When editing videos in Motion, I like to use the Audio parameters to have the filters react to the different amplitudes in the song. When using this combination. Motion runs extremely slow then crashes.
MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)
How much RAM is in that MBP?
I'd make sure you have at least 15% of your hard drive capacity as free space.
In the Render menu (top right of canvas) be sure to turn off everything you're not using (shadows, etc), and lower the resolution to make playback easier for your laptop. You can change these back to full resolutoin when you export.
You can try to trash Motion's pref files quickly and safely with "Preference Manager", free from Digital Rebellion (dot com).
If that doesn't work, move the Motion app from the Applications folder to the Trash. Launch the App Store, in the Purchased tab, click Install for Motion.
But be sure that MBP is maxed out on RAM for stuff like Motion.
I have 8GB of RAM but what's funny is that when I had Snow Leopard, my current hardware and settings in Motion were fine. I disabled all the render options when I edit like u said and even my resolution was set low before this post and while I had snow leopard. I'm beginning to lean towards Mountain Lion's fault. Im going to reinstall and see if this problem persists.
I'm on ML and not having any issues. Reinstalling OS X rarely fixes anything, I'd not do that, waste of time. I'd seriously bump up to 16 GB RAM, if not 12. You'll get better performance. Have you actually tried reinstalling Motion?
I just tried tonite, finally, and to no avail, still crashes when using the audio and other filter together. I wanted to upgrade to 16GB of RAM but I have a mid-2010 MBP and cannot upgrade. So im back to square one.
Motion 5 Crashes on Mountain Lion when using audio behaviors to affect filters. Please help, Thanks!
