Exporting from Motion 5

when I try to export my motion project the export options are all greyed out
can someone pelase advice?

Try using the free app "Preference Manager" from Digital Rebellion (dot com) to trash Motion's pref files.

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Can't open quicktime movie that I exported from Motion 5 and can't import to FCP

Can't open quicktime movie that I exported from Motion 5 and can't import to FCP 7.
I exported (with current settings) from Motion 5 now i can't view my movie with QT Player an FCP
won't recognize it.
That's the message I get ?
I'm running Mac OSX but still on FCP 7 (upgrading to FCP X is NOT an option)
Thanks a lot for any sugestions
luxbud

Thanks TOny
i think it was just a problem during the export. i tried a second time and it just worked fine

Trouble Exporting from Motion

I've been having problems exporting my Motion Projects out of Motion. I've been working on a 30sec spot 100% animated (no 3D), the project is set for DVDCPRO HD 1080i60 and I just cant get it out properly.
Fades that worked in the project are missing in the exported file, pictures somehow become corrupted/distorted in the exported file, and I have also noticed the top bar in leopard often turns partially or completely black after export, and motion crashes soon afterwards.
When exporting from motion I notice my processors aren't being used much. I have tired dropping the motion project directly into compressor but I get even more errors and strange green distortion on the exported file.
It takes about an hour and a half to export the 30 sec spot under maximum settings, (motion blur, frame blending, and all that) and I have an ATI RadeonX1900 with 512 VRAM.
Is my computer to underpowered, or my graphics card, or both? Suggestions please?

Hope you get some better advice soon. Meantime, try to copy and then paste some layers into independent projects, render them out as self-contained movies. See what happens to them. What you want to try to do is separate out pieces you can pre-render and then bring back in as movies. This eliminates tons of layers processing and might clear up some issues. Also helps you isolate issues with possibly corrupt media.
Can't help you on the Leopard stuff. We've had dozens of Motion/leopard conflicts posted over the last several months.
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Exporting from Motion Loads Into Memory

I completed a slideshow in Motion, and am trying to export it out for a DVD.
First I tried exporting from Motion to DV NTSC format, and after watching my memory & CPU, it appears that Motion is loading the project into memory for export.
So I quit the process, quit Motion, loaded the Motion project file into compressor, and submitted a job to the Batch monitor to compress from my Motion project to DVD.
The process is taking 5 hours for a 10 minute piece. The CPU's are running at around 10% and my memory is full? I was hoping compressor would not load the project into memory and instead use the CPU to render.
I suspect my slow down is from the project paging in and out of memory to compress?
Does anyone know how to force compressor to use CPU for rendering and not load a Motion Project FIle into memory?
Thank you.

I do slideshows regularly. I render out of Motion to DV. Clean, fast, slick.
I pull that DV movie file into DVDSP (if I'm going that direction) and let the defaults to their job. Clean, fast, predictable results. Your output efficiency depends on your image sizes and effects and nesting so I carefully reduce the size of my stills, preplan nests, and prerender/reimport where possible
I don't see where you are having a problem unless you are simply misinformed. You must render out of Motion or you must render the .motn project file from within another app like FCP but it's going to be processed in exactly the same way as if you have rendered out of Motion.
You CAN set up Quemaster to run batces using all of your Mac's cores as separate rendering engines but that gains you nothing in Motion projects, usually, since you only have one graphic card. And Quemaster, despite a few success stories on that forum, remains a cruel joke.
bogiesan

Best way to export from Motion 2 into Final Cut Pro 5, working in DV?

I am working in DV in Final Cut Pro 5, and I would like to get the best quality from anything I bring in from Motion 2 into Final Cut Pro 5, I keep hearing use the Animation codec. I would like to hear from the Panel of experts.
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Sebastian

The Best way is to round-trip from FCP. Or simply import the .motn file directly into FCP. If you require an alpha channel and for some reason don't want to bring the .motn file in, Animation with millions+ for the colors (+ is the alpha channel) will work, But if you just want straight DV, you should export a DV file.
Patrick

What settings when exporting from motion?

What settings do I use when exporting scrolling credits from Motion.

Exporting to where?
If you are going back to FCP, save the Motion project and import that. It can be treated exactly the same way you would a video clip.

Export from Motion/Aspect ratio in Quicktime

I have created my first HDV (1080i60) graphic in M3. When I export as a quicktime movie, the preview that M3 generates at the end of the export looks perfect - when I open that movie in Quicktime, the whole thing is squished together. I assume this has to do with pixel aspect ratio - I just can't figure out where the fix is here because the pixel aspect is obviously set correctly in my Motion project (1.33) Is there a setting in quicktime that I am missing that is causing the playback of my Motion animation to appear squeezed?

Yeah, sorry, I should've included that the inspector in Quicktime says that both the "Normal" and "Current" sizes are 1440x1080. This is no huuuuggggeee deal, I just wanted to show some people the graphic using just quicktime. I eventually am going to import this into an FCP sequence, but I would like to have this portable version to show on quicktime.
+Quicktime maybe doesnt see this and is showing it at the correct pixel size without adjustment+
Not sure what that comment means - the correct pixel aspect is the one coming from Motion (1.33) Is there really no way to just bring this project into quicktime and play it properly - without looking squeezed? I feel like I should be able to find some preference in quicktime that lets me switch from viewing square pixels to viewing anamorphic pixels.
Thanks a bunch Adam.

Export from Motion to FCP

I am editing a few title card for a project that will eventually return to FCP. I built title cards in Motion and now I getting prepared to export. Obviously, I want the graphics & logo to look as good as possible and I wanted to know what codec to export on to best integrate to FCP?
The FCP sequence settings are 1280x720, pixel aspect ratio: Square, frame rate 59.94. Any good advice to a novice? Animation? ProRes HD?
Thanks.
best,
brighamcottam
ps. I will also be doing it for lower 3rds if that changes anything.

Patrick Sheffield wrote:
Why not just bring the Motion project (.motn file) directly into FCP?
No export necessary.
Patrick
Yar, this works if the OP's workflow is adapted to the procedures. Just personally, mine is not. Deeply rooted habits from Ye Olde After Effects: I like having the rendered movies available as media.
To the OP's other question about the codec choice, Animation vs ProRes. The only reason to use Animation is if you know why you're using it: alpha. If you need the alpha and you want to stay in ProRes territory, you must use 4444. The last of those fours represents the alpha channel.
bogiesan
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Exporting from Motion to Quicktime troubles

I have made a video montage in motion where I have several talking head clips scrolling from left to right. When I export my project to Quicktime the images are showing glitches. I exported through H.264, 24fps, 30fps, 60fps, Mpeg4 24fps, 30fpc, & 60fpc. all times with best quality selected. Any suggestions?
I am using Mac OSX G5, version 10.4.8, Processor 4/2.5 Ghz Power PCC, Memory 2GB 5DRAM, Motion 2.0.2 from FCP HD package.
Thanks in advance

Thank you very much Chris. I works perfectly! You're the best!

Exporting from Motion as MPEG 2 - won't happen - please help!

I have a 3 minute Motion sequence that I can't export in Compressor - it takes over 5 hours to get halfway through the process. It looks as though Compressor has crashed, it goes so slow.
Basically I need to make a DVD in DVDSP, urgently. I exported as an H264 Quicktime, which was a breeze, but that comes up as incompatible format when I import this asset into DVDSP.
What to do? Another CODEC? What MPEG 2 setting might work in Compressor?

Urgent?
Your workflow is way out of whack, there's no need to over-resolve your output format which is SD MPGE2. You can export out of Motion using any codec that doesn't create a file with larger specifications than are necessary, you'd just be wasting all of your time and effort.
You can be working in a Motion project that has the same frame specs as MPEG2 or just plain ol' DV.
You export out of Motion and then put that movie into Compressor to do your MPEG2 but "urgent" is the key term here. Just put the exported Motion movie into DVDSP and let DVDSP do the encode for you, saves a bit of effort, not really any time.
bogiesan

Fuzzy video upon round trip export from motion to FCP

I'm using Motion 4 to add master template lower thirds to my FCP video. When I bring a clip from final cut into motion (send to>Motion) then send it back to FCP after I add my text, the video itself looks as if it has taken on a slight blurriness. I checked that my project settings were the exact same by going to project properties in motion and making sure everything matched up with my sequence settings in fcp. They did. Am I missing a step here? I'm tempted to not roundtrip through motion because of this. Instead I'd like to just open the master template in FCP and use that. The reason I don't is because I do not have control over font color and other adjustments.
Can anyone suggest a fix or point out what I'm doing wrong?
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See if this post helps:
http://discussions.apple.com/click.jspa?searchID=-1&messageID=13075996
Patrick

Export from Motion - Soft in FCP

I created a graphic in motion, output it into fcp and the type and graphics are a bit soft.
The export was to a DVCPro DV Quicktime file.
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How do you fake a roundtrip?
I think I was talking out of my left nostril there.
What I meant was something like sending a clip on a roundtrip through motion, though you don't use the clip at all. Thus avoiding the file step.
Now I think it's a terribly ill-conceived idea.
Somebody else just posted the same problem, as far as I can tell:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=816621&tstart=0
This makes it a Real Issue.

Corruption on export from Motion? Help!!

Greetings,
I'm experiencing an odd problem.. Unpredictably, my compressor output is completely corrupt, wacky horizontal lines across the frames, etc.. I've successfully exported this project TWICE, and after making a few minor adjustments, my last two renders were both corrupt. I need this project done TODAY, and can't afford another corrupted render!
Has anyone experienced anything like this?
If there's any more information you may need to diagnose, please let me know.. i'll be monitoring the forum.
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Well, lets push this baby to the top. After doing a number of batches with different projects, I actually havent seen the final file as I'm still in the middle of the export, I want to see it in the DVDSP viewer to see if it's a corrupt file or a compression problem, but suddenly I have black horizontal lines all over my video, after which my finder crashed and it took me a while to finally get the computer to be back to normal. I really dont even know if the finder and compressor issues are related, but my finder seems fine now, yet compressor was still acting up. I will continue searching for other posts related, but since I found this one I figured I'd jump in and push it to the top see if we can get some answers

Exporting from Motion in HD

I'm looking at over one hour of exporting time on a 30 sec spot.
Do you think that seems right? I have a brand new mac pro 2x2.26 processor 6 gb ram 1066 MHz DDR3. Exporting qucktime H2.64 @ 59.94 fps.

Think about what you're saying; we have no way of knowing what your project is composed of. It could be 30 seconds of a single text layer, or 30 seconds of the most full-blown, complicated, effects-heavy 4K material of all time.

Partial Export from Motion 3

Hello,
I am un able to export one of my clips in its entirety which is 1863 frames. The export will stop at 880 frames. I am using DVCPRO 720P60 to export since this is what the footage originated in. I have about 6 layers with smoke particles through out the clip
Thank you in advance

Have you tried exporting it in sections? I've exported quite long sequences, longer than 1863 but there might be a problem with some of your media.
Maybe try a render without the particles too - something is causing it to stop.
Also I always clear the RAM cache before doing a render.
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