User manual APPLE MOTION 2.1 LATE-BREAKING NEWS

[. . . ]  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. 2 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. [. . . ] For this reason, a checkbox has been added to the Project Properties dialog (choose Edit > Project Properties or press Command-J) that allows you to turn dithering on or off. This setting applies to the display and export of a project. 5 Library The Preview area does not display descriptions of built-in presets copied to the Favorites category. To add a description that appears in the Preview area of the Library, Control-click the favorite, then choose Edit Description from the shortcut menu. To achieve the optimal look for the following particle emitters, it is recommended to enable motion blur in your project:  Jelly Bands  Light Transit 1  Light Transit 2  Light Transit 3  Light Transit 4  Rain Streaks  Silly String 1  Silly String 2 To enable motion blur, do one of the following: m Choose Motion Blur from the View pop-up menu. Templates Two additional HD templates are available in a separate install from the Motion DVD. To install the additional HD templates: 1 Insert the Motion installation DVD into your computer's DVD drive. 2 Double-click the Motion HD Templates icon, then follow the onscreen instructions. Note: If you installed Motion Content to an alternate drive, the installer automatically places the HD templates in that alternate location. If you have not installed Motion Content, the HD templates are installed in the default location (/Users/Shared/Motion/). Important: It is recommended that you open Motion before you install the HD templates so that Motion can identify the location of the previously installed content. Unless you installed the Motion HD templates from the installation DVD, no pre-made high definition templates appear in the Show pop-up menu of the Template Browser, which includes the HD and Other categories. These categories are included for you to save your own high definition or custom templates. 6 Motion Known Issues This section contains information about known issues in Motion. Audio When 24-bit Integer Stereo sound compression is used to export audio, the rendered audio file plays faster than the original audio file. File formats OpenEXR files are supported only on Mac OS X 10. 4 or later. Filters  When using the Glass Distortion filter with some images, the effect of the map image disappears or shifts position when the Softness parameter is adjusted.  When a keying filter is applied to an image with a preexisting alpha channel, the original alpha channel is replaced.  When using the Defocus filter with some NVIDIA cards, performance is degraded significantly. NFS volume If you browse to an NFS network volume in the File Browser, select an object, Controlclick and choose Move to Trash, the item is deleted immediately, bypassing the Trash, and without displaying the Finder's "The item will be deleted immediately" dialog. QuickTime When importing an interlaced QuickTime movie to Motion, the fields may be lost if the Movie and Video tracks specify different sizes (for example, the Movie track is 486 and the Video track is 480). This is because QuickTime automatically resizes the file, and the fields become corrupted. For templates in which the placeholder video is already scaled, you do not need to do this. Frame rate Issue: Once a project is created, you cannot change the frame rate of that project. You may have to adjust the timing of keyframes and objects in your project to match the new frame rate. Gradient generator Issue: When the blend mode for a Gradient generator is set to anything other than Normal on computers with ATI Radeon graphics cards, performance will be degraded significantly. Workaround: Apply a gradient to a shape instead. Integration Issue: Projects created in Motion, moved to another computer, then imported into Final Cut Pro may have missing media. Workaround: Once the Motion project is moved to the other computer (and all media used in the project is available on the other computer), open and close the Motion project in Motion, then open the project in Final Cut Pro. 9 Issue: When exporting a sequence from Final Cut Pro to Motion, the audio master levels (see Tools > Audio Mixer) are not exported if you select clips in the Final Cut Pro Timeline and send the clips to Motion. Workaround: In Final Cut Pro, select the sequence in the bin, then choose File > Export > Export to Motion Project. Issue: Clips exported from the Browser in Final Cut Pro do not appear correctly in Motion. Workaround: Export the clip from the Final Cut Pro Timeline, rather than from the bin. [. . . ]  The Filters chapter is missing the description for the Matte Magic filter, located in the Matte filter subcategory in the Library.  Parameters in the Inspector: The parameters in the Inspector include Shrink and Feather.  Shrink: Sets the amount, in pixels, that the matte edge should be eroded.  Feather: Sets the amount, in pixels, that the matte edge is feathered. [. . . ]