Motion 4 and Lion

90% of my day is spent in Motion and AE.
While I'm in the transition to all AE (I learned on Motion first) I just want to make sure my past projects are still editable.
All my work for the past year has been done in Motion 4 and I plan to continue with motion till I make the full swap to AE.
I have to upgrade to Lion for office compatibility and other features that I actually want anyway....
Anyone having issues or know of something right off the bat that does not work?
Thank you!
Also.. Compressor issues? anything i need to know?
My final output is almost always ProRes HQ and web h.264

Uhmm...smoothcam and vignette are not longer in the effects. Where did they go and how can I get them back.
Just got new big tricked out tower, of course with Mountain Lion. FCP 7.0.3 seems to be working ok except for above. Motion 4.x not working either.

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"Motion and Compressor Will Not Open Because Of A Problem"?

Last week I installed FCS 3 on my iMac and everything appeared to work OK.
However, as my iMac had been cluttered with rubbish for 2 years I erased the Hard Drive and reinstalled OSX 10.6.3 together with all FCS 3.
I have only used FCP and STP since then but today I discovered that Motion and Compressor "will not open because of a problem".
Here are the reports where it appears that in both cases the "Dyld Error Message", whatever that is, reports that "Library not loaded etc. etc."
Incidentally there are mentions of 14 and 18 crashes since last reports. This is ridiculous as I have only just tried to open them 3 or 4 times in the last 5 minutes . . . . and the computer OS and apps are all freshly installed.
Process: Motion [578]
Path: /Applications/Motion.app/Contents/MacOS/Motion
Identifier: com.apple.motion
Version: ??? (???)
Build Info: Motion-6870000~22
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [98]
Date/Time: 2010-05-21 15:45:02.265 +0100
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.6.3 (10D578)
Report Version: 6
Interval Since Last Report: 148993 sec
Crashes Since Last Report: 14
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 2
Anonymous UUID: F0E0573A-9AA1-463D-95B1-A136E901F272
Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 0
Dyld Error Message:
Library not loaded: /Library/Frameworks/PluginManager.framework/Versions/B/PluginManager
Referenced from: /Applications/Motion.app/Contents/MacOS/Motion
Reason: image not found
Model: iMac8,1, BootROM IM81.00C1.B00, 2 processors, Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.8 GHz, 4 GB, SMC 1.30f1
Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro, ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro, PCIe, 256 MB
Memory Module: global_name
AirPort: spairportwireless_card_type_airportextreme (0x14E4, 0x8C), Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.10.91.27)
Bluetooth: Version 2.3.1f4, 2 service, 2 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
Network Service: AirPort, AirPort, en1
Serial ATA Device: WDC WD3200AAJS-40VWA0, 298.09 GB
Parallel ATA Device: MATSHITADVD-R UJ-875
USB Device: External HD, 0x059b (Iomega Corporation), 0x0370, 0xfa400000
USB Device: Hub, 0x04b4 (Cypress Semiconductor), 0x6560, 0xfa200000
USB Device: External HD, 0x059b (Iomega Corporation), 0x0370, 0xfa240000
USB Device: Built-in iSight, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x8502, 0xfd400000
USB Device: Keyboard Hub, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x1006, 0xfd100000
USB Device: Apple Optical USB Mouse, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x0304, 0xfd130000
USB Device: Apple Keyboard, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x0221, 0xfd120000
USB Device: IR Receiver, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x8242, 0x5d100000
USB Device: BCM2045B2, 0x0a5c (Broadcom Corp.), 0x4500, 0x1a100000
USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x820f, 0x1a110000
FireWire Device: unknown_device, Unknown
Process: Compressor [629]
Path: /Applications/Compressor.app/Contents/MacOS/Compressor
Identifier: com.apple.compressor.Compressor
Version: ??? (???)
Build Info: Compressor-3015328~22
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [98]
Date/Time: 2010-05-21 15:52:33.008 +0100
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.6.3 (10D578)
Report Version: 6
Interval Since Last Report: 149440 sec
Crashes Since Last Report: 18
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 6
Anonymous UUID: F0E0573A-9AA1-463D-95B1-A136E901F272
Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 0
Dyld Error Message:
Library not loaded: /Library/Frameworks/PluginManager.framework/Versions/B/PluginManager
Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/Compressor.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/StompTypes.frame work/Versions/A/StompTypes
Reason: image not found
Model: iMac8,1, BootROM IM81.00C1.B00, 2 processors, Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.8 GHz, 4 GB, SMC 1.30f1
Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro, ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro, PCIe, 256 MB
Memory Module: global_name
AirPort: spairportwireless_card_type_airportextreme (0x14E4, 0x8C), Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.10.91.27)
Bluetooth: Version 2.3.1f4, 2 service, 2 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
Network Service: AirPort, AirPort, en1
Serial ATA Device: WDC WD3200AAJS-40VWA0, 298.09 GB
Parallel ATA Device: MATSHITADVD-R UJ-875
USB Device: External HD, 0x059b (Iomega Corporation), 0x0370, 0xfa400000
USB Device: Hub, 0x04b4 (Cypress Semiconductor), 0x6560, 0xfa200000
USB Device: External HD, 0x059b (Iomega Corporation), 0x0370, 0xfa240000
USB Device: Built-in iSight, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x8502, 0xfd400000
USB Device: Keyboard Hub, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x1006, 0xfd100000
USB Device: Apple Optical USB Mouse, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x0304, 0xfd130000
USB Device: Apple Keyboard, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x0221, 0xfd120000
USB Device: IR Receiver, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x8242, 0x5d100000
USB Device: BCM2045B2, 0x0a5c (Broadcom Corp.), 0x4500, 0x1a100000
USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x820f, 0x1a110000
FireWire Device: unknown_device, Unknown

As I was installing Motion from a backup disk image, I thought maybe the .dmg was corrupt, so after deleting again I put the original DVD in and reinstalled.
However, it still won't open and the crash report seems a little different:-
Process: Motion [783]
Path: /Applications/Motion.app/Contents/MacOS/Motion
Identifier: com.apple.motion
Version: 4.0.0 (687)
Build Info: Motion-6870000~22
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [131]
Date/Time: 2010-05-21 17:44:14.127 +0100
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.6.3 (10D578)
Report Version: 6
Interval Since Last Report: 153737 sec
Crashes Since Last Report: 27
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 218 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 4
Anonymous UUID: F0E0573A-9AA1-463D-95B1-A136E901F272
Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 0
Dyld Error Message:
Symbol not found: __ZN14LiSimpleCamera15setDOFDepthModeEi
Referenced from: /Library/Application Support/ProApps/SharedA/Frameworks/Motion/Ozone.framework/Versions/A/Ozone
Expected in: /Library/Application Support/ProApps/SharedA/Frameworks/Lithium.framework/Versions/A/Lithium
Model: iMac8,1, BootROM IM81.00C1.B00, 2 processors, Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.8 GHz, 4 GB, SMC 1.30f1
Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro, ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro, PCIe, 256 MB
Memory Module: global_name
AirPort: spairportwireless_card_type_airportextreme (0x14E4, 0x8C), Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.10.91.27)
Bluetooth: Version 2.3.1f4, 2 service, 2 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
Network Service: AirPort, AirPort, en1
Serial ATA Device: WDC WD3200AAJS-40VWA0, 298.09 GB
Parallel ATA Device: MATSHITADVD-R UJ-875
USB Device: External HD, 0x059b (Iomega Corporation), 0x0370, 0xfa400000
USB Device: Hub, 0x04b4 (Cypress Semiconductor), 0x6560, 0xfa200000
USB Device: External HD, 0x059b (Iomega Corporation), 0x0370, 0xfa240000
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USB Device: Keyboard Hub, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x1006, 0xfd100000
USB Device: Apple Optical USB Mouse, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x0304, 0xfd130000
USB Device: Apple Keyboard, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x0221, 0xfd120000
USB Device: IR Receiver, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x8242, 0x5d100000
USB Device: BCM2045B2, 0x0a5c (Broadcom Corp.), 0x4500, 0x1a100000
USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x820f, 0x1a110000
FireWire Device: unknown_device, Unknown

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x iPhones
2 Lion clients
I want to use the Lion Server for all collaboration services, and use Profile Manager to provide central management of iOS and Lion clients, and I want to use network accounts on the server.
All is set up and working well, mail, ical, wiki, addressbook, VPN servers, profile manager settings, apart from one thing. how do I best push DNS server settings to the client to point to the server?
In the TC there are no way to set what DNS server is served to clients. That would solve my case in an instant. Now all clients get the ISPs DNS servers, or pass-through of whatever DNS server is set up on the TC.
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2. Set the DNS server on the TC to point to the local Lion Server. I actually just came up with this idéa as I was typing.... maybe that is the answer? The inernal clients get the internal server as DNS and the server uses forwarders or roothints.
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I'll try not to rant too much.
But what is up with Motion and working with DV NTSC video with fields? I have had nothing but headaches. I am a long time After Effects user, and I was glad to get Motion 2 (2.1.2), but I've just spent the last hour and half trying to get it to render DV NTSC video correctly without it getting field jitter on a project that needed to be over-nighted to go on the air. And it still doesn't look totally correct. (I'm not a happy camper)
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Now that might seem hasty to say that, but I've been doing the same thing in AE for years, never having to change the imported field order to get it to look right and I have always captured, imported, work with projects and rendered using the QT DV/DVCPRO - NTSC presets.
Can someone help me because I can not believe I've had to change so many setting to try to get video to look right from Motion while using the same settings during the entire workflow.
Thanks, and sorry for the rant.
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Hey, thanks for the replys.
[....you might want to try using the animation codec..millions of colors...]
I gave that a shot this morning, and I'm having the same problem. See what's going on now is after changing the Field Order to even for the footage media, all of it looks decent except for the ones on an angle, croped or resized and I see this in both Motion's preview and the final render when I play it back in FCP. So as per your suggestion I rendered with the animation codec (filed rendering) and it still has it. Its just odd to me that it does that, like I said before I've worked in the DV/DVCPRO - NTSC codec with FCP and AE for years with no quality degrade. The reason I have always do that is that's what I capture to and that what my FCP project is so to keep it all consistant. BTW, this is going network and cable, no different than I usually do.
[...are you enabling field rendering in the Canvas or in the export settings?]
Yes I am, sorry, I should have pointed that out. I have done combinations of different QT codecs with and without field rendering turned on to see different results. None of course resolves this issue.
Thanks
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I recently updated my computer and went with the new Quad-Core Mac. I had to reload the Final Cut Pro Studio software, and I've got a problem that is vexing me to no end.
I can import a Motion template (one that I've designed and even the Apple produced templates), but I try to view it in Viewer or when I place the Motion template on the timeline it won't work. Nothing visible on either the Viewer or the Canvas when I try to playback. I can right click and open the template in Motion and have the elements appear and work properly, but nada once it comes back into Final Cut.
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