Stutter Behavior in Motion

I may be overlooking something, but I have an imported a jpg of a starburst (white over black HiCon - in Screen mode) that I simply want to flash at random intervals.
I thought "Stutter" should do it!" I applied it to the starburst....and nothing. I adjusted it...and nothing. Strobe doesn't work either.
What am I missing?
Dan

What are you missing? The manual.
Stutter
This behavior randomly inserts hold frames, of random durations, into the playback of a clip. The effect is similar to a tape that sticks during play in a videocassette recorder.
Strobe
The Strobe behavior simulates the look of a strobe light or lower frame rate video by holding a number of frames as defined by the Strobe Duration parameter over the playback of the clip. For example, when Strobe Duration is set to 10, frame 1 is held for 10 frames, frame 11 for 10 frames, frame 21 for 10 frames, and so on. The frames in between (2–10, 12–20, 22–30, and so on) do not appear.
These behaviors can only be applied to video clips. You are using a still image. You want to use one of the parameter behaviors such as Oscillate or Wriggle applied to opacity.
Wriggle
This behavior works similarly to the Randomize behavior, but with a slower effect.
Note: A Wriggle behavior applied to an Opacity parameter set to 100% does not have much effect. This is because there isn’t much room to “wriggle.” For a better result, set the Opacity to 0, or change the Apply Mode to Subtract.
Oscillate
The Oscillate behavior animates a parameter by cycling it between two different values. You can customize how wide apart the high and low values are as well as the number of oscillations per minute. The Oscillate behavior can create all kinds of cyclical effects. For example, if you apply the Oscillate behavior to the rotation property of an object, it will begin to rock back and forth. This happens because the rotation property cycles back and forth between the original rotation value plus and minus the Amplitude value that’s set in the Oscillate behavior.
bogiesan

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...other than reinstalling(ouch!) is there anything else after trashing preferences that might correct this problem? I've been experiencing this problem lately with the playback refusing to stop and jerky stuttering and jumping frames during playback with animations that aren't all that complex. Maybe object caches, files somewhere? thanks

There are just too many issues that contribute to Motion's terrible behavior, including, I do not hesitate to add, Apple's hyperbole. Motion wants to recalculate everything all the time in an effort to give you (the unubtainable illusion of) realtime interaction. So, if you make a tiny change that has recursive impacts, Motion will attempt to redraw from frame 01 and fill up the RAM with the newly calculated frames. This can take a l-o-n-g time depending on your preview and display settings and how much GPU power/VRAM you have onboard.
Restarting the application or restarting your Macintosh should purge all caches. Reinstalling Motion will solve nothing.
Look in the manual for "purge."
You might try pre-rendering layers that will not change, such as chromakey foregrounds, and disabling some filters or effects like drop shadows that you may not need to edit your gross movements and timing. Reactivate them when you're ready to get serious about the final look.
Sorry not to be able to point you to an immediate solution. We all have widely disparate GPUs and CPUs.
bogiesan

Behaviors and Motion Tracking help

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.

I have no idea why it posted my question three times... I only clicked once.

Replicator and Write on behavior in Motion 5

I have a shape (bezier or B-spline) with a write on behavior. When I use this shape as object source for replicator it ignores the write on behavior unless I make the source (the shape) visible. In Motion 4 it doesn't do this, it works as expected. Is this a bug in Motion 5 or has something changed in the way Motion 5 works?

The only thing I did having to do with sound input/midi settings was when I attached a microphone to my computer to record a voiceover in Garageband. I then used that voiceover file (after converting/sharing to iTunes) in this Motion project. However, I did that before I encountered this problem. I was able to export an audio file out of Motion that included that voiceover file, so I know everything was still fine after changing any settings for the microphone. I was very, very lucky because I was able to utilize that last audio export to finish my project. I made a bunch of changes to the images/clips (about 4 days worth), but thankfully I hadn't made any changes to the audio. Of course, there would have been some tweaks I would have liked to have been able to make to the audio, but it was fine as is. My issue going forward is that I want to do more of these projects for clients, but I would hate to run into this problem again. It just boggles my mind why it was working perfectly fine, and then it just stopped. And I learned my lesson a few years ago not to make any system or program updates while I'm working on a project. So, I hadn't made any updates to Motion or OS X. Now that the project is done, I did update my operating system (that was before I tried trashing the Motion pref file).

Adjusting behaviors in motion

I have line of text in Motion that i applied a behavior to (Elastic Zoom)
but i want it to zoom out at the end of the text sequence not start at the start of the text sequence.
How do i change the behavior parameters so that the effect is at the end of the sequence?

I'm not familiar with that behavior but can't you just drag the purple bar (that represents the behavior) in the timeline to the point in time that you want it to happen? This depends on the behavior parameters. If that doesn't work then use another behavior to manipulate the first. Motion manual pg. 394.
o| TonyTony |o

Behaviors in Motion 5 not working and missing.

I am trying to create a light streak using the bezier tool. It fail too work in the hud panel as there's no behaviors for me to choose.
in my library panel the behavior seem to be missing

Do you want a behavior, or a shape style?
Russ

Motion tracking and chroma key

I shot a webmercial and during the product demonstration (on an iphone) the screen of the application is very close to the color of the green screen. I am having a hard time keying due to the similarity in colors. I duplicated the clip and created a bezier mask around the LCD screen of the iPhone, and tried to apply the motion tracking behavior in Motion, but it's not working well. Any ideas anyone, or a better way to do this?
Thanks!

Umm, okay, it's a closeup of the iPhone, Apple will like that.
You may be approaching this all wrong or I'm still not understanding but try to think of the hand and the phone as a single object. All you need to do is not apply the greenscreen keyer to the hand-arm-phone object. You can protect that object by using a hand-drawn matte (also known as a garbage matte) but you can create a protection matte many different ways including pulling a hard luma key.
Here is one approach (if Patrick was tuned in, he'd have another, much more elegant, suggestion for you):
You have a your video as a layer, yes, you apply the green keyer to it and part of the phone screen drops out, too. That's okay, you're going to fill the phone back in with itself.
You place another copy of your video on top (or even underneath) and you draw a mask around the screen of the phone. Doesn't need to be precise. Maybe you need to keyframe the mask position a few time, maybe you can attach the mask to a tracker. But all you're doing with the mask is allowing the keyed video to show everywhere exept in the mask or, if you apply your mask to the keyed video below, you're just allowing the clseup shot to be seen through the hoel from below.
Umm, clear as mud, I know. The point I'm trying to make is the task is probably not as complex as you're thinking it is.
If you were using AE, you'd use a four corner motion tracking setup with trackers in each corner of the screen.
PS: Thank you for the kind words, mostly I ust pi$$ folks off around here.
bogiesan

Motion path on rotated ellipse?

Hi, I'm an experienced animator (with Flash) but relative newbie to Motion, and so finding some things very frustrating but also empowering. I've got a series of ellipses kind of like an atomic symbol which I'm trying to rotate small objects (spheres) around in 2D - pretty basic - just three orbits. At first I tried drawing a path and then attaching to the sphere graphic (as in Flash) but then found Add Behaviour > Basic Motion > Motion path which was actually much easier and powerful than Flash. But now I have an 'angled' ellipse (45 degrees) but I can find no way to rotate the motion path to match the angle. I can adjust each of the circular path's axis, but no way to rotate about a central point. All I want is an angled elliptical path! Is there any easy (or difficult) way to do this? Thanks for any help.
Chris

You're going to love how easy this is:
Add Behavior/Basic Motion/Motion Path to your sphere. In the behaviors tab, change the path shape to Geometry. Drag the elipse layer into the Shape Source well and make sure the Attach to Shape button is checked.
Now the sphere will follow around the elipse no matter how it's positioned. And if you change the shape of the elipse, it'll update in the motion of the sphere.
Also, in the behavior you'll see areas to change the interpolation of the motion, as well as a Looping parameter for multiple orbits.
Hope this helps.
Andy

Motion Assistant

Hi,
What is the defined behavior for Motion Assistant API contour mode
(NIMASetMoveParams) when it receives duplicated XY points?
For example, if I pass coordinates that define a square
0,0
10,0
10,10
0,10
0,0
this isn’t result in square because of the cubic spline. To force a discontinuity
(C2 and C1) I can replicate two times each point. For example:
0,0
10,0
10,0
10,0
10,10
10,10
10,10
This is valid in spline theory. What the API will do in this case?
Thanks.

Hi David,
I tried to feed Motion Assistant with replicated data. Neither Motion Assistant
application nor the API generates any kind of error. Based on the resulting
shape (not a square, but something that resembles a drop) I think that the
redundant data is being ignored.
You said
that after the acceleration, M.A. will keep the velocity constant. This is not
always the case as I discussed in e-mail support “(Reference#7107453) Motion
Assistant contouring behavior”. There are situations that the algorithm of the
contour mode (or smart contouring feature) implemented in M.A. changes the
velocity during the motion.
Another different
behavior is the M.A contour mode and the contour mode implemented in the PCI
7344 is that the board doesn’t ignore redundant data as is stated by S. Arves
S. in my post http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=240&message.id=3443#M3443
It will be
very helpful a detailed specification about the rules for the smart contouring implemented
in M.A. and the contoured mode implemented in PCI 7344. I’m sure that this will
help everyone do a better use of these products.
Thanks.

Set Speed behavior question

I don't gedit... I've applied 2 Set Speed Behaviours of 50% to a clip: the 1st one to the first 18 frames and the 2nd one to the last 15 frames. The clip's original duration of 00:00:05:21 is unchanged after applying the set speed behaviours. I was expecting that the duration would increase by 33 frames (18 + 15). I have not used ease in or ease out (they are set to 0). I have not blended the frames or used Optical Flow. When I scrub through the clip frame by frame, I can see that Set Speed has duplicated each frame, which is what I expected. But if it's doubled the frames and not increased the overall duration, surely something must have been dropped? The clip ends at the same place.
The clip's original frame rate is 25fps and the format is HD Blackmagic 10 Bit, 1920 x 1080, progressive
Can anyone explain why there is no frame rate change please. I've spent a couple of days searching to try to find a discussion on the Set Speed behavior in Motion 3 but haven't found anything that goes into the frame rate implications.

Good question as I originally imported the clip as project to ensure I had the right settings. This did create a project duration of 00:00:05:21, so I changed it in the Project Properties dialogue to 00:00:10:00. I then applied the 2 Set Speed behaviours and RAM previewed all. After frame 00:00:05:21 the remaining frames are black - ie the clip still ends at 00:00:05:21 even though the project's duration is 00:00:10:00.

What file type needed to add behavior?

I have a logo created in Photoshop (I have the illustrator file as well), and I'm trying to animate it in Motion. However, when I add a behavior to the PSD file, nothing happens. What file types can be animated using behaviors in Motion?
Katie
PS-I know I could animate it using keyframes, but I'm looking to use the behaviors.

Euro spelling. It's the only thing people find interesting about Canadians.
No reason you can't put a Spin on a psd. Make sure you've assigned a spin rate to it. Look in the Inspector, click the BehavioUrs tab, and dial in a spin rate. See if that works. For Wriggle, make sure you apply to Properties (X,Y,Z, or combo of).

Easing Behaviors

I'm looking at the spin behavior right now and I want to stop the rotation at a certain point. If you just trim the out point of the behavior it stops but it has a constant rate up to the out point. Is there a way to ease into this stop point while still using the behavior? I can convert to keyframes then set the last keyframe to ease in but can I do it with the behavior.
TonyTony

[That did have some nice floating qualities to it but not really enough control.]
Try increasing the Amount in the Inspector more than the defaults. That should make it stop pretty quickly after the behavior starts. You'll have to trim the beginning of the behavior to when you want it to start slowing down.
If there's even more specific control you need, use keyframes for this. Either add them directly or convert the behaviors to keyframes and adjust accordingly.
[So am I right in assuming there is no easing of behaviors?]
Not really - there's no single rule like that to describe every single behavior in Motion. Depends on what the behavior does. Some have ease controls, some don't need them since the behavior has inherent ease, and some don't. For others you can use drag or rotational drag behaviors to control how the animation happens.
In any case, if you want something to rotate and slow down in a very specific way, there's no rule against using keyframes. Motion has both behaviors and keyframes when one is better than the other and vice-versa.

Motion- Exporting with Compressor

I'm new to Final Cut Studio, and I tried to export a movie the other day, I did it with Compressor, and in the final version, I saw that in random places, it dropped a lot of my effects. Is there a reason that this happened? It was fine when i viewed it it Compressor.

The answer is Compressor and Motion are both buggy software applications and have been since day one so instead of using the features the applications supposedly feature, we have learned to not use certain features for fear of the ceiling falling in on us in the middle of a project.
For example, some people will tell you not to do audio in Motion, even though it has some great audio features, because of bugs with audio. They'll tell you to use Final Cut Pro for your audio (and ignore those nifty audio behaviors in Motion).
If you are rendering Motion projects in Compressor, realize that it's still using the GPU and video memory on your video card. So if it's rendering and you are in Motion doing other project work, or in another application that uses the GPU, this issue you are having might be because you are spiking the GPU's capability or RAM at that spot so it drops the frames in Compressor. Just a guess. We don't know. Good luck.

Dissolves with Motion'd Stills

I'm having trouble getting cross dissolves to work when I try to use them between clips that come back in from Motion, ie 2 second stills with New Camera>Behavior>Basic Motion>Move applied. Just can't seem to figure it out. I'm using a freshly installed Studio 2, an upgrade from 1.
Thanks!

It works, looks nice, but seems not the proper way to do it in the New Age.
The reasons I use handles on the .motn:
1. Give me some room to change my mind later. I need more time for movement? I need more time for an effect to resolve? I just open in editor and make some changes.
2. Allow the thing to be slipped within FCP.
I almost always use separate stacked tracks with this kind of assembly. But not because it's the olden way of doing things. It offers the most flexibility and, sad to say, whoever I'm usually editing with simply cannot grasp the paradigm of the interface where overlapped clips are on the same track.
bogiesan

What is best program for creating motion on stills?

I have to create a still sequence with motion within one of my projects. I've been using FCP but it's a cumbersome process and as many have pointed out, the results are less than satisfactory. Some posts have mentioned using Motion and others Adobe After Effects. Which is better and what's the learning curve (assuming one is already familiar with plotting motion in FCP)?

You might also just play with motion favorites and/or paste attributes from within Final Cut (that's how I'd do it).
Create several different moves and then copy those to multiple clips.
You may have to tweak your keyframes a little depending on picture size/shape.
There's just not an easy way to make each still do exactly what you want.
Using the automation tools FCP provides should get you in the ballpark quickly, but then fine tuning is just time consuming.
Behaviors in Motion would be easier than AE, more specifically grow shrink, and throw. The main obstacle you'll run into in Motion is transitioning between the stills is limited.
You might also look at iMovie. They have a Ken Burns filter you can apply to everything.
You give up some control over exactly what you want the still to do - but it's quick.

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