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the world of FCP…..
As we look further into our transition from Avid to FCP (found some really great articles comapring the two on the net)we’re wondering what the differences are between Motion and Shake. We went to Apples site and could not play the videos so any help here would be greatly appreciated!
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Shake is world class compositing application. Great for hardcore jobs, but with a steep learning curve.
Motion is a easy to learn version of After Effects, with quite a few nice templates. It hasn’t quite managed to give After effects real competition, but it will probably do so in a couple of years. (hopefully… if they start adding stuff that is greatly missed)
Anders
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I have used some AE and ALOT of Boris products ie. Red, Continuum Complete etc. Does Shake compare to Red? If not what does it compare to? Are we talking Lightwave/Maya learning curve?
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Well.. Shake is quite alot like Flame. There is a good book available (can’t remember what its called.. check out amazon) that is quite nice. There is a Shake forum here at the barn that you should check out. There are quite a few different discussions at that forum conserning differences between ae and shake.
https://www.creativecow.net/forum/view_posts.php?forumid=154
Anders
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Shake is great at Film 2K and 4K native support for pulling off those “impossible” keys and composites. As for “motion graphics” and lower 3rds, it is well beyond overkill. I have one Shake 3.0 mac, and use it exclusively for cineon to QT and Cineon file compositing. For that work i charge $500/hour, but only get about a project every 2 months. Motion 2 and AE make a great SD/HD combo. Motion on a fast mac with a 256MB graphics card (ati R800 or GF6800 or Stock Ati 9650) can handle all the day to day graphics work. The “rock the vote 2004” campaign was done in motion excessively and looks great. AE 6.5 on a dual 2.7Ghz mac almost feels like motion, Keylight runs at 20fps in SD, and a 10 second ram preview of keylight renders in 15 seconds. If your not dealing with Film 2k/4k then you do not need shake and shake will be a waist of time and money.
VideoMan
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