Looking for an Animatte Plugin

[Jeremy Garchow]

FCP has one, it’s called Motion 😉

Jeremy

[Shane Ross]

Yeah, nothing like round-tripping to an application that is COMPLETELY DIFFERENT than FCP.

This is a huge advantage Avid has over FCP. But then FCP has so many things over Avid too.

I still miss it.

Shane

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[Jack Bibbo]

Yeah I know, but it really should not be. One thing that i like about FCP, among others, is it seems easier for third party folks to write plug-ins. That is why I assumed that has to be something out there.

I guess I am lucky to be able to use both platforms. But it is interesting how many facilities are phasing out AVID.

Anyway if you hear of an AniMatte plug-in out there please let me know.

If someone out there is not familiar with AniMatte in AVID, it is nothing really extraordinary, just a matte tool, unlimited points with a Bezier Curves functionality, that you can animatte. Also has the ability to multiple mattes from one efx and full feathering capabilities.

Thanks

jack

[Kevin Monahan]

Motion Baby. You’ve got two kinds of splines there. Bezier and B-splines.

Kevin Monahan
http://www.fcpworld.com
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro

[Jeremy Garchow]

[jack Bibbo] “If someone out there is not familiar with AniMatte in AVID, it is nothing really extraordinary, just a matte tool, unlimited points with a Bezier Curves functionality, that you can animatte. Also has the ability to multiple mattes from one efx and full feathering capabilities. “

This has been a long needed and requested (by me anyway) in FCP. As of now, you can send shots to motion, work on them there and render in the sequence if you can take the render hit. It’s a plug in of sorts. 😉

I often automatic duck to AE too.

Jeremy

[Jack Bibbo]

While that certainly is a viable option, I don’t have time to roundtrip with clients sitting in the rooms. The comps that I am doing are down and dirty, only to sell an idea. We would then do it for real with a gfx artist in their tool of choice.

The back and forth from application to application to tweak is not appealling.
However when working without clients I no issue with it all.

Glad to hear other people find the tool useful.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[jack Bibbo] “The back and forth from application to application to tweak is not appealling. “

Have you tried it? It’s no diferent than applying a plug in.

Select clips. Right click, Send to > Motion.

Work, save, and then when you tab back to FCP, the comp is updated. Render and watch.

Jeremy

[Lars Fuchs]

Sure, but only a smidgen of feathering. I suppose the +/- 100 feathering control refers to pixels, because when I use large stills in a a Motion comp, I can only get a little bit of feather at the max setting. And the odd corner behavior (peaking) of feathered masks is annoying as heck. Oh, and you can’t set mask shape keyframes to ‘constant’ interpolation.

On the other hand, thinking of Motion as a really big plugin for FCP makes it seem way cooler than as a motion-graphics tool.

Okay, okay, I’m just venting here – sorry about the rant – but I stand by my feathering complaint. And the instability.

[Jeremy Garchow]

Great points, all of them.

AUtomatic duck with FCP and AE is the tools I use to do any matte work. That’s a pretty expensive solution, though, especially if you don’t have the Creative Suite.

By the way, you can feather the mask up to ‘1000’ if you type that value in to the feather parameter in the inspector tab of Motion.

Jeremy

[Craig Shields]

I think you missed it on the feathering option Lars. If you click on the mask tab you can either enter a higher value or slide the value all the way up to 1000. You might want to give Motion a second chance.