Reasons I hate MOTION….. please tell me I’m wrong.

[Nick B]

Just to put things in perspective only a few years ago i was sitting in a $1Million edit suit and i couldnt do what Motion and FCP can do for a few thousand $

So why not go out and buy a new top end G5 have After effects and Motion its cheap enough unless your working for free or low pay

[Dominik Bochenski]

A lot of goood points guys…. Thanks for the Shadow, Blur tip. That will help a lot.

Couple more things I was wondering.

1. To avoid crashes within FCP when using motion files, do you guys nest them within their own sequences and render those before nesting them into your main clip?

2. When you save a motion file that’s already within FCP, upon re-entry into FCP, does it ever say that your media is offline and makes you reconnect that same motion file?

3. Does anyone know if there is a codec that has an alpha channel but will play back realtime when comped in FCP…. I heard something about some sort of Pixar codec that might have come out with tiger??????

[David Robinson]

#1 I usally don’t nest Motion files.

#2 – I wish there was an option to have FCP automatically reconnect updated Motion (or any media) project. I don’t know of any? FCP 5?

#3 – Don’t know of a codec with realtime alpha. Anyone know of one?

[Dominik Bochenski]

“#1 I usally don’t nest Motion files.”

Do you not find that if you try to trim an embedded motion file…..

1. It slows down FCP
2. Sometimes it (often) even cause FCP to crash

[David Robinson]

I haven’t noticed these, but I’m also not doing a lot of layers.