Text tracking jumpy with centered text alignment?

Fixed resolution group does not make any difference.

In my current file, I have a layer with an image and some text centered below it with the effect in question applied.

I've also tested it all alone in a file, same thing, (in Motion 4) but the effect with text Left justified is smooth as expected...

maybe if I could figure out how to hack this so the left justified text also moves enough to the left to stay centered... I'm just mad that I even have to think about such hacks to get something that seems like it should still work clean, since it did in v2 on the same hardware and OS version.... only thing I changed on this system was to install v4 and the Patch in software update...

the problem happens when the test is center justified, it does not happen with Left or Right justified. I want it centered yes, but can't accept how bad it looks. I'm going to try to post a sample movie example of the issue.

links to the project and a sample render from it.

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/2219184/SampleCrop-H.264800Kbps.mov

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/2219184/sample.motn

it would seem the compression process and playback in a web browser dulls the effect of the jumps in my sample. download the movie clip to see it better. I don't know exactly why that is... odd. maybe it's being scaled a bit or something.

Yes.

I haven't tried it yet, but I was going to install it on my laptop to see what it did there next.

Have not tried it under !0.6.2 yet.
My Hack solution was to do the text in After Effects, and render it out to place into my Motion projects.
I would just use AE for all of it, but Motion's realtime playback makes it much much faster to do the other things I'm doing.

I have another project to work on soon. WIll have to investigate it again under 10.6.2 on my system, but you say you have 10.6.2 so I'm not holding my breath..

what video card do you have? mine is a NVIDIA.

Message was edited by: Steve

OK, I found a solution to this issue!

There seems to be a bug in v4 now, that if you just place text (click and start typing) rather than click and drag a paragraph box for it, it isn't scaling the box to fit the text as you change the tracking smoothly, so it keeps jumping around!

So the solution is to click and drag out a box big enough to hold your text at it's widest tracking width, or beyond. then when you center align the box doesn't change size and your text is nice again!