[Kevin Camp]

Also, I’m not sure how important this is to you, but the RAM is not as easy to upgrade as it was in earlier iMacs:
https://www.macrumors.com/2017/12/14/imac-pro-ram-upgrade-apple/

It sounds like it can be done, but you’ll need to take it to a shop and have a tech install the RAM.

Kevin Camp
Art Director
KCPQ, KZJO & KRCW

[Kevin Camp]

it appears that the RAM can be upgraded after purchase, but evidently not as easily as the other iMacs:
https://www.macrumors.com/2017/12/14/imac-pro-ram-upgrade-apple/

Personally, I think i’d lean towards going with more RAM over VRAM unless you do a lot of 3D animation in an application that uses the GPU. But getting more VRAM now could better future-proof you machine… so it’s a trade off.

Kevin Camp
Art Director
KCPQ, KZJO & KRCW

[Kevin Camp]

since you can’t upgrade the video card in the iMac (unless that’s changed with the iMac Pro), i’d lean towards the getting the better GPU… you can alway upgrade the RAM later on.

but if you said you’d never want to have to upgrade the RAM, get more RAM… I feel RAM is still more important than GPU acceleration, though Adobe is leveraging the GPU more with just about every update.

Kevin Camp
Art Director
KCPQ, KZJO & KRCW

[Kevin Camp]

it’s a lot easier to upgrade the ram in an iMac than the cpus…. but i’m not sure how well the adobe products will take advantage of all 18 cores.

impressive benchmarks have already surfaced (geekbench, etc), but you might keep searching to see if you can find any application specific benchmarks for adobe and/or resolve over the next couple weeks.

Kevin Camp
Art Director
KCPQ, KZJO & KRCW

[Kevin Camp]

you would need to write (or find) a script…. you could have a script that when ran would take whatever you have selected in the project window, it would then create a new comp for each and add the text layer that would contain the footage information.

you could select the footage in the project window and drag them to the new comp icon, choose to add each sequence to a new comp, and then create an animation preset to create the text layer with the clip information… you would need to run that preset for each comp, but source name and frame rate information can be added via an expression on the text layer (which would be a part of the text animation preset). it’s not automatic, but once the preset is made, it would only take a few minutes to do all 25 of them.

Kevin Camp
Art Director
KCPQ, KZJO & KRCW

[Kevin Camp]

i don’t think you’ll be able to do it with wiggle paths

roughen edges can give a similar effect and it has an option to ‘loop cycles’ in the evolution options.

Kevin Camp
Art Director
KCPQ, KZJO & KRCW

[Kevin Camp]

I actually think it’s getting fairly close. I’d really like to see a ‘drop zone’-like function like there is with motion/final cut, so an editor can simply drop in footage or an image to replace a layer in the .mogrt/comp.

Kevin Camp
Art Director
KCPQ, KZJO & KRCW

[Kevin Camp]

if you need to add the route to that rendered clips, it’s likely going to be tough…

you”ll need to track that footage well enough that the route that will animate won’t slip. you might try AE’s 3d camera tracker, or possibly a planar track with Mocha. look for tutorials on each. I’d start with the 3d camera tracker. but i think either method will be an uphill battle.

the best way to do this would be to add/animate the route in the same software/plugin that created the map.

Kevin Camp
Art Director
KCPQ, KZJO & KRCW

[Kevin Camp]

by ‘praxis’ do you mean the ring in this clip:
https://youtu.be/RWIS7olVbGE?t=144

if so, try this:

• create new solid and add the circle effect, increase the radius to better fill the screen.
• add another circle effect to the same layer, set the blending mode (in the circle effect) to stencil alpha and increase the feather property and radius to make a ring.
• add the roughen edges effect.

if should start to resemble that ring.
if you animate the radii of the circles to expand at about the same rate and rotate the layer in 3d, I think you start to get close.

Kevin Camp
Art Director
KCPQ, KZJO & KRCW

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[Kevin Camp]

edible text is easy, keyframing the range selector i’m not sure about…

but to test is is pretty simple…

to create the .mogrt, in AE choose window>essential graphics to show the essential graphics panel.

open the comp wth the text, twirl down the text properties to get to the source text property. drag the source text property onto the essential graphics panel.

do the same for the range selector property.

where it says Untitled in the essential graphics panel, type what you want to call the .mogrt, then click export motion graphics template.

bring that to premiere and see if you can keyframe the range selector.

Kevin Camp
Art Director
KCPQ, KZJO & KRCW