Update January

Bugs, new features and so on.

First, I want to thank all people who use Motion and write me a lot of gratitude and even bugs. You help me to improve this plugin every time.

Bugs

Export

I received a lot of bugs about export. Most part is connected with export GIF. I agree that there are some bugs with export. It is really hard work to make it work perfectly on different computers and different OS with different RAM.

Let me dive into details why it didn’t work in 100% cases. Motion rendered every frame into memory and after that it uploads your frames on our server. Our server converts your frames into GIF and give it back. If you have a very long animation, or you have too big frame size, it may fail. It may happen because your memory cannot hold all the frames. It may happen if converting frames into GIF takes too much time and fails. So, I decided to reinvent export according to accumulated experience.

Undo/Redo

There were a lot of bugs in undo/redo mechanism. I rebuild it and I hope this will help.

Copy keyframes

If you change keyframe easing and after that will copy keyframe, it will not copy its easing. I fixed that.

New

Rendering

First, Motion now renders and uploads to our server every N frames. N will variate according to the needs. It does not wait until all the frames will be rendered. This should help with memory bugs.

Server rendering is now more wise for any bugs. It can give you more detailed information if something is wrong. I hope you will report bugs via email.

Total animation / Time range

Time range export option is available now. You can export total animation and time range you select in the timeline.

Transparent GIFs

Transparent GIFs were a headache. They were rendered on your computer using not very good algorithms. They had a lot of artifacts. Now, they are rendered on our server and the quality is the best that GIF may give you.

Undo/Redo

Undo/redo now shows keyframe property name and its new value. More than that it will select layer which keyframe is changing.

Major updates

I decided to release a major updates only on weekends. Your work will not be stopped if something will go wrong. I can collect bugs on weekends and release another update if it needs.

Conclusion

Thank you again for your responses and patience if something goes wrong.

If you have any ideas, feel free to write me. The better way is to email me. The email address you can find in the plugin Main menu or on the plugin page.

Keep on making the best product.