Well – it’s “early” 2012

[Tony West]

Thanks Jim for the response. I was kind of thinking that but I needed to hear it from someone like you.

[Jim Giberti] “Did you download the document that goes through all of the Logic features Tony?
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Yes, I did Jim (the one from Apple Logic effects reference) and I have my work cut out for me.

When I look at something like the Tremolo Effect, I say to myself “what the heck? ” : )

Sound is a world to it’s self brother. LOL

[Tony West]

[Steve Connor] “I am a Motion user but I’m learning AE at the moment.”

When you get down AE I would be interested in your comparisons.

[Chris Harlan]

[tony west] “It seems like people who like Motion are more willing to work with X than people who like AE.
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I actually love Motion, and think it is an under-rated and wrongly ignored program by many of my colleagues.

[Jim Giberti]

[tony west] “When I look at something like the Tremolo Effect, I say to myself “what the heck? ” : )

Sound is a world to it’s self brother. LOL”

Oh yes it is.
But as a jazz musician once told me regarding that idiom’s confusion to pop musicians – “it’s still a limited body of information Jim”.

Here’s my first big audio tip:

FORGET ABOUT STUFF LIKE THE TREMOLO EFFECT.
Some of the Logic controls are as superfluous as barn door transitions.

Likewise most of the transitions and visual FX. While there are some great looks to start with, most of it is junk you’d never use in a project.

With the audio learning curve, stick to learning EQ, Level Control and a little Spacial ontrol.

Here’s my second audio tip :

Master the Logic Channel EQ and you’ve got all you need for track by track adjustments, Learn the Logic Limiter and you’ll have what you need for output control, Learn the Logic Space Designer (Convolution Reverb) and you’ll be able to add subtle and FX that will rival any studio.
If you add the Logic Multipressor to that list (as a great mastering tool before the Limiter) you’ve got literally all you need to do a great audio mix.

Four tools to study isn’t so daunting.
Like I said, ask away about audio for film/video in general and I’ll give you any advice I can.

The old axiom is true – Half of all great video is audio.

[Jim Giberti]

[Matt Trubac] ” If Motion 5 is a pure upgrade will it take a “send to motion” from FCP7?”

I don’t mean to say it’s a “pure upgrade” Matt but that it’s not a rewrite and virtually the same concept with a few tweaks.

I haven’t tried working with Motion % and FCP7. To be honest, since making the change to X, I went whole hog and haven’t opened up 7 in a couple of months. any existing work I had there I reimported and started new inX.
I really do like it that much.

And I think/hope you’re right about the xml being the issue.
It would be nice if Apple could communicate these things.

With Apple, I constantly feel like I do when I’m in the middle of a lousy argument with my wife and there’s no communication.

[Jim Giberti]

[Chris Harlan] “I actually love Motion, and think it is an under-rated and wrongly ignored program by many of my colleagues.
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Me too Chris. But you’d hate the way they implemented it in X.

[Neil Goodman]

IMO, the addition of Logics Effects are cool, but having tracks with the ease of logics automation plus the mixer is what makes mixing in Logic great over FCP Legacy. Also, while Logics effects re great, they dont hold a candle to Waves, so until you can open AU’s and use the plgins ofyour choice then im not impressed. I need Waves, and Sonalksis’ offering, the eq’s and compressors ares so m uch better.

Neil Goodman: Editor of New Media Production – NBC/Universal

[Chris Harlan]

[Jim Giberti] “[Chris Harlan] “I actually love Motion, and think it is an under-rated and wrongly ignored program by many of my colleagues.
”

Me too Chris. But you’d hate the way they implemented it in X.

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Yeah, I’m still using v4, though I own a copy of v5. If they ever fix the implementation in X, owning X would be justifiable to me as a gateway to Motion, even if I couldn’t use it for anything else.

[Simon Ubsdell]

[Jim Giberti] “I don’t mean to say it’s a “pure upgrade” Matt but that it’s not a rewrite and virtually the same concept with a few tweaks.”

Strictly speaking Motion 5 is a 64 bit rewrite which is quite a big deal – which would probably also explain why there are a few bits “missing” from the previous version.

Simon Ubsdell
Director/Editor/Writer
http://www.tokyo-uk.com

[Jari Innanen]

So this was a Motion topic. My bad.

Apple Certified Associate, FCP X