Motion and El Capitan

[Bret Williams]

I’m talking about a situation where the NLE is basically used for shot selection and timing. Then the project is exported to AE or Motion where the clips are layered and mixed with graphics in 3D space with transitions and effects.

It’s a pretty common need. Automatic duck made a living from it. Takes a mere seconds to use XtoCC (which can also get your project from X to AE even easier) to get your XML to Legacy, and another couple seconds to output a Motion 4 file. You don’t even need to touch motion 4. Just open the Motion 4 file in Motion 5.

Anyway, the only use I can think of anymore for having FCP 7/Moiton 4 around.

[Robin S. kurz]

[Bret Williams] “I’m talking about a situation where the NLE is basically used for shot selection and timing. Then the project is exported to AE”

Ah. In which case I personally much prefer ClipExporter over AD for price reason’s alone (v1.x is even FREE), but also since there’s no “via XML” or via any other apps kludges needed either (in v2.1) with the additional optional goodies of getting trimmed copies of clips AND as Nuke files. And from my non-scientific comparisons, the ClipExporter conversion is cleaner. Then there’s always “SendTo” (Motion), that still works on not-too-complex projects, which is also free. Because if you add both AD and XtoCC price-wise in comparison… (O_O)

– RK

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