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Apple’s Motion 4 Power Tip - Rasterizing Vector files

For this Power Tip, I thought that I’d look at a common workflow for After Effects users, but a feature that might throw you for a bit of a loop in Apple’s Motion, and that is utilizing the power of vectors in your Illustrator AI files, as it’s a little bit tricky to “turn on” the feature.

In After Effects, we are all familiar with the “Continuously Rasterize” button in our timeline.

This toggle let’s us tell After Effects that an object has vectors (among other things), and it should use them.  Take a look at how it works.

So you can see the power of using your vectors (like eating your Wheaties). But what about Motion users?  This feature was added in version 4, but there’s no button to turn it on…….or is there.  Well, there is, and here’s how you do it.

So you can see that, just like in After Effects, working with Vector based files is quick and easy.  As I tell my students, it’s not that it doesn’t work, it’s that they are not working it right.  Remember, if you have a suggestion for a power user tip, you can always drop me an e-mail and let me know.  I’m going to try to make this a regular feature on the Edit and Post Blog, so stay tuned for more Power User tips!  As always, you can send me an .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or follow me on Twitter @ http://www.twitter.com/kpmcauliffe .

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Nice article - one thing, however: the fixed resolution checkbox has been available since at least Motion 2.

Posted by Mark Spencer  on  04/16  at  09:25 PM

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