Jim Kanter
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Brushes are stored as greyscale, but they paint with the foreground color. If the bulb has a variety of colors then you might save it as a layer in a “library” file that you can copy and paste from anytime you need it.
Jim Kanter,
Digital Film Institute
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Brushes are stored as greyscale, but they paint with the foreground color. If the bulb has a variety of colors then you might save it as a layer in a “library” file that you can copy and paste from anytime you need it.
Jim Kanter,
Digital Film Institute
http://www.dfilminst.com -
Motion is not as well integrated with Combustion as it is with After Effects.
You would have to export a QuickTime movie from Motion and bring it into Combustion to use it as you would any other video clip.
Motion 2 (M2) is nicely integrated into After Effects 6. An M2 project can be imported like a QT movie, but if you need to make changes you can open the M2 clip in an external editor (M2), make and save your changes, and when you return to AE it automatically updates the clip in your composition.
in either case, you are essentially working with a QT video clip.
Jim Kanter,
Digital Film Institute
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What would you want to see in such a book?
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Does your system meet all the minimum specs listed on Apple’s site? Have your downloaded and run their “check for Motion compatibility” utility available on their Motion support page?
Jim Kanter,
Digital Film Institute
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Performance also depends on what you are doing. If it’s heavy with particles and behaviors, the CPU (dual 2.0) is the culprit.
Jim Kanter,
Digital Film Institute
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Would help if you included an email address!
Jim Kanter,
Digital Film Institute
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Ah yes, the iMac. It’ll run Motion as you know, but not especially well. Compositing and filters are particularly dependent on the speed of the GPU and the amount of VRAM. The iMac is rather weak on both counts as well as the overall bus speed.
Jim Kanter,
Digital Film Institute
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Yes, set the anti-aliasing first.
To open a Motion project in FCP, save the Motion project and then import it into the FCP project as you would a video clip. It will appear in the browser and behave like a clip but wil need to be rendered to play at actual speed.
Jim Kanter,
Digital Film Institute
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There are no PCI to AGP adaptors that I know of.
Driving two monitors from the same video card will drop the performance of Motion. You will not be able to get the same frame rates when compositing many objects or layers since the video card RAM is split between the two monitors and can’t hold as much data as when driving a single monitor.
Jim Kanter,
Digital Film Institute
http://www.dfilminst.com