Chris Figat
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Hey Noah, I’ve just picked up a 2.16ghz iMac with the 128mb video card and i’m upgrading to 3gb of RAM. I haven’t upgraded to Final Cut Studio 2 yet, should i stick with running Motion 2 for now or do you think Motion 3 will run decently?
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Visual Literacy is a good one Steve, and even though it is focused on print pieces i think it totally applies to motion design and is awesome for making you look at a design problem and then see how else it can be approached. form, color, and composition are consistent in some way or another across all design, and i think a lot people who get into video and multimedia do so with very little knowledge of design and become simply software operators.
The other design book i really like is The Elements of Graphic Design: Space, Unity, Page Architecture, and Type by Alexander White, really gives a great understanding of the different design elements and how they work together.
chris
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I’m still waiting for Volume I to become re-available so i can order it 🙂
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Sure is Peter, i was thinking it would be rather similar to the Intel Mini as my old iBook is identical inside to the original Mini. and i want one 🙂
that being said, anyone run the UBs of Motion/Final Cut on an Intel Mini? I’m curious what the performance is like and would be like on the MacBook.
chris
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the dvMatte plug-in for After Effects is also very good, better than Keylight for DV footage in my experiments.
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Easiest way is probably just take the original file and run it through QT pro and resize/recompress it there. not sure why resizing in motion isn’t changing the filesize though.
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Would it be hard to make it black, cut/paste, then adjust the opacity in illustrator?
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To be honest I never have thought of Motion as a pro compositing app…good for some graphic/text animation and particle work, but final comps are done with Motion sequences in AE or shake…or do others have a different opinion?
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Thanks guys. I don’t do a lot of video yet here at work so don’t know that I can add much to this machine for now but it’s good to know. appreciate the info.
chris
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Very close Jim, figured it out.
i had xkeys installed to open a few other programs via shortcuts with my function keys. even though Motion 2 wasn’t bothered by it at all and worked perfectly for some reason Motion 1 has an issue with it. deleted all my prefs for xkeys and they all work great now, yay.
thanks for the tip, i’m back to Motion-ing 🙂
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