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working with 2 machines and workflow questions…
I have no idea what it is about Motion’s learning curve that has me ‘confused’ as it sells itself as such a simple intuitive prgram, which i’m sure it is. It’s me, not you.
anyway. I have an opportunity to really get my feet wet with a large DV project that will need some movement. my old workflow was to do temp moves/graphics in FCP and then get them into AE for sweetening – or do them them there from the get-go if it needed a billion layers and masking etc.
my 2 main questions before i dive in:
1 – I’m in NYC and this is for a job in LA. We have done this a bunch of times in the past and this is what we do – i have a duplicate drive here with all the media and they have one there. cuts are emailed and re-linked and the end. additional media that arrises like AE movies or new stills or graphics are sent to each other via FTP.
my question is, how would motion fit into this equation? If i have the media here and they have it there – what would happen when they re-link? what would motion / FCP do? does this make sense? how would we make this work? can we? this is not a simple answer i bet….
2 – Am i wrong or with Motion is each GRAPHIC a project? or can you have multiple graphics in a project? meaning – in After effects you have multiple Compositions in a project. I have a motion book for dummies, but couldn’t get the answer i was looking for.
it seems a little strange to have each graphic that i want to sweeten in motion be a seperate project as opposed to a say – a single composition within a project. additionally with graphics i want to create entirely in motion, it seems a odd to not have them collected in one project that matches my FCP project. i guess i could collect them in – say a folder on my harddrive, but…well.. just asking
thanks guys!!
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Hey Frank,
In Motion, layer objects are the equivalent of AE comps: a layer contains objects (or other layers) ad infinitum, so you can have as many “graphics” as you want in a project. As for workflow, Motion projects save the path to footage as both absolute and relative, so relinking is a snap.
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thank you very much!
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