Hi all.
I am having trouble moving an oject around a canvas in Motion 4.
I have made the object 3d, it is a "Clockwork" particle and it is tilted backwards.
I now want it to move around the x and y axis of the canvas.
But when I engage the motion button and keyframe as normal I see the motion poits but the object does not move.
Can anyone help?
Hi Will,
if you are aplying it as a particle are you moving the emitter? Which part of the group are you creating x,y values for?
Cheers
Pi
The particle is in a group. I have applied the motion to the group and nothing happens.
I can drag the particle around the canvas with the mouse by selecting the group but motion seems not to move the object.
Here's a screencapture video I made of the problem
http://www.willpower.net.au/downloads/MatchMoveError.mov
See in it that the graphic itself does not move along the motion path but its control does.
Hi Will,
In the Motion Tracker, set the Transform type to Mimic Source instead of Attach and tick the 'Anchor' box at the bottom.
Pi
Hi Mr Pi, I tried that but it did not work. See the video here http://www.willpower.net.au/downloads/MatchMoveError2.mov
Hi Will,
Sorry for the late reply, I've been away on a shoot. I couldn't find a solution anywhere else so a created one of my own for you.
I notice that you have a camera at the top. When you track a particle it only occurs on the birth of that particle. So the position is held in 2d or 3d space for it's entire life at the position of the emitter at that time. That's so that if you have a 3d particle and want the camera to move around it, it stays in place.
So I figured, "what if you attach the camera to the track? - of course it will happen back to front unless you use a stabilise". So I moved the Match Move to the Camera, reattached the source to the tracker and made the camera a 2d camera. I then went to the camera properties and made the rotation of x and y to be 180º.
And it works 🙂
Hope it works for you
Pi
Thanks for your replay Mr Pi.
I will give that a try so I can learn for next time.
But I ended up doing it in after Effects and it was relativel painless.
keyframing in motion4?
