Apple MOTION 2.1 Late-Breaking News

Late-Breaking News About Motion 2

This document provides updated information about Motion 2 and covers these topics:

Late-Breaking News About Motion 2.1.2 (p. 2)

Previous Release Information About Motion 2.1.1 (p. 3)

Previous Release Information About Motion 2.1 (p. 3)

Previous Release Information About Motion 2.0 and Motion 2.0.1 (p. 4)

Motion Known Issues (p. 7)

Motion Known Issues with Workarounds (p. 8)

Corrections to Motion Documentation (p. 12)

This document may be updated as versions of Motion are released or new information becomes available. You can check for updated information by choosing Help > Late-Breaking News when Motion is open.

For the latest information about product updates, tips and techniques, and qualified third-party devices, visit the Motion website at http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/

motion and the Motion support site at http://www.apple.com/support/motion.

Late-Breaking News About Motion 2.1.2

The following known issues have been fixed in Motion 2.1.2.

Filters

Motion 2.1.2 provides improved compatibility with third-party After Effects filters on PowerPC-based Macintosh computers.

Motion 2.1.2 resolves visual differences between Motion 2.1 and Motion 2.0.1 when using certain blur, color correction, distortion, glow, stylize, and tiling filters.

Motion 2.1.2 resolves visual differences between Motion 2.1 and Motion 2.0.1 when using certain generators, including Checkerboard and Star.

Motion 2.1.2 fixes an incorrect value for the Glass Distortion filter’s default Softness parameter. ( The correct value of 5.00 has been restored.)

Motion 2.1.2 resolves an issue that caused the MinMax filter, when applied to large images, to corrupt the resulting output image.

Motion 2.1.2 fixes an incorrect minimum value for the Bulge filter’s Scale parameter. (The correct minimum value of –10 has been restored.)

Motion 2.1.2 fixes an issue that caused Motion to stop responding when simultaneously playing back a project containing a text object with an applied Circle Blur filter and previewing the Texture Screen filter or Glass Distortion filter in the Utility window.

Motion 2.1.2 resolves an interface issue that prevented adjustment of the Angle parameter for all Image Unit filters and for certain Motion filters.

Motion 2.1.2 fixes an issue that caused certain Motion filters to clamp RGB values greater than 1 when rendering in float.

Library

Motion 2.1.2 resolves an issue that caused Motion to stop responding when a user’s system contains a volume for which the user has no Read permissions.

Timeline

Motion 2.1.2 fixes an issue that caused Motion to stop responding when the Caustics generator is added to the Timeline while the Timeline is displayed.

Soundtrack Pro Integration

Motion 2.1.2 resolves an issue that sometimes caused Motion to stop responding when the user modifies an audio file in Soundtrack Pro, saves the file, then quickly switches back and forth between Motion and Soundtrack Pro.

Intel-based Macintosh computers

Motion 2.1.2 resolves an issue that caused Adobe Photoshop files to lose their blend modes settings when imported into Motion as separate layers.

Motion 2.1.2 fixes an issue that caused the Glow filter to turn an image white when the Softness parameter is set to 0.00.

Motion 2.1.2 fixes an issue that resulted in a visual difference between the Slit Tunnel filter’s appearance on Intel-based Macintosh computers and its appearance on PowerPC-based Macintosh computers.

Previous Release Information About Motion 2.1.1

This version of Motion addresses instability and image-processing errors with Motion 2.1 on Mac OS X v10.4.6 or later.

Previous Release Information About Motion 2.1

The following information was included with Motion 2.1, the universal binary release of Motion 2.0.1.

General Information

Motion 2.1 is designed to run natively on both PowerPC-based and Intel-based Macintosh-based computers. Motion 2.1 functionality is identical to that of Motion 2.0.1.

Projects created in Motion 2.1 cannot be opened in previous versions of Motion (Motion 1.0 through Motion 2.0.1). Therefore, please note that templates created or modified and then saved in Motion 2.1 cannot be opened in previous versions of Motion.

Note:

Projects created in previous versions of Motion can be opened in Motion 2.1.

Motion supports two plug-in interfaces: FxPlug and third-party After Effects. Third-party After Effects filters do not function in Motion on Intel-based Macintosh systems. FxPlug filters must be universal binary versions to work on Intel-based Macintosh systems.

Note:

Please contact plug-in vendors directly for information on the availability of

universal binary versions.

Previous Release Information About Motion 2.0 and Motion 2.0.1

The following information was included with Motion 2.0 and Motion 2.0.1.

General Information

This section contains information about general Motion usage.

Audio

If an audio track’s In and Out points have been modified in Motion, and the track is sent to Soundtrack Pro, markers are created in Soundtrack Pro that represent the In and Out points set in Motion.

Adobe After Effects integration

You can import a Motion project directly into an After Effects project, preserving its quality without intermediate rendering of QuickTime movies or image sequences. Because After Effects interprets the Motion project as a movie, any operation that can be applied to a QuickTime movie can be applied to a Motion project.

Once a Motion project is opened in After Effects, you can invoke the Edit Original command from the After Effects timeline to launch Motion and modify a project in Motion. Once the project is modified and saved in Motion, it is automatically updated in After Effects.

Opening Motion projects in After Effects is certified only for After Effects 6.5, and has not been tested with other versions of After Effects. Motion must be installed on the same computer in order to view, edit, and render Motion projects from After Effects.

To use a Motion project in After Effects:

In After Effects, choose File > Import > File.

In the Import File dialog, choose All Files from the Enable pop-up menu.

Click to select the Motion project you want to import.

Choose QuickTime Movie from the Format pop-up menu.

Important:

to import correctly (or at all).

Click Open.

After Effects should display the Interpret Footage dialog.

In this dialog, turn on Premultiplied - Matted With Color.

All Motion projects, regardless of the background color in the project, use black as the premultiplied color. If this is not already set, click the color well next to the Premultiplied option (in After Effects) to change the color to black.

Note:

Steps 1 through 4 must be completed correctly in order for Motion projects

You can also click the Guess button in the Interpret Footage dialog (in After Effects).

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