How to turn off automatic keyframing in motion 5.0.2?

This is totally frustrating and unacceptable. Who's in charge of the developement of Motion? He (or she) should be fired right away. Not only makes this new "feature" Motion unusable, but if you have saved the project with 5.0.2 you can kiss your project goodbye when using 5.0.1! FFS! God I'm ******.

I have no idea what you're talking about. I'm not experiencing that problem at all. Are you sure you didn't accidentally enable the Record button (typing A by accident?) [The record button will be highlighted on the transport controls bar.]

that's very interesting...

why do you need a single keyframe and have the object NOT do anything else in the play range?

In my copy of M5 .2, if I set a position keyframe, the only keys automatically created are positions. For scaling, I had to manually add a scaling key to start recording scales. Automatic keyframing does not fire keys for position, scale, rotation, etc., unless I start one.

However, they will automatically keep recording while playing the timeline (just as if Record is enabled). According to the manual:

Choose Mark > Recording Options.

Select “Don’t Record keyframes during playback.”

And motion will not record changes while the project is playing.

Also, it is still possible to move the entire keyframe/motion path. Command-option click anywhere on the path and you can drag it around. You can drag around only segments of the path by simply clicking on the path between two keyframes and reposition it. Etc... (it's all in the manual.)

If I switch over and use the "Record Method", then the "Initial Keyframe" method is not used.

And, if you just need to start over without keyframes, there's the Transform reset button which clears all keyframes in a click.

It all seems very cool to me.

Oh, thank you for pointing out this. I tried to search the manual but didn't find the solution back then. There wasn't any mention of this in the keyframing methods -section, so I thought there was no way to move paths anymore.

There are still some minor annoyances with this update (at least I haven't figured it out), like if you have an object with a path and try to scale it to the left/right. It then creates a new position keyframe because the center of the object moves. Only solution i did find was to scale it to both directions and then adjust the anchor point. And I don't really like that you can't move the whole path anymore from the inspector. It was really convenient way to move things precisely horizontally or vertically. I just wish there was an option to turn this off completely.

Take a look at this section of the manual: http://help.apple.com/motion/mac/5.0/en/motion/usermanual/#chapter=12%26section= 3%26hash=apple_ref:doc:uid:Motion-UserManual-90915KFC-1024156

The shortuct fox_m suggested is listed in under "To move the entire animation path". It might be worth looking through for other tips.

I do agree not being able to adjust keyframed parameters in the Inspector WITHOUT setting a keyframing makes things quite bit more difficult, as you can't be precise when Command-dragging a motion path in the Canvas.

I really can't get upset about this... The convenience of everything else out-weighs this minor gotcha. If worse comes to worse, group the object animated and correct its global position with the group positioning controls. The animation path will be completely "corrected" without having to deal with anchor points or more keyframing correction or editing.

Another way of global correction/repositioning is the keyframe editor (although not quite as accurate as using a group, you still can get about a 1/4 point accuracy): Move the object to the first keyframe (or whichever keyframe you need to use as the "guide"); command-option-click on the animated parameter (you don't even have to hilite the param in the list) and drag it (it will be all keys) to the new offset position [use the value in the keyframe param list as your indicator]. To get the approximate 1/4 point accuracy, zoom in all the way vertically.

HTH

I'm incrediby frustrated now too because of this. I've been using Motion since it was initially released and can't believe they'd just completely change this. What's the point of the record button now?! I have time machine and I guess this is the only resolution. Beyond tragic.

I have been struggling with this for ages. I think its a massive step in the worng direction. Feedback here I come!

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Not sure if anyone is still having this problem, I just came across it today in Motion 5.1.2. The solution I found was to click on the actual animation path and drag it instead of trying to click on the object and moving it.

It's been 3 years since the first question about this issue, and now all the way in Motion 5.1.2 this annoyed "issue" still exists - Apple, PLEASE get rid of this from Motion, or at least create a toggle to turn it on or OFF. It is a massive frustration.

Being able to adjust the position of an object, but retain the key frames of its animation is the only way to work.

I recently upgraded to Yosemite and one of my biggest disappointments is that I can't run Motion 4 any more! Yes Motion 4. In my opinion Motion 4 was close to perfect - 5 was a step down, and this particular issue being top of the list why it's a step down.

Hi,

I have to agree with you Jonathan, (except for the Motion 4 being near perfect). I know some people don;t see this as an issue at all, and I can see the advantages of it on occasion. However there is a very simple example to show why we just need a button that can toggle the feature on and off.

Say I've animated a block growing, it comes form nothing to full size and springs backwards and forwards in size as if it had momentum. Lovely. Now I realise I didn't quite make it big enough. I can't change the global size of the object. I have to change each keyframe. Yes I can put the object into a layer and change that, but that seems a fudge.

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