[Zak Peric]

Hi There,

There is a good tutorial made by Arron: I think you can use this technique to produce what you want. It is an After Effects tutorial however, it is done by using levels or curves. So you should be able to replicate this in Apple Motion with ease. Just so you know there are no Curves in Apple Motion, so use Levels.

See this: https://allbetsareoff.com/tutorials/creating-a-film-flash-effect

[Zak Peric]

Create a mask and animate it while the train is moving. No need for tracking. Easy to do.

[Zak Peric]

All you had to do is read the article I send you in the previous post.

Anyway read this

Delete user preferences

You can resolve many issues by restoring Motion back to its original settings. This will not impact your project files. To reset your Motion user preference settings to their original state, do the following:

In the Finder, go to ~/Library/Preferences—the tilde (~) represents your Home folder.
Drag the “com.apple.motion.plist” file from the Preferences folder to the Trash.

[Zak Peric]

Then try deleting the preferences of motion. Than start up Motion again and see if this fixes the problem. You are on Apple Motion 4?

See this article please:
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT1885

[Zak Peric]

You can download blender it is free. See this link: https://www.blender.org/download/get-blender/. Than you can probably apply move as a texture to a sphere. Render the movie and import it into motion.

[Zak Peric]

I am glad it worked.-)

[Zak Peric]

Hi there,
See if this helps. https://support.apple.com/kb/HT1885
If it does not than reinstall motion as it says in the article. I had a simar problem instaling motion 5 on same disk. I had to use this and reinstall my fcs studio. https://www.digitalrebellion.com/fcsremover/

[Zak Peric]

Lool that you did not lock that layer or a group. Also press f6 and see how ling is your layer maybe it is only a frame long.

[Zak Peric]

Render the title In apple motion and bring in a baked movie. Or uninstall and reinstall the font you are using and try again. For me the quickest thing to do is to bring in a title baked movie with alpha channel and composit it in FCP. I hope this helps.

[Zak Peric]

Finally it has arrived. I do not know what to think of it until I had a little play.But from what I read and seen today my opinion is as follows:

Price is very good, features not so. Sorry Apple I think you need to be doing some research with customers before you build another program. Still no support for layered Illustrator files is somewhat of a BIG MISS. I know Apple and Adobe have their problems, but not to have a support for a layered Illustrator file is in my opinion a mistake.
What happened to all the composting features from Shake, better Keyer is not enough. Rig tool seem OK, I do have to give it a go. What about stroke in 3d, really 3d. What about those people who would like to do character animation, no chance of that I take it. Oh Well, maybe with Motion 8 or 10. I bet most of my filters would be not working. (Who can afford to buy filter you already purchased for Motion 4, I am sure some will work but I bet majority will not.

I have not even mentioned the stability, I hope they did much better job with 5 than 4, as we know 4 was very unstable.

I honestly expected more, much more.-(

I would have taken all those things I mentioned above instead of a new GUI any day of the week.

No wonder people do not like to switch to Motion from After Effects.
After Effects is stable, great effects and filters, and you can do amazing things.

Apple I am loosing patience. GET IT TOGETHER.

I wonder where is all this profit going to.-)