.creativecow.net/film/group-layers
Stephen Smith
Utah Video ProductionsCheck out my Motion Training DVD
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Tim, your English is fantastic. Lets take this one issue at a time. As for the 2D group that you had a screen grab of. If you click on the triangle in the group called “Gruppe” you will see that Gruppe 2 will disappear. That is because Gruppe 2 is inside Gruppe. You need to get Gruppe 2 outside of Gruppe so the two groups are independent of each other. To do that select “Gruppe 2” and drag it below the shape called “Kopie von Dia..” You will see an icon appear that is a line and a circle. Then drag Gruppe 2 to the left. When the line with the circle moves to the left let go of the mouse and it will move the Gruppe 2 outside of the Gruppe. Let me know if this makes sense and if it worked. Then will focus on the other question.
Stephen Smith
Utah Video ProductionsCheck out my Motion Training DVD
Check out my Motion Tutorials
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1. I’m not sure how you make an image auto feel a matte. What tutorial are you talking about? Can you just resize the image so it fits?
2. For the second question you need to place that 2D background layer in its own group that is not in the 3D group. Then make the 2D background group 2D. Then the background will not move with the camera move.
Hope this helps and best of luck.
Stephen Smith
Utah Video ProductionsCheck out my Motion Training DVD
Check out my Motion Tutorials
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With Zaxwerks the 3D object will be flat. For example, if you create a sphere and the “Use 3D camera from Project” is checked or un-checked and then you rotate the Motion camera around the sphere it is as flat as the layer is.
Stephen Smith
Utah Video ProductionsCheck out my Motion Training DVD
Check out my Motion Tutorials
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Just to make sure I understand this correctly. You are working in a 720×480 project in FCP. You then created something in Motion that is 720×480. You then place the motion project file in your FCP timeline and it changes the scale of the project to something like 120% instead of what it should be which is 100%?
Stephen Smith
Utah Video ProductionsCheck out my Motion Training DVD
Check out my Motion Tutorials
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You can not import 3D objects into motion with out a 3rd party plug-in. Even with say Zaxwerks it is still not true 3D. Your 3D object will be on a single layer.
Stephen Smith
Utah Video ProductionsCheck out my Motion Training DVD
Check out my Motion Tutorials