and finally……

[Bret Williams]

I agree. You can setup things in Premiere to be the same keystroke, but the function is just different enough to drive you nuts. Like shift+Z. I use that exactly the same in X as 7. But in Premiere, it’s a toggle. A good idea, but it doesn’t feel at home.

Now if Motion could feel as native to me as After Effects. As I make the switch I’m still looking for ways to do things that are so simple in AE and seem like a million clicks in Motion.

[Neil Goodman]

I’m jealous of the people who get to use whatever they want day in and day out.

I own all 3 of the A’s but barely cut at home or take on side gigs anymore. In my market I’m not seeing a massive push for Premiere except at some agencies. Still lots of FCP 7 tho.

As far as FCP X ive seen one job posting in the last couple months and it was for 10 bucks an hour.

[Charlie Austin]

[Bret Williams] “I agree. You can setup things in Premiere to be the same keystroke, but the function is just different enough to drive you nuts. Like shift+Z. I use that exactly the same in X as 7. But in Premiere, it’s a toggle. A good idea, but it doesn’t feel at home.”

Yep… I didn’t remap the Pr KB to be like 7 because I think using a program as designed yells better results. Keeps my brain active. 🙂

[Bret Williams] “Now if Motion could feel as native to me as After Effects. As I make the switch I’m still looking for ways to do things that are so simple in AE and seem like a million clicks in Motion.”

I’m still pretty much lost in either one, so the mitt as well be the same. lol

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[Charlie Austin]

[Neil Goodman] “I’m jealous of the people who get to use whatever they want day in and day out. “

It is kinda fun, in a masochistic way, to jump around. I’ll cut in X unless I need to collaborate with folks at work who are still hanging on to 7 for dear life. One guy uses Pr sometimes so I get to cut in that when he and I are swapping stuff. The others? They started cutting in 7 and are very nervous about learning anything else, which I get. They’ll get at least one more OS upgrade, but after that, who knows? They can always freeze their systems in time… Me, I like the bleeding edge. 🙂

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[Bret Williams]

Yeah, I tried it and it’s was easier just to learn their shortcuts.

But then they went all subscription and my sub expired and I decided not to renew.

[Marcus Moore]

[Bret Williams] “Now if Motion could feel as native to me as After Effects. As I make the switch I’m still looking for ways to do things that are so simple in AE and seem like a million clicks in Motion.”

Examples? I switched from AE to Motion for graphics work about 5 years ago- I love it. Especially now that some good 3rd party support is coming in like Mocha and MotionVFX. Now if only guys like RedGiant would get onboard.

[Bret Williams]

I love Motion. But until I ditched AE it was always a second language. I’ve always assumed there were better ways of doing things. Keyframing mainly. Maybe you can help. Today I created a simple fade in with keyframing opacity. I wanted to paste the same two keyframes to other clips. In AE all I’d do is press the über key U, marquee copy the two Keyframes, highlight the layer to paste to and paste. But in Motion I have to open the keyframe editor (can’t seem to copy from the layer), toggle to animated Keyframes, decipher which Keyframes are opacity ones amongst the jumble of other Keyframes being graphed all over the place (I have no need for a graph 99% of the time), copy, highlight the layer to paste to, toggle the keyframe editor to show just opacity, then paste. I assume there’s a better way. Like I said, I don’t do Motion much but it’s my future since 1. It’s a great app that just performs better than AE, and 2. I’m not renting AE anymore. My copy of CS5 isn’t going to function forever!

[Bret Williams]

Oh yes Motion VFX! The Andrew Kramer of Motion that Simon is. I have the full mObject set and just today was trying add a 3D kitchen to my comp. it worked but pretty well. Got the kitchen off videohive as .obj. It’s definitely going add a little something going forward.

[Marcus Moore]

Well, in that specific instance you’re best and fastest option is to use the FADE IN/FADE OUT Behaviour, which can be very easily copied and pasted to different layers. I’m still fighting 10 years of key-framing habits from my days of AE (which I know has Expressions) and getting used to how great Behaviours are.

My big secret is my two 27″ ACDs. Then throw the timeline over to the second display. That way I never have to close the Keyframe Editor at all.

I would definitely like to see AE’s quick shortcuts to position, scale, etc… ported to Motion. Even if it’s still in the existing Keyframe Editor, a quick key to “solo” parameters so you don’t have to manually turn them all on/off would be great.

Sounds like a feature request!

[Marcus Moore]

Szymon is great, and they produce great products and templates. Anyone who doubts that Motion can satisfy a great deal of the graphics needs of most editors just need to browse the Motion templates pages. Sometimes I’ll just scroll thru them looking for ideas- and I’ll admit to having even bought a couple if I can’t figure out how the heck they’ve done something.

There’s another update to mObject coming soon, I think- bringing a bunch of great new features including Ambient Occlusion. The product still has a ways to go- I don’t think it’s quite as strong as Element, but it does what I need it to do, and it’s getting better all the time.