Josh Bass
July 8th, 2012, 06:21 AM
And it's just one of those things you learn to live with? Or is it something I don't understand?
Specifically Motion 3 (FCS2).
I'm not that familiar with it, but I'm getting to know it, and there are some things that just behave strangely (or so it seems) and I have no idea why.
For instance -
Messing with a bezier curve I created, altering the points. The bezier handles start out where tweaking one "arm" makes the other one move in tandem. Then sometimes, they just stop doing that and each arm can be moved individually without affecting its opposite. No idea why.
Trying to use keyframes to animate this same curve, actually animating the bezier points. Works as intended, but if I try to MOVE the keyframes to change the timing, seems like it's ignoring it. Keys act as before even when moved.
-Sometimes, I swear keyframes just don't show up in the keyframe editor. The colored lines for different animated parameters will appear, but the actual key nodes themselves will not
-text will "freak out" sometimes on playback. Like if I have a single line of text, it will suddenly become two lines, with several letters forced onto a second line, but just for a moment.
Is this just part of the "charm" of the program or do all these things have real causes?
Specifically Motion 3 (FCS2).
I'm not that familiar with it, but I'm getting to know it, and there are some things that just behave strangely (or so it seems) and I have no idea why.
For instance -
Messing with a bezier curve I created, altering the points. The bezier handles start out where tweaking one "arm" makes the other one move in tandem. Then sometimes, they just stop doing that and each arm can be moved individually without affecting its opposite. No idea why.
Trying to use keyframes to animate this same curve, actually animating the bezier points. Works as intended, but if I try to MOVE the keyframes to change the timing, seems like it's ignoring it. Keys act as before even when moved.
-Sometimes, I swear keyframes just don't show up in the keyframe editor. The colored lines for different animated parameters will appear, but the actual key nodes themselves will not
-text will "freak out" sometimes on playback. Like if I have a single line of text, it will suddenly become two lines, with several letters forced onto a second line, but just for a moment.
Is this just part of the "charm" of the program or do all these things have real causes?