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FCP X or not?
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[Michael Gissing] “So your motive for posting was to get the negative response that you wanted. Hardly an edifying reason.”
Not really.. as I said in another reply, it was kind of an afterthought, and my reply to you was a knee-jerk reaction. Sorry about that.
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[Oliver Peters] “That tended to affect internal corporate, more than anything else.”
dunno Oliver. the current UK broadcast disney promo endboard template is a truly excellent motion file. simon ubsdell would be proud.
https://vimeo.com/user1590967/videos http://www.ogallchoir.net promo producer/editor.grading/motion graphics
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[Walter Soyka] “I’ve developed an Ae technique using invisible text layers and expressions which allows the editor to hijack text entry fields for more generalized rigging.”
Walter,
Brilliant. Of Course. Thanks for this.
Franz.
Edit: Walter, I understood the principal immediately, but could you give a quick example of how to convert text field to value for expressions.
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[Walter Soyka] “in typical Apple style, they trade power for simplicity.”
Wow.
I am printing this out for posterity.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Wow. I am printing this out for posterity.”
Maybe power is not the right word; I don’t mean to suggest that you can’t do cool stuff with Apple solutions.
Is flexibility better?
Walter Soyka
Designer & Mad Scientist at Keen Live [link]
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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No, I think you’re right, just glad to hear you say it! 😛
Apple cares about power in very different ways, and a lot of it does stem from efficiencies.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “No, I think you’re right, just glad to hear you say it! :P”
Yes, you have won! I conceded [link] a year ago.
(But I still don’t think it always was this way…)
Walter Soyka
Designer & Mad Scientist at Keen Live [link]
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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[Walter Soyka] “For more advanced designers, I’ve developed an Ae technique using invisible text layers and expressions which allows the editor to hijack text entry fields for more generalized rigging.”
Brilliant. I love it.
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“Yes, expressions in Ae predate Motion itself by 3 years. And expressions were by no means unique to Ae: pretty much every worthwhile animation package has them.”
You guys are right about expressions. But there was something Adobe introduced in response to Motion. Maybe more animation presets or something. This was at the same time the puppet tool was introduced. I recall there were additional animation and random variations you could invoke. I believe you had to access these through Bridge. Anyone recall this? At the time I got the distinct impressions that the AE engineers were saying, “Oh, if that’s what you want, we can do that,too!”
Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
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Text animation presets and Brainstorm?
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