Zach Shore
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You can use text on a path to do this.
Start with your globe in a 3D group. Create your text, then in the Layout Controls change the layout method to Path, this will enable the path options. Change the shape to Circle. Go to the format tab and in the advanced formatting open the rotation parameter. Rotate the text -90°. Finally rotate the text layer +90°. You now have text on a circle path that you can orbit around things. Position the layer where you need. You can change the size of the orbit to “fit” your globe by increasing the radius in the Text:Path Options. To animate the text on the path you can animate the path offset in the path options.
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What’s your background image? That covers your entire canvas view and if that doesn’t have transparency your export isn’t going to have any transparency with the way this is built.
I tried with your project and as soon as I disabled the Bottom Group with the Background copy layer and then exported to ProREs 4×4 it worked.
As a tip you can alway check your projects alpha by typing shift-A. When I tried with the place holders, the whole canvas alpha was white.
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I don’t see the link to the tutorial, but speaking of link, how about the Link behavior?
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Thanks for the correction/clarification Mark!
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“In addition, I thought I had inherited a bad file when I got a project from another editor and I had the file icon show the warning that media was missing. Now, on a totally new project for myself, I STILL get the media missing Motion icon in the Finder on saving the file with just the first piece of video (ProRes 422). There’s NO missing media!”
Sounds like this: https://support.apple.com/kb/TS3819
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As far as I know, Motion doesn’t support Illustrator files. Illustrator isn’t on the list of supported formats in the docs, but pdf is. I’ve always just use pdf.
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I believe that PFHoe has an export to Motion. You then create an Generator that uses the result.
https://www.pfhoe.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=74
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Hey Martijn,
Sorry, it took so long but I finally got around to looking at this one today. I was able to get your problem graphics working by saving them as pdf.
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No need to apologize for asking questions, that’s why there’s a forum. 🙂
What you are seeing is how the behavior works. Some of the behaviors in Motion need to extend to the end of the clip, otherwise the layer will return to it’s previous state when the behavior ends. Grow shrink is one of these behaviors. I can’t remember all of them that do this, but a good indicator is that it has an end offset behavior. End Offset works like a hold or stop for the behavior.
For example say you want to grow a clip, have it hold for a short period of time and then shrink back down, you can set it up like this.
-Apply a grow shrink behavior, Trim the in point to when you want it to start and then let leave the end of the behavior at the end of the layer.
-In the behavior increase the End Offset value to change when the grow stops.
– Apply another instance of the behavior. Again, trim the In point to when you want the shrink to begin. Leave the end of the behavior at the end of the layer.
-If you want it to hold, adjust the end offset for the second instance of the behavior.One final tip, as you are getting used to working with behaviors, and while you set this one up, have the Keyframe editor open and the layer selected while working. Make sure it is set to Animated for the display. This way you will see the animation graph that the behavior is creating. It is really useful for understanding what your behavior is doing as well as for getting an idea of how behaviors combine.
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2 possibilities:
-You collapsed the layer in the timeline. In the timeline, look at layer that has the behavior applied and make sure the disclosure triangle to the left of the name is pointed down.
-you turned off visibility for the behaviors in the timeline. To the left of the word timeline are 3 buttons. Make sure they are all blue.
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