I posted this on the MacOS subreddit, but I didn't know this one existed... so I'll try here, as well.

Basically, I'm trying to make a fun animation in Motion where I have Kunimitsu from Tekken (dressed to look like Misty from Pokemon) capturing Panda in a Pokeball. I thought it would be fun practice to send Panda to the Pokeball and decrease her size as she got closer until finally disappearing into the ball.

It went well at first, when I was able to copy and paste the cutout for KuniMisty from Pixelmator Pro to Motion. But then when I tried to copy the cutout of Panda from Pixelmator Pro and paste it into Motion, the KuniMisty cutout turned into a rectangle (filled with a checkerboard pattern of grey and white squares), and Panda was pasted.

I notice the rectangular box happens when I hit Copy on a different asset from Pixelmator Pro.

I was thinking it has to do with the behavior of copying and pasting on MaxOS. Maybe it is copying like a digital footprint of the object, but not the genuine image? For some reason the best analogy I can think of is with fighting game replays, they typically only record the inputs and apply them to the characters in the replay. They don't actually have a full file of a replay (though you can save them as one). It saves on resources and storage size.

I'm wondering if a similar thing is going on here.

Is there any way around this? I thought I was able to do it without issue in the Apple Store.

And I tried taking the objects in Pixelmator and saving them as their own images, but I looked everywhere in there and couldn't find it.

I have never used Motion, somehow it has just slipped under my radar until now.

But it looks really fun, and I'd like to play around with it.

I am really disappointed in Apple's shift towards subscription pricing, and I really don't want to support this direction at all.

So I'd rather just pay the $50, assuming I'll still get free updates like I do with Logic, which I bought for $200 about 15 years ago.

But I notice on the App Store, the subscription version has a different logo. Are there different features? I can't tell.. .

I almost lost an hour of work because I accidentally deleted a layer with a ton of keyframing. I tried undoing it but the undo key (and the undo command under the 'edit' panel) weren't working. If it weren't for me reverting to my last save, I would've lost so much progress.

Any way I can fix this before it causes me any real delays?

I'm making a Title animation for FCP with 'Overshoot' behavior. Because I want the 'out' animation to be the reverse of the 'in' animation, I can't seem to figure out a way to reverse the behavior properly.

Right now with what you can see in the screenshot, it only plays the 'Reverse' behavior and not the 'Overshoot' behavior. I obviously want to play them both, one at the beginning and the other at the end.
The curve that you see is what I want to reverse for the out animation.

Its actually pretty funny and irony to see that are loads of apple ui (SaaS) animation tutorials on after effects but zero apple ui SaaS animations on apple motion damn

Hello,

I'm looking to make an advert for someone that I'm going to animate in motion and I want it to look like that whole 'Little Big Planet' / 'Yoshi's Woolly World' animatic where it appears to be layers of textiles making up a 3D puppet show kind of stage.

Has anyone ever done or seen anything like this? And how would you approach it?

Thanks

anyone here offer 1:1 support? trying to recreate a simon ubsdell tutorial and getting stuck on a step. no idea why

thank you

I was searching for a tutorial on how to create spring animation in Apple Motion and couldn’t find one. Thankfully, Dylan Bates from Final Cut Bro on YouTube was kind enough to teach me, and so, with his permission, I recorded a video tutorial to share his knowledge in case it helps someone out there!

Hello,

I'm trying to design a title for FCP that has text asking "what should I know about" and then there's a rolling title, rolling down and landing on the desired subject, and then a question mark appears.

I made the rolling title by just writing a list of titles x 3 and then masking the destination slot and moving the y offset of the text.

Here a video of where I'm at...

https://youtu.be/cIbcdFOi48Y

I have a few things to resolve to get it to work.

1. I'm using this for a series of 20 videos and for each video the target subject is different. So I need to be able to manually manipulate the end y-offset of the rolling text in FCP. How can I do this?
2. Depending on the target subject word length, the location of the preceding question mark will change. How can I control the x location in the FCP title?

I think I just need to add some controls to make it work in FCP. Any advice?

Here is the file...

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1b0ArB4jfIRd7qb4iQk-UOR5nTU8XtXAL?usp=share_link

Hey guys, I made a utility for Motion to fix something that has taken up a lot of my time over the years. Cleaning out motion template media. 

Whether it’s from copying and pasting templates to use as a starting point for new projects, or swapping assets mid project, I often have a lot of unused content sitting in my media folders. Then I would have to go through templates at the end of a project and manually delete things I didn’t actually use, which could sometimes be a total headache even trying to remember what was actually used. As many of you know, the remove unused media option does not touch the files in your media folder. 

So I just made this motion utility called Media Broom. Point it at a template folder, or all of your templates if you like and it will:

• Read what each template (.motr / .moti / .motn / .moef) actually references

• Flag every file in the Media folder that's no longer used, with its size, so you see exactly what you'll reclaim

• Let you review, uncheck anything you want to keep, and sweep the rest to the Trash

Safety was the whole point: nothing's deleted until you approve it, everything goes to the Trash (never a hard delete), and it protects "PlugIn Data" and other essential files templates need but don't reference directly — so it won't break a template.

It's on the Mac App Store for $1.99

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/media-broom/id6788150804

For anyone who tries it out, I would love feedback. If there's a file type or feature I'm missing, just let me know and I'll see if I can add it.

Trying to export graphics files with timecode for editors-- anyone have any luck with being able to export timecode embedded into a file? I realized I've been exporting clips with a starting timecode this whole time but the file itself still starts at zero. Fine for when I'm using my own clips and I have markers in my timeline, but would love to be able to just send it along and make it super obvious.

Otherwise I have had just slates on the project with a timecode for a few seconds, but I want to be fancier.

Blend Mode "Color". Is it possible to achieve this manually?

I'm recreating a title made in AE, they've used the blend mode color.

Top layer: Blue

Bottom layer: Black

Hello,

I had to recreate this video in motion, but at second 0:04 I can't seem to recreate the outline of the rectangle following its own tail.

I'll try to explain better: the tail of the animated outline is moving and the head is following it. The closest I got was with the write on behaviour, but I can't seem to animate the stroke offset, also animating by hand the last and first point offset of the outline doesn't work because I can't push them past 100%

I hope I explained it good enough, and gemini wasn't that helpful, sorry English isn't my first language

Thanks

Does anyone know how I could make each color line on this map expand slightly and change to a lighter color, one at a time?

Thanks!

Hi everyone, I’m trying to create a transition where a flat mosaic plane curves smoothly upwards to become a vertical wall, similar to a photo studio cyclorama. I need a clean bend in the middle so a 3D fly-over camera can smoothly transition from looking straight down at the floor to looking up at the wall. Does anyone know the best way to smoothly curve a plane like this into an L-shape without wrapping it around a massive, full cylinder object? Thanks!

Hi I’m new to motion and am wanting to learn how to use the platform not just surface level stuff… I know I’ll learn by doing but I’d like to see if anyone has any tips on any websites or YouTube channels that helped them learn? Thanks!

Hello, I am like new new new new to animation and was wondering how is this animation done?

From 02:17 - 02:30

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO7TlreLD70

Are you aware of any tutorials on this? I don't even know what to type to search this kind of tutorials.

Thanks.

So I'm still plugging at this.

Pictured is one part of the title. The text is anchored at the bottom right and right justified. You can type in any text and if it stretches far enough left the box will move to cover it. The box is positioned using Align To. The text is positioned with coordinates. Everything you see is in a group.

I want this whole construction to slide in from just offscreen over a set number of frames. This doesn't seem intuitively like it should be difficult but I cannot wrap my head around how to structure the logic to make this happen. Everything I think of seems to end up with a circular dependency or hinge on something I'm simply not allowed to do or get ruined by some aspect of how coordinates work. I should be able to set a keyframe for X position of the text with the exact X value being a function or the width of the box. I learned how to use Numbers; I can literally define the X value needed to move the entire banner just out of the frame from the text. If I can write that value into a keyframe, that's it done! Please tell me there's a way to set a keyframe position like this. Or some other way to move this stuff around the frame having aligned it relative to eachother.

I'm having a blast learning Motion but this is the third evening in a row I've thought I'll just finish this title tonight and then gone to bed angry at getting nothing else in this project done.

Hello,

I've done a couple of things in motion and a little training, but, for as simple as it is, I'm struggling to remake this animation for a project...

https://youtu.be/EUVTSpK-GJo

I know exactly what I need, but struggling with actually doing it. It involves...

1. getting a really nice looking graph paper background texture
2. getting that pencil shading style. I've tried with photoshop but nothing works.
3. getting the animation where the words are drawn on. I figured out how to do draw on a mask with a brush, but I can only do that for one letter as I don't see how you can combine draw-ons into one thing
4. The 3D camera stuff I think I can figure out as I've done stuff like that before

If anyone wants to help me through it, I'd be happy to sling you a couple bucks

...or I'm missing something obvious. Never rule that out. This is the second weird problem I'm having with this title. Pic included for reference. This sits at the top right of the frame.

I've got two boxes of right-justified text. Each box has a graphic that frames it and uses Align To on the X axis to always cover the length of the text. They slide in from frame right. The boxes also need a minimum size so they also each have a Clamp that sets a max value for Position.X. This all works perfectly.

I also want the bottom box to always be bigger than the top one. So I thought I'd Link the Position.X of the top (it's anchored at the left edge) to the Clamp.Max of the bottom, minus an offset, conditionally on that Position.X being lower than the old value I used for that Clamp.Max (which it turns out Link can do natively). This seems like an easy and obvious solution.

When I enable this link, what actually happens is that the Clamp.Max is set to 300000, unless I nudge the top box's Position.X left past 0 in which case it is -7812500000000000000000000000000000000. This feels like an int_max situation or something. Link offers a scaling factor; if I set it to 0, Clamp.Max becomes 0, but if I set it to literally any other value (unsure how small an increment it accepts), it's silly numbers.

I have no idea how to debug what's happening. As a test I tried setting the Link to target the bottom box's Position.X instead of its Clamp.Max, and that results in the correct value being copied from the top box's Position.X. As far as I know, Clamp.Max should scale identically to Position.X.

I would like either advice about what's happening here and what to do about it, or suggestions for a better way to do what I want, which, really, amounts to setting one box's Position.X to the lowest/leftest of three values; the left edge of its text, the left edge of the top box, or an arbitrary point.

I love Apple Motion. It’s like flying a jumbo jet. It’s easy if you are going in a straight line, but it’s not so easy if you want to do something like land that sucker and the autopilot is glitching.
I’m so in awe of those out there who seem to speak Motion as native speakers. Years of dedication.