Matt Agnello
07-03-2009, 10:04 PM
Hi all,
I'm in the middle of creating a 3D video wall effect in Motion 3 for the opening to a travel video when I hit a snag. I've been following a tutorial (http://vodpod.com/watch/1642056-video-wall-con-apple-motion) that instructs me to use a single QuickTime file of clips, each 6 seconds long, strung end to end as the source for each of the monitors on my video wall. The trick is that each monitor will offset the source file by 6 seconds, so each monitor starts at a different place in the source file and displays a different video.
I've followed the tutorial action for action up until the part where I'm supposed to tell Motion to offset the frames, but after clicking the Replicator object and looking in the Inspector under the Replicator tab, there is no "Source Frame Offset" option. In fact, none of the additional options are present at all. I've looked around to see if the tutorial is old and those options were moved, but I found another tutorial (http://www.insitewebsitedesign.com/create-a-video-wall-with-apple-motion-software) for the same thing that was posted very recently that includes the same instructions.
At this point, I'm stumped. The Motion user manual says that if I'm "using a QuickTime object as the source for a cell" I should see these options under the Replicator tab. I'm using a self-contained .mov file exported from Final Cut, dragged and dropped into the drop box that I was using to build the video wall per the tutorial's instructions, and I do not see the controls. Screenshot follows. Any help would be appreciated.
http://files.getdropbox.com/u/353654/Sourcce%20frame%20offset.png
I'm in the middle of creating a 3D video wall effect in Motion 3 for the opening to a travel video when I hit a snag. I've been following a tutorial (http://vodpod.com/watch/1642056-video-wall-con-apple-motion) that instructs me to use a single QuickTime file of clips, each 6 seconds long, strung end to end as the source for each of the monitors on my video wall. The trick is that each monitor will offset the source file by 6 seconds, so each monitor starts at a different place in the source file and displays a different video.
I've followed the tutorial action for action up until the part where I'm supposed to tell Motion to offset the frames, but after clicking the Replicator object and looking in the Inspector under the Replicator tab, there is no "Source Frame Offset" option. In fact, none of the additional options are present at all. I've looked around to see if the tutorial is old and those options were moved, but I found another tutorial (http://www.insitewebsitedesign.com/create-a-video-wall-with-apple-motion-software) for the same thing that was posted very recently that includes the same instructions.
At this point, I'm stumped. The Motion user manual says that if I'm "using a QuickTime object as the source for a cell" I should see these options under the Replicator tab. I'm using a self-contained .mov file exported from Final Cut, dragged and dropped into the drop box that I was using to build the video wall per the tutorial's instructions, and I do not see the controls. Screenshot follows. Any help would be appreciated.
http://files.getdropbox.com/u/353654/Sourcce%20frame%20offset.png