David Bogie
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Once you get into Motion, you realize what fabulous things it can do for you. That takes a few weeks of frustration. Get the Motion books from APTS.
Once you get familiar with Motion, you will realize what fabulous things you can do in After Effects
You can make stuff to feed back into Motion. Or go the other way with interesting stuff from Motion to AE.
As was said earlier, your boss fell for the marketing BS from Apple. It will be up to you to convince him/her/them you’re smart enough to know what tool is appropriate for a particular job. You need them both. You will use them both on everything you do.
bogiesan
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> command+tab into FCP< This keystroke combo only reveals the application switcher in the Finder. bogiesan
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I don’t think you fill in the missing car with Motion directly. You would want to have that photographed as a clean plate so when the car disappears, the hole it leaves in the top layer is filled with the video from a lower layer. You coul,d of course, create some kind of clone of the missing car pixels but that would not be an efficient way of previsualizing the effect.
You might want to shoot the car as a model on a bluescreen stage or create an automobile model in a 3D app. both might be easier than trying to replace the pixels.
The Apple Training book for Motion 2.0 has a great piece on creating a flock of birds.
bogiesan
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Open Flash and export them as QT to the Animation or DV codecs.
If you don’t have Flash, find someone who does, like the guy who gave you the files.
If you’re going to be doing this often, get Flash.
I hate Flash.bogiesan
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> I NEED TO HAVE IT PUT TO ME STRAIGHT FORWARD AND ONLY THE BEST STUFF (AFFORDABLE W/I REASON)AND PERFECT FOR HIS NEW HOBBY. OH YA AND ITS A HOBBY NOT NECESSARILY A JOB YET…BUT HE’S WANTING IT TO GO IN THAT DIRECTION. HE’S WANTING TO MAKE VIDEO GAME INTROS???< Yar, 1. Stop shouting at us, it's rude. 2. Getting best stuff for a hobby is stupid. 3. The best stuff is not affordable. Your budget provides entry level gear at best. 4. Video game intros is not a field you just start making money at; gaming companies have very good producers. 4a. It's like buying a stock racing car before you know how to drive. 4b. It's like buying a rack of mountain climbing gear when you live in Florida and, besides, you don't really like to travel. 5. Your biggest investment should be in animation training and deep film production and effects creation long you buy stuff. 6. You asked for straight, here's the straight stuff: This is a waste of money. Put it in your IRA or your child's college fund. bogiesan This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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How do you think FCP can sync your clips for you? It cannot.
You must find an in point that is common to all clips. You can observe the audio waveforms and attempt to find a common peak or burst. If you have no way to sync the footage because it was not shot properly, you will not be able to use multicam.bogiesan
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Run to your local public library and check out a couple of the PC for Dummies-type books.
They are your only hope.Taking your PC down to zero is not as easy as reformatting your Macintosh. Not at all.
The experience will do you good, it’s quite humbling to be at the mercy of Microsoft. The additional computing power. ability to cruise the Net while doing real work on your Mac and the ability to open some of your client’s material instantly will be handy. Also, the Windows media tools will be fun to have around.
Umm, I do need to warn you: In just a few days you will not be happy with this machine’s speed, graphics abilities, RAM and drive capacity. You will start looking at the CompUSA and CircuitCity ads with more interest. You will begin to use phrases like “updated drivers” and “Where are those dot-ee-ex-ease?” in everyday speech.
You are doomed.
bogiesan
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Look for the Non-Designer Series by Robin Williams.
She starts with typography fundamentals and advances to the presentation of information in many media including print, Web, TV, online video and much more.If you have no backgrounding in graphics or text and typography, these are fabulous resources. Fun to read, excellent illustrations, great projects.
The advice and experience you gain translate directly to television. All you have to do is translate the pixel dimensions.
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Like Shayder says, you only need to change the layer’s position keyframes on the x axis.
The only reason to use your AI file as a 3D layer is if you have another layer on top or below it that interacts with shadows or other illusions of depth. It could be a great comp in 3D but you need to think it through first.
bogiesan
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My usual response:
You can place the route on a CC Sphere or Cylinder layer to give it some tremendous personality. It can look rather like a missile trajectory if you’re not careful but this gives you a curved shadow, too.You can animate the line with lots of different matte fillers such as light glints, radio waves, barber pole cycling animation, lightning bolts and others.
bogiesan
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