Apple Motion 1.0.1: Late-Breaking News - Manual (Page 8)

8 Late-Breaking News
Workaround : Use the QuickTime Export command instead.
Replacing footage
When you replace a clip by dragging another clip on top of it, if the substituted clip is
of shorter duration, Motion still indicates the duration of the longer clip.
Workaround : When replacing footage in this manner, the duration can be corrected in
the Timeline. Drag the right edge of the clip’s bar to the left until it is within the clip’s
actual duration, then back out to the right, and you cannot expand it beyond its actual
duration.
Shapes
Resizing a shape with applied Simulation behaviors may cause the animation to appear
jittery.
Workaround : Do not resize shapes after applying Simulation behaviors.
Text
• If the characters in a text object have a mix of styles, and all characters of a particular
style are selected and edited, and if those characters (selected and edited) are
adjacent to other text styles, the adjacent text styles may replace the selected style.
Workaround : Instead of selecting and replacing text, edit the text within the style,
then delete extraneous characters when finished editing.
• A text object already under the influence of a Sequence behavior may not complete
its action if a Simulation, Throw, or Spin behavior is applied to the same object
overlapping in time. Some sequence behaviors that do not affect the same
parameters as a simulation (such as position) may display properly.
Workaround : Adjust the behavior so that it does not overlap the Sequence behavior
in time.
Third Party Plug-ins
Motion may stop responding if the After Effects plug-ins About box is displayed while a
project is played back.
Workaround : Stop playback before displaying the About box for After Effects plug-ins.
Tracking behavior
When the Tracking behavior is applied to a text object with the following
characteristics, some stutter may occur:
• Alignment is set to Right or Center.
• The font size is growing or shrinking over time.
Workaround : Use the Grow/Shrink behavior, rather than animating the font size, to
change the size of the font over time.