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Bringing Motion2 into AE
At NAB, they showed how a Motion2 project could be brought into AfterEffects without rendering. And then if you needed to make changes to your motion project while you were in AE, all you needed to to was use the “Open in Editor” to make changes. I’m not able to replicate the steps to do this. Does anyone know the process of getting motion2 into an AE project?
I’ve tried importing a motion project directly into AE, also exporting from motion, but nothing seems obvious.
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From the Motion 2 Late Breaking News PDF on Apple’s site:
(sorry for the formatting)Adobe After Effects Integration You can import a Motion project directly into an After Effects project, preserving its quality without intermediate rendering of QuickTime movies or image sequences. Because After Effects interprets the Motion project as a movie, any operation that can be applied to a QuickTime movie can be applied to a Motion project. Once a Motion project is opened in After Effects, you can invoke the Edit Original command from the After Effects timeline to launch Motion and modify a project in Motion. Once the project is modified and saved in Motion, it is automatically updated in After Effects. Opening Motion projects in After Effects is certified only for After Effects 6.5, and has not been tested with other versions of After Effects. Motion must be installed on the same computer in order to view, edit, and render Motion projects from After Effects. To use a Motion project in After Effects: 1 In After Effects, choose File > Import > File. 2 In the Import File dialog, do the following:
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Perfect, thank you. The process works extremely well. The motion project in AE has some acceleration but certainly not as much as it would be in its native MOTION app.
While motion2 is NOT an AE killer, it is sure my best plug-in. 🙂
G5 dual 2.7, 4gb ram, Nvidia 6800
OS X 10.4.1, QT 7
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I think that’s a great way to look at it.
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Mark Spencer
Freelance Editor/Producer
Apple-certified instructor, Final Cut Pro and Motion
Author, Motion Visual Quickstart Guide from Peachpit Press (coming soon)
https://www.applemotion.net
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