Apple Motion's Best-Kept Secret

A seriously useful technique that I have employed in many of my tutorials but which I have never explained in detail ... until now.
(Replicators, emitters, clones, graphical, split screen)

[@Bureauofstories]

Amazing. Thanks!

[@user-vm6yp7wi9y]

Thanks, Simon! A clone also has a timing controls in object properties

[@SimonUbsdell]

Indeed. So much to be said about clones: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fXKsm5Rof7ZnnMk

[@Danieltrotti]

Maestro, maestro, maestro !!

[@MattWhittingham]

Super useful, thanks

[@ouziris]

Nice Very good tutorial

[@tedsowards]

You blow me away every time! Thank you for your videos.

[@toddlask]

very cool

[@mattosheafilm]

This is amazing! What a great set of tips. Thanks Simon!

[@Rockysvideostation]

Oh wow! Never knew you could use video as a cell source. This is amazing Simon! Thank you so much for sharing!

[@JasonRamasami]

Fab. Really helpful

[@ib0617]

Nice

[@circulator13]

Thank you Simon for spreading your knowledge 🙌

[@CD-PA]

Finally. So this is the full explanation of our exchange on your seamless looping tutorial 1 month ago. I wish I had this crystal-clear explanation months (years?) ago. But how did you find this out? The motion documentation is so light and doesn't really go into any depth, there's hardly a line on the subject. Still, you have to know how to read between the lines, it's more a question of exploring on your own.

[@JBManos-gg2zm]

Keep ‘em coming Simon! Love hearing your insights on the app itself (like the group vs pre-comp video)

[@axlcinema]

Excellent tutorial. Thanks Simon.

[@pixelrancher]

An amazing feature. Thanks for breaking it down, Simon!

[@alankelly8245]

Brilliant. Very clear and another very useful tutorial, many thanks Simon.

[@Rekotek]

As always - simple and powerful. Thanx for sharing!

[@Richard_Broom_Photography]

Brilliant! I can see many interesting uses for these techniques. Very many thanks.

[@jmd62800]

You are Very Amazing 👌👏👏👏👏👏💪💪💪💪💪😘

[@simoharjane7823]

Cool

[@NealFox]

This is really amazing. I'm a part time user of Motion but this is eye opening. Thanks.

[@m_reis]

Great tip Simon! Thank you so much!

[@one4art]

thank you for this! love the examples

[@komander69X]

Great video, Thank you!

[@morganhazard]

Awesome! have a project where this will come in handy. Thanks!

[@alfonta]

looks very good!! love the colors

[@rodrigomacias]

OMG!! this looks beautiful

[@MarkAhrens-HeritageFilms]

You are a master and a treasure. Thank you!!

[@brianriebedriveselectric]

Brilliant! I had no idea this would work. Thanks!

[@richardmcgowan9080]

You are truly the Motion God

[@DrMemory99]

Very nice and informative! Your videos are a great help to me and inspiring; Thank you so much!

[@marsel2249]

For me, that's the tool for creating the "optical illusion" effect of the circles oscillating in a line that you also made a video on resulting from a discord discussion :D

[@SimonUbsdell]

Indeed ;-)

[@patrickgoethals3235]

YESSSS !

[@breakfastgun]

This came at the most opportune time, as I was just last night trying to figure out how to get a bunch of different animated cells in a replicator to not be in the same frame through the whole animation. How did you know I was working on that, Simon?

[@squeaky_buddha]

🤯

[@motionfxes]

Hi Simon. Do you know if it's possible to "transfer" the frame offset to Final Cut Pro in order to use it in a Generator with a drop zone? I've created a template with a video wall but the offset only work with the embedded video from Motion. When I replace it in FCP (the video is in a drop zone), it does not work. I tried publishing the offset parameter but it still does not work. Many thanks for your Motion tutorials!

[@SimonUbsdell]

It's a bit complicated but if you pay careful attention to what I say about using Clones in this tutorial you should be able to do what you want. Not enough space here to give you a detailed description, sorry.

[@mrdonsmith]

What if... What if you made a source video that changes shots every, say, 6 seconds, and set the Source Frame Offset to 6 seconds? Wouldn't that put a different shot in every 'cell'? That can make one shot animate into many shots, right? Nice!

[@SimonUbsdell]

Yes, good thinking.

[@circulator13]

One question: what hardware do you use for Motion? Does it run smoothly enough for you?

[@SimonUbsdell]

I have this and Motion runs as smoothly as I would hope: Mac Studio with the following configuration: Apple M2 Max with 12‑core CPU, 30‑core GPU, 16‑core Neural Engine, 32GB unified memory

[@circulator13]

@@SimonUbsdell I am asking because I am using the new Macbook Pro M3 Max 14CPU/30GPU with 36GB Ram and Motion is not always showing me the right amount of FPS, so it is often less/slowed down. I am using really big video files with ProRes and modify them. Maybe it is because of that

[@user-sm8bz6su3m]

Thank you for this Motion example ,I have Ver5.7 and able to follow it But not perfectly as I could not find the Video used ,Pixel-allan-mass-5362370 has given some Problems . But I will keep persevering ,I have been following you since Door 9 "have you shown the procedure to output from Blender to Motion" ? Thank you BJ.

[@SimonUbsdell]

I think that clip is no longer available but really any video will do, it's not important what it is. As for the Blender to Motion question, I have covered it in several tutorials but you might like to start with this one: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jpSlZJ5tnZucpsk

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