Charlie Austin
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[John Rofrano] “Are you referring to the fact that all keyframes are linear and there isn’t any way to set a curve/easy in/out? Because I agree with you there. Other than that, I don’t have a problem with how keyframes are handled.”
Me neither. 10.2 seems to have a lot more ability to set curves on keyframes as well. Not sure if it was the case before as I don’t do a ton of keyframed moves, but I just did some stuff the other day and pretty much every KF I set had a linear/smooth option. Is this missing for some KF stuff?
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[Simon Ubsdell] “Yes, motionvfx do some great stuff … but for anyone who’s interested in making this effect for themselves in Motion, you might like to try out my popular YouTube tutorial that shows you how to do it:”
That’s, as usual, a great tutorial, did it a while ago with… decent results. Not because of the tutorial, but because I still basically fumble around in Motion. 🙂 You should DL the demo of the mvfx thingy, it’s quite nice. Perfect for lazy editors like me! 😉
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “come on. it’s circus carny stuff. Apple put their back into a fifteen year old 3D text sell. Where are the keyframing tools? Why is X still as stupid as it is for keyframing?”
The point of this post was simply that Motionvfx doesn’t seem to have been affected by Apple adding 3D text to X. He’s released more 3D related stuff in the last couple weeks than ever. And mObject does a lot more than text, apparently it’s doing fine.
[Aindreas Gallagher] “The fact that you end up with ripple training selling wallmart litre mayonnaise copper distressed bevel one time offer type styles on QVC tells you everything you need to know about the heart of FCPX.”
Good for them. Hopefully they sell a lot of them. I won’t buy ’em, for the same reason I don’t buy any of the canned title templates that have come before. They’re kind of ridiculous. 🙂 However, the ability to do 3D text in the app has been really useful. I’m not talking about the extrusion and rotation, which is what everyone is focusing on. You’ve been able to do that forever in some way or another. It’s all about the lighting and surface modeling for me.
All the stuff I’m cutting in a job I’ve got in Pr has 3D titles made in X. The depth is set to 0, or maybe 1 at most. Text in Pr sucks, and “linking” to AE text, or having our gfx guy make stuff, takes more time than just doing stuff in X and exporting it. You can mock it all you want, but it looks great.
[Aindreas Gallagher] “FCPX is the world’s last best joke in terms of keyframing, and you’re all left blinking and trying to ignore it. It’s a brain damaged key frame system. The GUI exposing the keyframes is itself brain damaged.”
Have you tried 10.2? Didn’t think so. It’s getting better.
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[Scott Witthaus] “Damn, I had to wait through a really poor Adobe Cloud spot to see the 3D Bird…
“lol. me too! It was very interesting to hear the factual reasons to switch to Pr and not X. The video that follows the commercial is oddly appropriate. 🙂
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[Steve Connor] “Just about to post the same link! Can’t wait to get this”
Me too. Say what you will about FCP X, but the stuff you can do without leaving the app is pretty mind boggling. Yes, you need to spend a few extra bucks for plugins, but what’s available is kind of nuts. I don’t rent AE, and I’m sort of clueless in Motion. I’ve been using FCP X for all my graphics, compositing, baked in audio effects etc for the job I’ve been cutting in Pr lately. 😉
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[Noam Osband] “How often does X do it? More importantly, is it changeable?”
Everyone’s best guess seems to be about 10-15 minutes if you’ve made changes. In practice, as Andy points out, it doesn’t matter. You can pull the plug on your computer while you’re editing and whatever you were doing when it shutdown will be there. However, things do occasionally blow up, so in addition to the built in backup I recommend something like Backups for FCP (on the app store) or Digital Rebellion Pro Versioner. I use both. 🙂
I’ve needed to actually use a backup maybe once in 3 years, but I’m glad they were there. 🙂
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[John Davidson] “What forum, if not this one, would be better served by a good old fashioned bird?”
Ask and, um… you want me to email you this one as well for the collection? lol
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[John Davidson] “I think we need Emoji’s on the cow. Specifically we need to new bird emoji from Windows 10.”
Oh I see, the 3D poo wasn’t enough for you huh?
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[Michael Gissing] “This was all I could do thirty years ago to have multi track digital audio synced to picture. It was vey much modeled on the mag dubbers.”
Place I worked at was one of the first to get film projectors, mag dubbers, multitrack tape machines, video, and eventually the Otari DAW to sync. Worked really well, but you had to be careful about hitting replay too quickly. And being in the room with the mag machines during a mix was kind of terrifying. 😉
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[Michael Gissing] “Clearly designed for Ambisonic encoded sound environments.”
Where would such a thing exist?
[Michael Gissing] “Post with video however… This would not be a very easy interface to deal with.”
Agree, I just found it interesting. 🙂
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