[pgreenwell]

Quick question: I recently tried to install the Final Cut Studio on my Powerbook, and everything went successfully, or so I thought. FCP opens fine, as well as DVD Studio Pro, but when I try to open Motion, it bounces maybe twice on the dock, then stops and sits there. No black triangle under it or anything. I try it again, bounces once, then it stops. Take it out of the dock, and open it: bounce once in the dock then disappears. I have no clue why this is happening, but I need Motion. So basically I have two questions: first, does anybody know why this is happening, or experienced it with any other programs?

Secondly, I tried to "uninstall" the entire studio from my Powerbook, I guess just by dragging and dropping the icons from the apps folder to the trash. Is this the correct way to uninstall them? I assume no, because when I insert disc 1 of the Final Cut Studio, it just says that everything is an upgrade, and not an installation. Therefore, the size is 0 bytes in all of them. How do I get a clean install of the Final Cut Studio so when I try to install it again, its like for the first time. I don't even type in the serial numbers anymore, and I know that can't be right! Please help!

thanks alot! Please help

[GSixZero]

What are the specs of your powerbook? Motion is very hardware intensive and won't run on a lot of stuff. What's the processor speed, amount of RAM and video card/VRAM in your computer?

I'm guessing it didnt get installed correctly though.

[waxcrash]

Does your PowerBook fit in these specs?

Minimum System Requirements
Macintosh computer with 867MHz or faster PowerPC G4 or G5 processor
512MB of RAM
Mac OS X v10.3.9 or later; Mac OS X v10.4 “Tiger” required for 16- and 32-bit float rendering and Core Image Unit support
QuickTime 7 or later
Display with 1024 x 768 resolution or higher
One of the following graphics cards:
ATI Radeon X850 XT
ATI Radeon X800 XT Mac Edition
ATI Radeon 9800 XT (R360)
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (R350)
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro (R300)
ATI Radeon 9600 XT (RV360)
ATI Radeon 9600 Pro (RV350)
ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 (RV M11)
ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 (RV M100
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL (NV40)
NVIDIA GeForce Go5200 (NV34M)
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra (NV34)
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT DDL
10GB of disk space for application, templates and tutorial
DVD drive for installation

[pgreenwell]

My Powerbook is a 15", 1.5ghz, 128mb graphics card, 1.5gb RAM, 80gb 5200rpm HD with external HD as well. I would assume Motion would at least RUN on this baby. I mean, I got it this way to run the PRO apps. The only thing is that at the end of installation, it said, "Installation completeled successfully." How do I COMPLETELY erase the apps and totally restart the process, so that I have to enter serials and the long process starts over? HELP!

[tooki]

There's nothing wrong with your hardware. My hunch is it's an OS problem.

First, try to see if it loads under a different user account. Also, you could check the Console utility to see what, if any, errors are being recorded when Motion fails to launch.

tooki

[pgreenwell]

I just think it's weird that everything else works but Motion. My system requirements are above the minimum, but it just won't start up? Can anybody tell me how to completely uninstall this stuff? But I really appreciate all the help so far!

This is what Console says when I try to open Motion:
dyld: Library not loaded: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/LiveType.framework/Versions/A/LiveType
Referenced from: /Applications/Motion.app/Contents/MacOS/../Frameworks/Ozone.framework/Versions/A/Ozone
Reason: no suitable image found. Did find:
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/LiveType.framework/Versions/A/LiveType: unknown file type, first eight bytes: 0x8D 0xBE 0x1F 0x65 0x61 0x10 0xE8 0x6C
Oct 13 22:32:00 patricks-powerbook-g4-15 crashdump[310]: Motion crashed
Oct 13 22:32:00 patricks-powerbook-g4-15 crashdump[310]: crash report written to: /Users/Patrick/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Motion.crash.log

[pgreenwell]

Oh yeah... and this is what my Console says when I try to open Motion:

dyld: Library not loaded: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/LiveType.framework/Versions/A/LiveType
Referenced from: /Applications/Motion.app/Contents/MacOS/../Frameworks/Ozone.framework/Versions/A/Ozone
Reason: no suitable image found. Did find:
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/LiveType.framework/Versions/A/LiveType: unknown file type, first eight bytes: 0x8D 0xBE 0x1F 0x65 0x61 0x10 0xE8 0x6C
Oct 13 22:32:00 patricks-powerbook-g4-15 crashdump[310]: Motion crashed
Oct 13 22:32:00 patricks-powerbook-g4-15 crashdump[310]: crash report written to: /Users/Patrick/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Motion.crash.log

Something with Livetype? not sure
Does Livetype need to be installed with Motion?

[jamil5454]

It wouldn't hurt. Looks like maybe a corrupt or missing LiveType install.