Strange Color Distortion in Motion

Download the pro applications update and firmware updates from Software Update. I think OS X v.4.8 also has graphics cards updates included.

Btw what kind of Media is it you've imported?

( Repairing permissions wouldn't hurt either...)

Repairing permissions, is a general "remedy" for checking your /Library/Receipts.In a few words:

Many things you install in Mac OS X are installed from package files (whose filename extension is ".pkg"). Each time something is installed from a package file, a "Bill of Materials" file (whose filename extension is ".bom") is stored in the package's receipt file, which is kept in /Library/Receipts/ . If you look in the Receipts folder, for example, you should see all kinds of files that end with .pkg, including some that were created when Mac OS X was installed (for example, BaseSystem.pkg). Don't worry, these files don't take up much disk space and you shouldn't put them in the Trash.

Each of those ".bom" files contains a list of the files installed by that package, and the proper permissions for each file.

When you use Disk Utility to verify or repair disk permissions, it reviews each of the .bom files in /Library/Receipts/ and compares its list to the actual permissions on each file listed. If the permissions differ, Disk Utility reports the difference (and corrects them if you use the Repair feature).

Taken from here: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25751

It's not necessary it will solve something.You'll have to go Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility > Repair permissions to do it. Also, in case your graphics card shows failures (check with other apps as well) you can run Apple's hardware test ( It's in your initial cd's). Finally, make sure it's not the media that provokes it.

Someone else posted something like this to this forum recently. I'd do a search and see if anything was resolved...

Patrick

Hi CasperT,

I'm getting the exact same kind of glitch. Its only happening on movie clips I've imported into the Motion project. It only affects the movie clips. I've experienced the problem with a number of different clips. So far I've reinstalled Motion, tried to find a corrupted file but nothing is working.

Let me know if you have any success?