Motion 5 - I have 12gb of ram so why are you so slow?

Been using motion 4 a ton at the office and it has been slowing down my computer to a crawl and I am not sure why:
1. I have a pretty new mac with 12gb of RAM
2. Even though I constantly need to jump into Bridge and Photoshop, I bite the bullet and shut them down to appease the computer gods. Still no luck.
Here are my other stats:
OS X: Version 10.8.2
Proc: 3.4 GHz i7
Mem: 12 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Yeah, so should I be looking into nuclear power supply to get this program running correctly or ***?

It could be your second display.
I did a test and added 5 particles playing at the same time. With three displays on and with only the iMac display on. No slow down... I put another 5 particles.... Slow down but not much.
I distributed all 10 particles throughout the timeline, no slow down with one display or three displays.
You have to remember when you add more (for example particles). You will always have a slowdown. Motion is like Flash. Motion has to display objects on the screen at retime, on the fly. For a particles it has to compute the object on the fly. (Flash has to do this inside a browser.)
One last thing... make sure you have fixed resolution turn on for each layer group. This will make sure That each image... video... object and particle doesn't display beyond the bounding video box within Motion. If not set Motion still has to computer for these objects beyond the video bounding box.
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2 - How do I check how many battery cycles are left?
There's no limit on the number of battery cycles, it's just that the more cycles you've used the more "worn out" your battery gets. You've got a 4-year-old machine, and if it's still got the original battery, it's probably about time for a replacement battery. You can check battery health using System Profiler... look at the Power section under Hardware.
3 - I want to upgrade to Microsoft Office '11 because I don't have Adobe Acrobat to creat pdf's and I need to be able to do this for school... Instead of buying acrobat, I figured I would just upgrade to Office '11
You don't need Office 2011 to create PDFs. Any application capable of printing can create PDFs on a Mac. Just choose File -> Print, but instead of clicking the Print button in the print dialog, click the PDF button and choose Save As PDF in the menu that appears.
4 - Does Apple still make batteries for this computer (from '07)? How much do they cost?
5 - How much does 1 more GB of memory cost?
I'll "ditto" sig's answers to these.
AND lastly -- is it even worth it to spend the $ on more RAM, a new battery and Office '11?
Or does it make more sense to just get a new computer entirely? (trying to avoid this).
If Office 2004 is still working fine for you, stick with that and don't incur the costs of Office 2011. As to the RAM, only add more if the test I mentioned above indicates that you need it. If you buy more RAM when you don't really need it, you won't see much (if any) performance improvement. That just leaves the battery... and if the machine is still doing what you need it to do and you don't really need a new machine for anything, you could definitely buy a new battery and get a few more years out of it.

How Can I Tell if I Have a Bad RAM Terminal?

A few weeks ago, my MacBook Pro started freezing several times a day, and it was to the point where I couldn't use it for even 10 minutes. It would also beep three times most of the time that it froze. So I turned it off for like 3 weeks and then took it in to the Genius Bar.
He ran some tests and said it was a RAM issue and I could buy new RAM chips (or whatever) and so I did, and when I installed two of them, my computer wouldn't start. I thought maybe the MHz was too big. I took one out, and the computer worked fine. For thirty minutes. Then BEEEEP beeeeeep BEEEEEP
I removed the one RAM and reseated it in the other terminal, and my computer has been working fine for most of the morning. I am running Chrome and playing youtube, Facebook, uploading pictures, and using iPhoto.
My MacBookPro came with 2 2GB RAMs (1333 MHz). The new RAMs are 2 4GB DDR3 OC3-10666 and compatible with 1333MHz and 1066MHz, according to the package.
The closest Apple store to me is more than an hour drive, and I'm wondering if there are any tests I can do at home. To me, an inexperienced computer repairwoman, it looks like I have a bad RAM terminal. Tonight I will reseat the RAM in the first terminal I tried, and see if it freezes and beeps again. It's possible that it was just seated incorrectly, perhaps?
Please send any and all advice, thoughts, questions, etc. Thank you!

As John Galt says, not all RAM is created equal. Crucial.com or MacSales.com (OWC) are well respected Mac RAM vendors.
Rember
<https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/15837/rember/>
is a wrapper around memtest.
Note: If you Mac refuses to run the app, you can force it by doing Control-Click -> Open, and then agreeing to the dialog box. Rember is an unsigned app, which is why the Mac may complain. The Control-Click -> Open trick is a way to force the Mac to run the unsigned app.
If you are having problems betting into a full Mac OS X GUI, then you might want to get memtest which can be run from the command line in Single-User mode (boot holding Command-S). If you have installed 'Rember' you can find a copy of 'memtest' buried inside
./Rember.app/Contents/Resources/memtest all
the ./ means you have to figure out the front part of the directory path to Rember.app where ever you stored it.
Here are some additional web sites, but keep in mind that 'Rember' is a wrapper for 'memtest' so when those sites discuss 'memtest', 'Rember' is essentially the same thing.
<http://guides.macrumors.com/Testing_RAM>
<http://osxdaily.com/2011/05/03/memtest-mac-ram-test/>
<http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1509>
<http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11342>

I am trying to use motion tracking to have text follow a section of the background.The text box follows the motion path, but the text just sits there. What am I doing wrong?

I am trying to use motion tracking to have text follow a section of the background.The text box follows the motion path, but the text just sits there. What am I doing wrong?

Motion basically looks at the the source footage and it's timing (in the timing section of the Inspector) when analyzing for tracking. Filters are basically ignored by the tracker. Retiming actions, like time re-mapping, or retiming behaviors that are applied before the tracker should be used by the tracker. Did you change the timing after doing the tracking? If so this would also require you to re-track the shot. Understanding that you found a workaround, describing the effects you applied would help to explain why you ran into problems.
Cheers!

I have a Macbook Pro june 2011... I have 8GB ram but I only have 256mb VRAM... I've read some other questions about this and I realized... Why do I not have 560mb of VRAM since I have 8GB of RAM? Is there any way to get more VRAM to play games on steam?

I have a Macbook Pro june 2011... I have 8GB ram but I only have 256mb VRAM...
I've read some other questions about this and I realized... Why do I not have 560mb of VRAM since I have 8GB of RAM?
Is there any way to get more VRAM to play games on steam?
I've learned by reading other topics that I can't upgrade my graphics card on my Macbook Pro because it's soldered into the motherboard or somthing like that, but please tell me if there is any way to get more video ram by chaning some setting or upgrading something else. I'd also like to know why I only have 256MB of VRAM when I have 8GB of RAM, since I have 8GB of RAM I thought I was supposed to have 560mb of VRAM...
So the two questions are...
Is there any way to upgrade my VRAM, so that I can play games on steam?
Why do I only have 256MB VRAM when I have 8GB total RAM?
Other Info:
I have a quad core i7 Processor.
My graphcics card is the AMD Radeon HD 6490M.
I am also trying to play games on my BOOTCAMPed side of my mac, or my Windows 7 Professional side.
THANK YOU SO MUCH IF YOU CAN REPLY,
Dylan

The only two items that a user can change on a MBP are the RAM and HDD (Retinas not included). You have what the unit came with and the only way you will be able to change that is to purchase a MBP with superior graphics
If you are very much into gaming, the I suggest A PC. They are far superior for that type of application to a MBP.
Ciao.

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