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Monday, October 27, 2008
Getting the Most out of Motion
Mark Spencer | 10/27
12 Tips for Improving Motion’s Performance
7) Turn off and/or Solo layers. Click the visibility checkboxes for layers or entire groups you aren’t focussed on. Option-clicking a checkbox will solo that layer or group, leaving it visible and turning off all other layers.
8) “Bake” completed groups. If you’ve created a complex background element, it’s complete, and it’s bogging Motion down, then export it using Export Selection - in the Export dialog, you have the option under the After Export pop-up menu to automatically bring the exported Quicktime movie back into the project. Then turn off the original background. If you decide to change it later, you can always go back to the original.
9) Turn off thumbnail previews. You wouldn’t think the little thumbnails in the Layers tab of the Project pane would affect playback, but try turning them off using the flyout menu - you might be surprised.
10) Set Render Quality to Normal. It’s under the View button at the top right of the Canvas. This is the default setting, so you may not need to change it.
11) Watch your particle count. If you are working with Particle Emitters, reduce the Birth Rate and the Life as much as you can. If you have a system creating 100 particles per second with a life of 60 seconds for a 2-minute second project and you hit your End key to jump the playhead to the end of your project, Motion needs to calculate the trajectory of 12,000 particles and then composite them into your scene - a good way to spend some time with a beachball.
12) Turn on Fixed Resolution. In the example above, Motion keeps track of all the particles, even if they have moved well off the screen - the problem is compounded if you are also added filters to the particle system. You can read more about the benefits and pitfalls of fixed resolution here .
And finally, a caution: you’d thing that reducing the project resolution from Full to Half, Third, or Quarter would improve my performance, but I see no change on my system.
If you find any other ways to boost Motion’s performance, let me know!
For complete training on Motion, please check out my DVDs at Ripple Training.
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Gustav, make sure you have a new model G5 with PCI express, otherwise the X1900 won’t work, you’ll have to use something like the 800XT.
Posted by Mark Spencer on 10/28 at 09:03 PM
Mark,
I fully agree with all above.
I recently installed the Radeon 3870 and beefed up the RAM of my Mac Pro to 10 GB and yes…. It’s so fast now, I don’t recognize Motion !!!
My only concern is that the fan on the card keeps running all the time.
Thank you Mark for all your tips, tutorials, DVDs….
All the best
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 12/02 at 08:13 AM
I use two monitors and was thinking of upgrading my graphics card for a richer pictures and motions. Still looking for a good upgrade option. David
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