• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Start in FCP or Motion? Newbie question

  Posted by Neal Fox on November 6, 2008 at 8:52 pm

  Hello.

  I’ve got the latest FCP and Motion. I’m fairly new to video. I’m trying to do a music video of one of my songs.
  The video is effect intensive. Lots of photo puppets and compositing. My question is this: Should I use Motion as my main creative tool and then bring it all into FCP for the final assembly, or should I start in FCP and just export the effect-heavy sections to Motion and back again?

  Thanks.

  Shane Ross replied 17 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
• 1 Reply

• 

  Shane Ross

  November 7, 2008 at 12:56 am

  EDIT in FCP, Motion graphics and the like in Motion. Composite in both…Motion might be better, but plugins make FCP viable for that too.

  But the main app is FCP. That is what you edit with. Trying to edit with Motion will be like walking in a swamp with snow skis.

  Shane

  

  GETTING ORGANIZED WITH FINAL CUT PRO DVD…don’t miss it.
  Read my blog, Little Frog in High Def

Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up