Motion 3 in 3-D Walk-through

SynthEyes can export to Motion 3 as a 3-D scene. Not only cameras and trackers can be exported, but planes as well, which appear as Drop Zones in Motion. A special script in SynthEyes adjusts the aspect-ratio of planes in SynthEyes to simplify handling in Motion.

Due to the display area required for this tutorial, it is available only as a Quicktime.

Notes:

  1. Important note: As of 6 August 2008, Motion 3 does not display 3-D camera tracks correctly unless the pixel aspect ratio is 1.0 exactly. HD resolutions at 1920 x 1080 and 1280 x 720 are fine, but 720 x 480 DV will have a small insidious drift, especially visible on longer shots. Apple is currently investigating this issue and a fix or work-around is expected.
  2. The video is 5:06 and 6.9 MB long. Check out all the other tutorials and the manual too (after downloading the demo version).
  3. You can download a Motion 3 ZIP file with the sni file, the motion export, and a compressed version of the source. Note that you will have to reestablish connections to the media as the filenames will be different on your machine.
  4. Tutorial captured on Core Duo iMac.