When I make an object invisible, it is still in the viewer and in the exported video, please advise...
chuck
Nov 3I'm trying to start a new project, and when I opened the program, the active camera is being shown in the top right hand corner (as usual) and also in the bottom left hand corner. I can't minimize the window in the bottom left and I can't open the settings, because the settings window pops up behind that camera window. I have no idea how to get rid of it and I've literally been clicking on everything for the past 45 minutes haha. Can someone please help me out? I can't select it, nor can I find a way to get rid of it.
That's the way the feature was designed. It was meant to de-clutter the stage view and not effect the final output.
Yeah, that really doesn't help. If you turn off a layer, a video, a filter, an object or any effect in Motion 5, it is gone until it is turned back on, not appearing on the screen or in the exported video...
Thanks for the feedback. We'll try to add the ability to hide objects in the viewfinder.
When you don't want a certain object in the shot, why not just delete it?
When you are attempting to layer live action within a scene that you have composed within Shotpro, and you want to put the live action among the Shotpro composed objects using green screen, it would be a great help to be able to first compose it as you want it, then make separate videos with those objects which are in front of, and then in back of the live action layer. The problem with deleting the object is that to bring it back in like you had it in the original composition, its really difficult to achieve the thing that you originally had before your deletion. You have a great program, but you must realize that it is not the easiest thing to manipulate objects, they defy manipulating like you want. To manipulate an arm of a human figure, for example, is incredibly difficult. You push it one way and BOOM, it flips around the complete opposite that you desired. So when you achieve something akin to what you want to do, the last thing you want to do is delete something. It was a great disappointment to find out that Shotpro didn't act like the vast majority of other programs, that when you turn something off it really isn't off. It will force me to find work-arounds, and I'm willing to do it, but I do perceive that lack of functionality in Shotpro as that, a lack of functionality...
You can duplicate the scene and delete the props from the duplicate. That way you still have the original. We will look into solutions.