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Why is Motion so much faster than A.E
I use Motion for my daily work and have been slowly switching to After Effects do to the plug-ins and community it has making it a much better program in the long run.
Now why is it that After Effects sucks so bad for Motion Graphics Design due to stupid compositions instead of groups, it doesn’t play more than 5 frames a second and its interface is super old school.
Granted it has some awesome features and amazing 3D capabilities and its much easier to move about 3D space but seriously Apple Motion is so much more user friendly and you can actually see what your doing at the time your doing it.Is there something im missing in After Effects or is this just how it is?
I run After Effects on my PC (5gigs Ram. Nvida gtx 260 quad core) and Motion on Mac (27inch iMac 2.8ghz 4gigs ram, graphics is no where near as good as my pc’s)
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11 Replies
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Motion relies much more on hardware acceleration and your graphics card to render, while AFX does most of its work in software. It’s render vs. realtime.
Noah
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I think Motion’s real time speed is what makes it such a great app. I used to be a die hard AE guy and used Motion to create text every once in a while. When they added the 3D camera I started to take it more seriously. I built this TV show open in Motion instead of AE because of the real time capabilities. Because of that and other things I feel I was able to build it faster in Motion. Keep in mind Motion can only handle so much real time and that it starts to chug as things get complicated. I still use both programs, but I use Motion a lot more. Here is a link to some more projects created with Apples Motion.
Stephen Smith
Utah Video ProductionsCheck out my Motion Training DVD
Check out my Motion Tutorials
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Yeah in general I’d say Motion is great for titling, visual effects, and spot effects while AFX excels at more complex compositing, green screen etc. You can master both and be a serious asset to a post-production dept.
Noah
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Yeah I agree, Motion seems to be what i need for my daily work but it just sucks not having the community After Effects has (including the plug-ins)
PS: Very nice Intro!
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“Yeah in general I’d say Motion is great for titling, visual effects…”
I didn’t know that people were using Motion for visual effects. I always assumed folks were using it strictly for motion graphics…
Do you know where I can see examples of VFX made with Motion?
Thanks,
Shawn
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I didn’t know that people were using Motion for visual effects. I always assumed folks were using it strictly for motion graphics…
Do you know where I can see examples of VFX made with Motion?
If you scroll down to leverage you will see some in depth VFX
https://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/in-action/
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when I say ‘visual effects’- I mean sparkly flourishes and laser beamy particle stuff- not Lord of the Rings…
Noah
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Ah, I see. You’re talking about the built in particle engine. I haven’t used Motion, but it does pique my interest. I’m sure someone out there is doing VFX work with Motion, I just have’t found anyone who will admit it. AE is in the same boat, it’s widely used in VFX work, but most post houses would rather not disclose how much they use it. They prefere to play up their Inferno systems or their Fusion stations.
Shawn
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Hmmm…. I didn’t see any mention of VFX or Motion. 🙁 I’m sure something will turn up. Like I said in and ealier reply, I’m interested to see what Motion can do, but I haven’t really seen anyone push it to its limits.
Shawn
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[Jimmylee Remillard] ” just sucks not having the community After Effects has (including the plug-ins)”
In fairness AE has been around for nearly 20 years. Motion is the new kid on the block. It takes time to build a community.
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