Jason Diebler
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“Is Motion powerful enough and stable enough to get the job done on a professional level??”
What program do you think Apple uses to make there spiffy iPod commercials?
Motion is great. I was using AE before, and I found the transition awkward at first, but once you get the hang, Motion can be blazing fast.
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If the “buzzing” came after it was sent back to FCP from Motion, go back into Motion and make sure your project settings are set to View > Full, Render Quality “Best”. You may be in “Draft” quality.
Also, in FCP, set your Sequence Settings Render Motion to “Best”.
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Make sure your group is designated “3D” not “2D”, otherwise it will look flat and will never move with your camera.
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Click on the little icon (that looks like an audio speaker) in the lower-left corner of your Sequence/Timeline window. Toggled on, it should reveal your Solo/Mute options… that should allow you to iso your audio.
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Why export your Motion clips from Motion separately? Why not export your sequence from FCP then go into Color?
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I’ve also heard (from an Apple Motion Pro trainer) that its better to use the Stabilize behavior in Motion than the Smooth Cam filter in FCP. Not exactly sure why or if there’s even a quality difference…
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You can get that trick with some compositing.
Double-up your video layers on V1 & V2. Use a “guassian” blur or “glow” on V1. Right-click and play around with your composite modes on V2 (screen/overlay perphaps). You may have to futz with your opacity levels on 1 or 2.
This will give you a wholly different stylized look, just be careful not to overdo it.
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Also go into your Sequence Settings and make Render Motion “Best” and Video Processing “Best”
Use san serif fonts, ’cause serif fonts don’t animate well.
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Copy, Right Click, Paste attributes – Select Basic Motion
Also you can make Motion Favorites to save and use again later.
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You may have to re-create the graph in Photoshop (unless your client has a psd version with separated layers).
You can’t really isolate the colors – if you key the colors they won’t simply disappear in your image, they will actually cut a hole in your image – revealing black. So you really need to recreate your graph I think.
Of course, there may be other workarounds. If its a bar graph, you could also reveal the bars by using a moving color solid layer. It might be easier (instead of recreating the graph w/ separate layers) to create a sort of mask that has the same color tone as your graph background layer. So long as you don’t have a gradient, texture, or a multicolor background this should work. Just set up keyframes to reveal through cropping or position changes.
Hope that makes sense.