[Toni Carey]

Hi Paul,

I just had to figure this out myself and I think I may have an option for you — at least one that is easier than uninstalling and reinstalling. According to the Apple Motion site, (under troubleshooting tips), you go to ~/Library/Preferences (where the ~ represents your home) and drag the com.apple.motion.plist into the trash. Then empty the trash and restart motion and all the original presets should be there. Supposedly this will not affect your project (but I’d be sure to go back into the preferences and be sure you’re set up for the correct format you wanted ie dvd ntsc or whatever).

Hope this helps! I literally haven’t even figured out how to do one regular thing in Motion yet but at least now the darned filters and behaviors seem to be back and I have a real browser to look at again!

Good Luck!
Best,
Toni

Toni Carey
formerly Toni @ TONICK
http://www.tonickproductions.com
2.16 GHz Intel Core Duo IMAC
w/500GB Internal HD
running MAC OS X 10.4.11
(always updated to current version)
1 LaCie 500 GB & 1 LaCie 1TB HD’s firewired to it
Running FCP Studio 2
Use Canon GL2 to shoot and digitize footage

[Toni Carey]

Hi All,

Turns out after checking out the Motion troubleshooting tips on the Apple site that I needed to trash my preferences in order to get Motion back to the original factory presents. To do this, I went to ~/Library/Preferences/ and dragged com.apple.motion.plist to the trash and emptied it. When I reopened motion, all the presets were suddenly there!

Shazam!

Just like to post if I figure something out in case someone searches with this problem later.
Best to all!
Toni

Toni Carey
formerly Toni @ TONICK
http://www.tonickproductions.com
2.16 GHz Intel Core Duo IMAC
w/500GB Internal HD
running MAC OS X 10.4.11
(always updated to current version)
1 LaCie 500 GB & 1 LaCie 1TB HD’s firewired to it
Running FCP Studio 2
Use Canon GL2 to shoot and digitize footage

[Toni Carey]

Hey Peter,

I can’t thank you enough for your help and the quick Motion lesson — I know it’s gonna save me a ton of time and head scratching! I’ll check in if I get stuck again and super thanks for the offer of additional advice if necessary!

Best to you!
Toni

Toni Carey
formerly Toni @ TONICK
http://www.tonickproductions.com
2.16 GHz Intel Core Duo IMAC
w/500GB Internal HD
running MAC OS X 10.4.11
(always updated to current version)
1 LaCie 500 GB & 1 LaCie 1TB HD’s firewired to it
Running FCP Studio 2
Use Canon GL2 to shoot and digitize footage

[Toni Carey]

Thanks Peter. I’m going to have to try Motion — man, nothing like learning a new program under a deadline eh? Super thanks for the help and suggestions! P.S. Your website is AWESOME!
Best,
Toni

Toni Carey
formerly Toni @ TONICK
http://www.tonickproductions.com
2.16 GHz Intel Core Duo IMAC
w/500GB Internal HD
running MAC OS X 10.4.11
(always updated to current version)
1 LaCie 500 GB & 1 LaCie 1TB HD’s firewired to it
Running FCP Studio 2
Use Canon GL2 to shoot and digitize footage

[Toni Carey]

Hi David, Steve & Peter,

Thanks so much for your suggestions. Unfortunately, David, I already have full checked in the render drop down but it was worth a try. Sorry Steve, I rendered the entire timeline out and it still looks really terribly wavy and unacceptable and thanks Peter so much for the info on filters in fcp, so far no progress.

I’ve been trying to post this thank you to you guys and update but there was some weirdness with the cow sign on making me give my full name but not letting me access my account to revise it to satisfy this new requirement. After a couple of unresponded to emails in the last 24 hours, I just gave up and created this new account linked to another email account I have. Just didn’t want you to think I was ungrateful for the help because I super appreciate it ☺

Tonight I resized some of the photos and pasted them into NTSC preset new photoshop files and then imported them into FCP and replaced them and rendered them on a test timeline and it’s just as bad as ever. It’s crazy! I have so done photo tributes like this tons of times (and with much worse photos) but can’t figure out why these are turning out so unacceptable.

I don’t know if this is worth mentioning but when I was rescaling the images in Photoshop (you know, highlighting the layer in the palette doing edit>transform >scale and holding down the shift key as I resized from a corner) the image made the same sort of “watery” effect as I resized it) so I’m wondering if there’s something I should do in Photoshop to minimize the detail without completely blurring the shots.

So I went back to photoshop, opened my originals and saved them using layers and actually hand cutting out the backgrounds, raising them to another layer and blurring the heck out of them (while keeping my subjects in focus), then recropping the photos, applying an ntsc filter and reimporting them. Still, bad wavy images when I move the photos.

Again, any suggestions will be super welcome and thanks again for your attempts to help me resolve this one.

Toni Carey
Aka Toni @ TONICK
http://www.tonickproductions.com

Toni Carey
formerly Toni @ TONICK
http://www.tonickproductions.com
2.16 GHz Intel Core Duo IMAC
w/500GB Internal HD
running MAC OS X 10.4.11
(always updated to current version)
1 LaCie 500 GB & 1 LaCie 1TB HD’s firewired to it
Running FCP Studio 2
Use Canon GL2 to shoot and digitize footage