[Greg Janza]

What’s the motivation to downgrade? The Nvidia card is obviously superior. Instead of forcing yourself into a lower quality box, is it possible for you to upgrade your system?

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[Greg Janza]

[Tony West] “We are going to do our best to try and bring a little bit of normalcy to the lives of some folks while we commit to safety and beating this thing so we can all get back and most importantly protect the most vulnerable among us.”

Great statement. I watched the A’s v Giants last night and it was absolutely marvelous to see baseball back in action so thank you for your service to the game Tony.

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[Greg Janza]

[Robin S. Kurz] “So how often to you pull out AE of all things to do “basic” or “truly simple comps”? Ever? You wouldn’t just do them in PPro?”

Literally, all the time. I know there’s some people who like mogrts and use them inside of Premiere Pro but to me the endless level of customization available in AE makes it a no-brainer to do even simple comps there. And Walter is correct, comps play back just fine in AE. I have no issues playing back comps in real time in AE.

Also, AE projects are shared between motion graphics artists and editors on many projects and so it makes no logical sense to use Motion when most people are using AE as their primary motion graphics software.

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[Greg Janza]

[Dom Silverio] “TB4 needs to be introduced”

or not. NVMe’s are the future of storage and the speeds blow away any other option. Apple is currently offering a variety of NVMe options at double the price of what they’re actually worth of course.

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[Greg Janza]

[Bob Jordan] “transcoding HEVC files becomes a highly recommended method, especially if your files are in 4K HEVC and you don’t have a high-end computer.”

It doesn’t matter what kind of computer you have. HVEC and H264 files are not edit friendly codecs. All HVEC and H264 files should be either proxied or transcoded before editing in Premiere.

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[Greg Janza]

The question was whether people are using Motion. I’m sure there’s folks out there using the program and I’m sure they’re making great motion graphics with it. That’s not what was being asked. My interpretation of the original question was whether Motion is being used in the real world by professionals.

You volunteered that there’s a lot of projects that could very easily be done in Motion and that the program is inexpensive to boot. I’m sure that’s true. My point simply was that I personally haven’t worked with any motion graphics artists that use it and over the years, I’ve worked and collaborated with many companies and motion graphics artists in my market.

And I’m sure there’s a fair number of folks who use Motion and are happy to not be giving Adobe their money. Good for them. However, since Adobe CC is a nominal cost it’s kind of pointless to argue the cost savings.

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[Oliver Peters] “For example, if the majority of local artists use AE, then it’s easier for a client to use one artist for the original project and receive the project files upon completion. If there are changes months later and the original artist isn’t available, then the client can easily pass the revision on to a different artist.”

This is what I’m referring to when I say that in 25 years I’ve never encountered a Motion project or person. In our collaborative business ease of workflow is everything. I regularly receive motion graphics projects from motion graphics artists. Their talents are essential and I’m always appreciative of their work but often the end client requests small tweaks that I can do as the editor. Therefore, the collected AE project will be sent to me so that I can make changes to renders.

This workflow is very efficient and smooth. And yes, it’s also often that one motion graphics artist passes a project onto another artist and that too is easy and efficient when it’s an AE project because of the fact that AE is the industry standard program.

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[Greg Janza]

[Robin S. Kurz] ” I haven’t seen anything anyone has put together in AE for any average everyday production in the past many many years that they a) couldn’t have just as well done in Motion, and b) for not only in a fraction of the time, but also for a fraction of the cost, assuming they used Motion for more than 3 months (or just one month, depending on their subscription ?)”

I’m 25 years into my career and I’ve yet to encounter a single motion graphic artist who uses Motion. AE is the industry standard and since Adobe is platform agnostic AE will most likely remain the standard for the foreseeable future. And the arguments that Motion or FCPX are a more affordable solution are laughable at this point.

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[Greg Janza]

.mov is a wrapper.

Open the file in VLC or Quicktime and get info to see what the codec is.

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[Greg Janza]

Yes, your system should be able to work with 4k media. However, what format is the 4k media?

If you’re working with H264 4k media then it would make sense that your computer slows to a crawl with multiple layers because H264 is very CPU intensive.

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