Magic Motion Malfunction

DouglasW

Member Joined: Mar 09, 2008 14:49 Messages: 66 Offline

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Mar 26, 2008 11:58

I am preparing a slide show with digital images, titles, music, and narration, to then burn to a DVD. I am used to the Magic Motion functions, and to it's occasional freezes, but am encountering a new problem. I apply a motion function to a clip, re-run the clip in the time line and it is fine. When I return to work the next day on my project, some of the clips now show the magic motion applied to an extreme close-up of the image, so I have to remove MM , and then apply it, and it happens again. I still want to use these images with MM, but am having to leave them as 8 second or whatever still images. What am I doing wrong? Doug

Barry

Senior Member Location: N Attleboro, MA Joined: Jul 13, 2006 19:57 Messages: 295 Offline

Mar 26, 2008 12:33

You are not doing anything wrong, it's an error, perhaps in the software.
This has been on the forum before, but no solutions arose.
Try this...take the source picture file and make a copy of it, use the copy.
Or maybe save the source picture file as a different file type, bmp, jpg, png. I was going to try this the next time this happened to see if it works, but now you are the guinee pig!
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DouglasW

Member Joined: Mar 09, 2008 14:49 Messages: 66 Offline

Mar 27, 2008 00:40

Thanks Barry. I started at the beginning of the images, and removed MM from all corrupted clips, then re-applied MM, checking the clip playback in MM and again in the timeline, to ensure that it ran properly, then saved the project as replacing the existing one, and went through to the end, doing this at each defective MM clip, and somehow it worked. It took a bit of time, but fortunately, most clips with MM were already OK.
I also discovered that you cannot apply backlight correction with Magic Clean to a clip which already has had MM applied..it has to be in the reverse. This is not mentioned in the Manual, and perhaps should be, in the next edition. Doug