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Motion and Shake
After lengthy delays in Combustion 4 coming out for the Mac platform I’m growing interest in Shake and in Motion. What kind of workflow can I expect? Will I have to do a bunch of rendering out QT movies or are the two programs more intergrated then that?
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I think shake sees motion projects as quicktime movies. It opens the project with all the right transparency but no access to the individual layers. But if I were in your shoes, I’d get motion and not worry about shake for now. Shake 4 is on the horizon. If you have combustion 3 and motion, you’ve pretty much got it covered.
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FX Bear,
Yeah, I too am waiting for the C4 update. I recently upgraded into Final Cut Studio which included Motion 2. I can tell you that everything I have been wanting as far as responsivenes and interactivity from Combustion is in Motion and it’s performing the real-time playback and updating with my G5 using a 9600 Pro card. I can imagine what it will do with x800 installed which is the plan. I agree with Dan. Between Motion and Combustion you do have the bases covered.
Once the bugs are worked out of the Final Cut Studio roundtripping workflow this is going to be some workstation. I forsee doing the bulk of my motion graphics, titling and editing in Final Cut 5, Motion 2 and Live Type then using Automatic Duck to bring the FCP timeline into Combustion for finishing only when necessary. I also saw a very impressive QT movie at the Cinema4D site that showed C4D having a Motion Export to bring a scene right into Motion. Very impressive.
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Oh yeah, here’s that link to the C4D to Motion movie:
https://www.maxon.net/pages/products/c4d/images/91/motion.mov
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Thanks for the information Keith. I will look at that site. Have you had any experience with Cinema 4D? I want a 3D application, too, but something with an accesabile interface.
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My apologies for not responding sooner. I forgot to reset my pref’s to be notified of responses to threads.
Your question–No, I don’t have any experience with C4D, but of all of the 3D apps it seems to be the most user friendly setup, and appears to be getting more robust with every release, in addition to, being critically acclaimed player in the market. I figure I can add modules as I need them as opposed to buying 3dsMax for nearly 4K. Also, there’s a lot of training a support for the C4D. That’s the real encouraing part for me.
Right now, I just need it for logo and atmospheric/texture type work in Final Cut Studio and Combustion.
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