No color mask in motion 5?

Is it possible that there is no color mask in Motion 5?
It is present in FCPX.
I purchased Motion 5 just to create FCPX plugins. And

In the Keyer, you can go into the advanced controls and fine tune color selection more easily than any other Keyer I've worked with. They are not 15 year old plugins. They are very capable if you learn to use them correctly. I suggest the Ripple Training videos to properly learn now to use Motion. It can be a very powerful app.
I strongly suggest you start with the user manual, then do some proper training.
http://help.apple.com/motion/mac/5.0.5/#motn14b99d02
I do what I sort of think you're trying to daily without a second thought in Motion. Just take a deep breath, and take the time to learn it properly.
If you tell us what exactly the effect is you're trying to build, we can give you some guidance. This may or may not be the best strategy to achieve it.

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Hi,
1. How to find which is the dominant color in an image,which method can be used to find it ?
2. How to apply color mask to an image?
Thank you
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Hello Madhubalan,
maybe this can help you get some ideas about finding the dominant color. I am attaching a VI that uses three different methods to determine the dominant color:
1. Red or green or blue (only one of the three, no colors in between)
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If you like, you can test the code, but maybe someone with more experience than me can provide a better solution.
Anyway, I hope this helps you to proceed in the right direction. Aslo, sorry for the dirty and unoptimized code.
I do not understand what did you mean with the color mask?Could you please explain in more detail?
Best regards,
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Complicated Mask Causes Motion 3 to Slow then Crash

I have a very frustrating problem with Motion 3. I'm rotoscoping a person in a clip from FCP. Essentially, I'm making him color and the background B&W. Making the mask went fine and the first few frames keyframing were also fine. After a couple of minutes though, moving a control point became difficult. There was a noticable pause from the time when I clicked and dragged to the time when the control point actually moved. I have about 50 or so control points so the slowdown causes me to spend several minutes on each frame and since the person is moving, I have to keyframe EVERY frame over a several second clip.
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It kinda feels like the RAM on my system is just being held up until I run out and then the program crashes. Here are as many details as I can think of to offer.
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I've been making some titles and splash screens for a film I am making in Motion 3 and hit a brick wall when I started getting graphics card freezes and total system meltdowns. My MacBook has always been fine with motion and I depressingly attributed it to a bug when using extensive and complex masks (the composition contains loads of them) and multi-layered photoshop and illustrator media. I was convinced it wasn't my graphics card as everything else it does is fine. The nature of the comp meant I couldn't split the masks up and when I tried it crashed anyway.
It was then after persevering for a week that I managed to fix the problem. This might not be the case with you guys - I'm sure you have more idea than me, but I changed the project properties to an 8bit float and not a 32 bit one. I don't think I ever made a switch to 32bit and thought it was weird that it was 32bit in the Motion 3 file. After switching back to 8 the file runs really smoothly again without any problems and handles the masks as well as I was used to in Motion 2. I hope this helps anyone with the same problem in the future, I know it was a real pain dealing with the crashes and a really simple fix.

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Auto generate mask from motion?

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12padams wrote:
Yikes! That sounds complicated...
Welcome to the world of motion graphics and compositing.
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Heya,
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Depth, 3D, canvas restriction and masks -in Motion 4.

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3. Sample the color on solid1 to apply to solid2
Shouldn't these two color solids match? They don't. I get R: 205 G: 6 B: 233
I figure this must be some color match issue......solid1 is fully opaque with no strange blending modes and such. For instance this also happens if you set the background color and try to match the background color.
Motion also seems to be changing the color of bitmapped graphics I bring in as well.

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thanks

Reynolds (Mark) wrote:
mantalightroom - Color range actually makes selections based on both color AND luminosity.
a luminosity mask based on a range of colors
… doesn't really make sense. 'Luminosity' means tone, depth, lightness. 'Color' in its purest form, really means hue - take a hue/sat layer and shift the hue slider to see what this means.
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