Motion Guild Help

I know how to create a motion guide path for a movie clip to
move along, but I'm lost. :/
I would like to know how a could make the object(s) front
face the way its going.
That way you could do something, oh, i don't know, a driving
car.
P.s( I'm using Flash 8

I don't know how much you know about motion paths, so I'll
suggest you go to Flash help (F1 in Flash) and search for "Tween
Motion along a path". After reading that, post a more specific
question.
Once you create a motion guide and the motion tween, you will
see a checkbox in the Properties Window at the bottom left that
says "Orient to path". When you click this box, your object will
follow the path and always point 'nose first' as it moves along.
Hope this helps.

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Thanks a lot Mylenium! I'll do that in a few minutes, by the way heres an update with some more information.
Photoshop crashes when I change the angle to 49 or higher, anything lower is fine.
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I just started using Motion today and am having some problems. I am trying to add an angel like halo effect over a head and am having trouble. I imported the clip I want to add the halo to into Motion via the Final Cut timeline. After it opens the clip in Motion I try to use "add behaviors" but it wont work when I click it.. I have the clip selected. I imported the clip into Motion but it's not letting me use behaviors for tracking.. It's also not letting me bring up certain windows like the Inspector. It will only show me the layers/media/audio and timeline windows. Please help. Thanks in advance.

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Welcome to the forum.
As Steve points out, setting the Edit>Preferences>Still Duration BEFORE Importing, will get what you want.
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Also, Scaling the Still Images, prior to Import is a very, very good idea, and especially so, with Stop-Motion, as you will have lots of them.
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REALLY fast stop motion..HELP!

So I am trying to make a stop motion using imovie 09 and it wont let me make the clips shorter then .1 seconds...does anybody know how I can make them shorter? I am trying to make this REALLY fast...Help!! This is for a major film project I am working on. All help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.

hjsami01 wrote:
So I am trying to make a stop motion using imovie 09 and it wont let me make the clips shorter then .1 seconds...
that's right. for smooth stop-motion, you need 1 frame per second.
you need tools as QuicktimePro vers7, which allows to convert a folder of pics into a smooth stream of video, or designated stop-motion tools as framebyframe (free) or iStopMotion ($$, therefor much more elaborated&convenient).
and Welcome, hjsami01, to the  boards ...

Motion 3 - motion tracking help

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[Light Writing|http://www.motionsmarts.com/tutorials/finger/finger.html]
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Motion 5 help, motion 5 help, motion 5 help

hello i have a question i am new to forum posting anyways i have motion 5 on my macbook pro and i need a atomstrand.hd from motion 4 is there away to get motion 4 or do i have to download atomstrand.hdas a add on if that makes any sense please help.

On your system drive, open Library > Application Support > Final Cut Studio > Motion > Templates > 3D Text Projects. You'll find Atom Strand.HD.motn in there. Right click on the file and Open With > Motion 5.0.x (makes sure you'll open in M5 and not your previous version - although M5 should be the default.)
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Motion 5 Help

Hi guys, great, I've been itching to ask a question on the apple discussion boards, finally got a chance...
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Motion tracking help

Hi all, hope everyone had a great Xmas.
I am having an issue with motion tracking and I will try my best to explain my problem as clearly as I can
Here is what I am trying to achieve.
Please visit this youtube video Canon Powershot SX30 IS -140X Moon Zoom Test - YouTube
and this is a still shot I just quickly edited in fireworks to show you the effect I am trying to achieve
http://img845.imageshack.us/img845/3148/motion.png
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twim1 wrote:
As you can see in the video, some parts of the moon go out of screen in some shots and the camera also zooms in and out of the moon, so I need the word "Business" and "logo" to increase and decrease in size in proportion with the moons size ( camera zooming in and out ) whilst remaining at the exact point on the moon ( as if the word "business" was built on the surface of the moon )
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And since he put it so well, I'd also like to quote Bogesian from a different thread, responding to someone who also knew little of AE, and wanted to learn what he or she thought would be a simple trick:
"After Effects is a kitchen. It's not a cookbook. And there is much more to using this metaphor than putting a frozen entrée into the microwave.
You have everything you need, it's just not given to you as a recipe for that specific effect.
The AE help system and the many tutorials that came with After Effects will show you how to animate text.
You will need to learn how to use motion tracking in the same way.
You may need to learn how to use the planar tracking system, Mocha, which is not for the faint of heart.
Like learning to make soufflé, you need the basic tools, fresh ideas, high quality ingredients and sufficient fundamental experience with all of the toolsm, techniques and ingredients. You will fail many times. Once you've discovered certain truths and universal, reliably repeatable steps, anything is possible within the kitchen.
Suggest you invest in ayof the many AE books by Trish and Chris Meyer or visit their website for several hours before you attempt to use the more advanced resources you can easily find online."

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the code in the actions layer. I have my MC instance named jiggle.
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Motion trail help

Hi all,
as a newbie to Motion, I decided to start out with simple animations. However I ran into this animation:
http://images.templatemonster.com/screenshots/12800/12820.swf
I really like the motion trail like effects in the movie. Anybody has any idea how this could achieved in Motion? I suppose I should start up with an emitter, but I am not sure. Could somebody help me out a bit on this??
THX,
Vision.

Heya,
You don't need the lights. You can achieve the same result as the tutorial, just draw the shapes as he did with the AE solids, create the emitter, etc, and you're good to go.
You can also do this using the replicator: create the starting shapes, draw a path for the replicator to follow, increase the number of points, make them additive, and there you have it. Basically, a blend between the additive method of the Flow tutorial and the replicator line-drawing trick.
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Motion 3 Help !!

I need your help with an upgrade decision. I upgraded last fall and currently to Finalk Cut Studio Pro. I cannot find my discs(due to a very nosy kid of mine) or the installation icon in the applications folder for motion 3 . I am uncertain whether or not I have motion 3. I do have FC 5.14, DVD Studio Pro 4, Compressor 3, Sountrack Pro 2, which all came with the upgrade package. Based on that information:
1: would you say that Motion 3 came with that package or was it just Motion?
2: If not when was motion 3 released and with what FC Package?
3: Can I get FC upgrade from 5.14v to 6 via Apple update of do I need to spend $499.00?
Thanks in advance.

1. Motion 3 ships with Final Cut Studio 2.
2. You need to send the $499.00 to upgrade.

I'm getting this choppy effect with motion, please help!

Hi all.
I'm animating photos with white borders in AE, like polaroids. It's basically a camera slow panning and tracking around them.
Each time the camera gets closer, and pans appear to be faster, I get this choppy look caused by the sharp white borders.
I have tried
- Subtle Gaussian Blue
- Enabling Motion Blur
and while they help a little, the effect is still there. Is there another technique? Someone suggested to take into PPro and apply the anti flicker effect.
Please help. Deadline today.

There are things like critical panning speeds that you must be aware of. The lower the frame rate the bigger the problem. The FAQ section of this forum has a link to two articles that may help. One is for horizontal motion the other is for vertical. FAQ: Why does horizontal motion stutter (judder) in my movies, such as during pans?
There is a lot of good information about all kinds of problems in the FAQ section. You'll find a link on the form homepage. After Effects FAQ List
You could also be experiencing skipped frames during playback. The answer to that problem is also in the FAQ: FAQ: Why is my output file huge, and why doesn't it play back smoothly in a media player?

Crash in motion , please help me

dear friends. after long time finally i join to mac users and i bought final studio also. everything work great before i install maya. it install qmaster( im not sure that i write it right or no) motion will not open , yeah it crash at open. and i dont know how to repair motion or reinstall it again.. should i uninstall it or if i choose install it has any option like windows installer as REPAIR? please help me.. i have a big project and i have to use motion in this project. please give me some advice... my email address is [email protected] and u can see my mac email also.
tnx
Pooria

this is problem detail
Process: Motion [220]
Path: /Applications/Motion.app/Contents/MacOS/Motion
Identifier: com.apple.motion
Version: ??? (???)
Build Info: Motion-2025000~2
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [75]
Date/Time: 2008-05-03 01:22:33.591 +0400
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5.2 (9C7010)
Report Version: 6
Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 0
Dyld Error Message:
Library not loaded: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Helium.framework/Frameworks/HeliumRender.fram ework/Versions/A/HeliumRender
Referenced from: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Helium.framework/Versions/A/Helium
Reason: image not found
please somebody help.
Pooria

Stop-motion problem HELP

I've been uploading pictures onto my computer and putting them onto final cut express HD to play them as a stop motion animation. The first 11 images that I uploaded and put onto final cut played well, I set the duration to play each image for one hundredth of a second each. I then took 29 more pictures and uploaded them onto final cut express, but for some reason the shortest duration that I can set these pictures to play for is five hundredths of a second. Please help!

Video isn't measured in hundredths of second. It is measured in frames per second (fps).
The notation "0:00:00;01" doesn't indicate one hundredth of sec. That is SMPTE timecode and indicates the duration is 1 frame. (Hours:Minutes:Seconds;Frames) If you are working in NTSC video, which runs at 29.97 fps, 1 frame =1/30th of sec.
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good luck,
x

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