Frame corruption in Motion

i am getting crazy looking frames from Motion on a short clip. see example at:
http://www.conduitville.com/motion.tiff
this is a three layer sequence with a custom (drawn in Motion) mask, a very large .tiff file (logo w transparent background), and a bloom filter.
any ideas on a solve?

Don't know what video card you're using, but is perchance, the large logo file larger than 2k wide or high? Or close, because IIRC the bloom filter greatly enlarges the size. You might try nesting the logo file in a layer, select fixed resolution, then placing the bloom filter on that layer...
Patrick

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HELP!
I'm having a problem with some sort of frame "glitch" when I export my Motion project to Quicktime.
Everything will be playing back fine & then there will be one frame that looks all whacked out.
Just for that split second.
It's in different places every time I re-export.
You can view the bad frame here: http://www.photropics.com/bad.jpg
& the good frame(right after it) here: http://www.photropics.com/good.jpg
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Same as my setup.
Very frustrated!
I'm starting to question my machine.
I'm working with a PPC G5 Dual 2 Hhz. machine with 3 gigs of RAM.
It's got the original graphics card in it, which is always a problem for me but will that affect the export quality?
I know it's not an Intel machine but it should be able to handle a 1.5 minute clip from Motion. Shouldn't it?
I'll have a new Intel machine in a few months but need some help with making this work if possible.
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Thanks for the response Adam.
I didn't mean to be so vague about the details originally.
I am exporting out of motion as a Quicktime movie to eventually be brought into DVD Studio Pro & burned onto DVD.
I tried bringing the file directly into DVDSP as a Motion project & it took 18 hours to do a build but
as a QT Movie, it only takes minutes.
If I change the animation codec, will I lose quality? I want it to be as clean as possible.
I have cleared the RAM cache & with the same result.
I might try the FCP import idea but I haven't used Compressor before. The last time worked with video & I used FCP was when it was in version 2 so I'm somewhat new. I've crashed coursed in FCP 6, LiveType, Motion & DVDSP so I just haven't gotten to Compressor yet.
Tell me though, did you look at the samples I uploaded?
Is this just a weird dropped frame or what do you think?
I also tried exporting at Half size & the glitch is still there & in the same place.
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Hi all,
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Hi all,
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Dear All,
I'm develope the tuxedo client program on solaris9 (SunOS olympus 5.9 Generic_118558-06 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-880),tuxedo 8.1 and compiled under 32bits libraries. My application is a multithread program but a few concurrent transaction. It also runs correctly but some time it crash when the service performs a tpcall function.
The information from gdb is follow:-
(gdb) bt
#0 0xff2db0f0 in enet_send () from /export/home/tux/tuxedo8.1/lib/libgpnet.so.71
#1 0xff31b500 in wscnw_msgsnd () from /export/home/tux/tuxedo8.1/lib/libwsc.so.71
#2 0xff31fc80 in wscmsgsnd () from /export/home/tux/tuxedo8.1/lib/libwsc.so.71
#3 0xff315390 in tpcallinternal () from /export/home/tux/tuxedo8.1/lib/libwsc.so.71
#4 0xff314f3c in tpcall () from /export/home/tux/tuxedo8.1/lib/libwsc.so.71
#5 0x0001fa1c in chkPPPack (strMobileNo=0xfeb7be28 "072031554", strChannel=0xfeb7bf58 "IVR",
strPromoType=0x54bd8 "N", response=0xfeb7b978 "",
error=0xfeb7b780 "Info : Connect to Tuxido id=0/10 Success") at PPChkPack.h:213
#6 0x0002cd64 in CallThread (sd=0x16bc40) at PPPromotionIVR.c:99
#7 0xff2157bc in lwpstart () from /usr/lib/lwp/libthread.so.1
#8 0xff2157bc in lwpstart () from /usr/lib/lwp/libthread.so.1
Previous frame identical to this frame (corrupt stack?)
(gdb) up
#1 0xff31b500 in wscnw_msgsnd () from /export/home/tux/tuxedo8.1/lib/libwsc.so.71
(gdb) up
#2 0xff31fc80 in wscmsgsnd () from /export/home/tux/tuxedo8.1/lib/libwsc.so.71
(gdb) up
#3 0xff315390 in tpcallinternal () from /export/home/tux/tuxedo8.1/lib/libwsc.so.71
(gdb) up
#4 0xff314f3c in tpcall () from /export/home/tux/tuxedo8.1/lib/libwsc.so.71
(gdb) up
#5 0x0001fa1c in chkPPPack (strMobileNo=0xfeb7be28 "072031554", strChannel=0xfeb7bf58 "IVR",
strPromoType=0x54bd8 "N", response=0xfeb7b978 "",
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213 if (tpcall("A_ChkPPIVRPack", (char *)callbf1, 0, (char **)&callbf1, &callbf1_len, 0L) < 0)
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$1 = (FBFR32 *) 0x173a80
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112347.olympus!PPPromotionIVR09.9971.1179.7: 04-11-2006: Tuxedo Version 8.1, 32-bit
112347.olympus!PPPromotionIVR09.9971.1179.7: LIBWSC_CAT:1037: ERROR: Network message receive failure
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Errors and crashes in multithreaded programs can be very hard to debug.
Sometimes a problem occurs every time a particular piced of code is
executed, and other times the problem is timing dependent. Sometimes the
problem is located in the module where the failure occurs, and other times
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<sitthisak C.> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
Dear All,
I'm develope the tuxedo client program on solaris9 (SunOS olympus 5.9
Generic_118558-06 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-880),tuxedo 8.1 and compiled
under 32bits libraries. My application is a multithread program but a few
concurrent transaction. It also runs correctly but some time it crash when
the service performs a tpcall function.
The information from gdb is follow:-
(gdb) bt
#0 0xff2db0f0 in enet_send () from
/export/home/tux/tuxedo8.1/lib/libgpnet.so.71
#1 0xff31b500 in wscnw_msgsnd () from
/export/home/tux/tuxedo8.1/lib/libwsc.so.71
#2 0xff31fc80 in wscmsgsnd () from
/export/home/tux/tuxedo8.1/lib/libwsc.so.71
#3 0xff315390 in tpcallinternal () from
/export/home/tux/tuxedo8.1/lib/libwsc.so.71
#4 0xff314f3c in tpcall () from
/export/home/tux/tuxedo8.1/lib/libwsc.so.71
#5 0x0001fa1c in chkPPPack (strMobileNo=0xfeb7be28 "072031554",
strChannel=0xfeb7bf58 "IVR",
strPromoType=0x54bd8 "N", response=0xfeb7b978 "",
error=0xfeb7b780 "Info : Connect to Tuxido id=0/10 Success") at
PPChkPack.h:213
#6 0x0002cd64 in CallThread (sd=0x16bc40) at PPPromotionIVR.c:99
#7 0xff2157bc in lwpstart () from /usr/lib/lwp/libthread.so.1
#8 0xff2157bc in lwpstart () from /usr/lib/lwp/libthread.so.1
Previous frame identical to this frame (corrupt stack?)
(gdb) up
#1 0xff31b500 in wscnw_msgsnd () from
/export/home/tux/tuxedo8.1/lib/libwsc.so.71
(gdb) up
#2 0xff31fc80 in wscmsgsnd () from
/export/home/tux/tuxedo8.1/lib/libwsc.so.71
(gdb) up
#3 0xff315390 in tpcallinternal () from
/export/home/tux/tuxedo8.1/lib/libwsc.so.71
(gdb) up
#4 0xff314f3c in tpcall () from
/export/home/tux/tuxedo8.1/lib/libwsc.so.71
(gdb) up
#5 0x0001fa1c in chkPPPack (strMobileNo=0xfeb7be28 "072031554",
strChannel=0xfeb7bf58 "IVR",
strPromoType=0x54bd8 "N", response=0xfeb7b978 "",
error=0xfeb7b780 "Info : Connect to Tuxido id=0/10 Success") at
PPChkPack.h:213
213 if (tpcall("A_ChkPPIVRPack", (char *)callbf1, 0, (char
**)&callbf1, &callbf1_len, 0L) < 0)
(gdb) print callbf1
$1 = (FBFR32 *) 0x173a80
and the information from ULOG file is follow:-
112347.olympus!PPPromotionIVR09.9971.1179.7: 04-11-2006: Tuxedo Version
8.1, 32-bit
112347.olympus!PPPromotionIVR09.9971.1179.7: LIBWSC_CAT:1037: ERROR:
Network message receive failure
112347.olympus!PPPromotionIVR09.9971.1179.7: LIBWSC_CAT:1013: ERROR:
tpcall() get reply failed
Note. I already set TPMULTICONTEXTS in TPINIT flag before perform a
tpinit.
Do you have any idea for solve this problem. thanks!
Sitthisak C.

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The duration of the layer for motion tween is at 100 frames in the first setting. On the Stage I can only see Anchor Points(Keyframes) on frames 5,10,15 and so on.. No issues with that. I have taken a screen shot of this and attached as Version-1
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