Motion TRACKS versus FCP X Trackless

[Bill Davis]

At the risk of getting yelled at more… : )

There’s a reason that Google went from obscurity to global prominence so quickly.

They understood that in a world where access to information is expanding so rapidly, the key enabling technology that makes sense of the world is … search.

In X, that’s precisely what’s been elevated by the re-build.

A “search engine” was grafted in front of the editing interface.

If they keep expanding input and output in the future, and X comes to be seen not exclusively as “an editing application” but more as an editing enabled “gatekeeper” providing access to storage pools of “edits” and “exports” – it will be a major player in a somewhat new ballgame.

I think they’re building the “editor” today. I suspect they’ll continue to build on that tomorrow, but also keep an eye on whats happening in increasingly disperse image creation (the Go Pro to Red spectrum) and increasingly diverse output (the smart phone to movie screen spectrum.)

That’s the world X is moving us toward – hand in hand with the other “A’s – who all, IMO, will continue their already started journeys to widen capabilities at BOTH the small and large screen ends of the production spectrum.)

We’ll see.

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[Christian Schumacher]

[Bret Williams] ” I think you try that in FCP 7 it just arranges them in the seq alphabetically. Oops.”

But in “List View” if you sort a bin of clips in columns, say “reel” or “duration”, and drag that bin to a sequence, it will be populated accordingly. All clips within that bin will get to the sequence in that sorted order. Very handy.

[T.a. Franks]

Yes yes good old Shake, what a sad day when it was announced eol.
Having a node editor in Motion would, well give it more cool points over After Effects. Why Apple never ported a the nodes over to Motion is for me unanswerable. A must for compositing and you can keep the tracks for the timing as in Shake.
I have been spoking to a Adobe After Effects engineer at a Adobe party during the NAB and a node editor is not out of the question. His story is they have follow a request list for new features.
But I have been hoping for the nodes on every big update of Motion… and now we are on 5. I starting to lose hope. :o*

Remove the Layer tab and replace it with a Node tab! Unless they don’t want get serious.

[Oliver Peters]

[T.a. Franks] “Remove the Layer tab and replace it with a Node tab! Unless they don’t want get serious.”

Unfortunately Motion was conceived as a motion graphics tool to be an editor-friendly companion to FCP. It was designed by the ex-Combustion designers with an eye towards improving on LiveType and not really becoming Shake or After Effects, for that matter.

– Oliver

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