[Ross Gerbasi]

As another RIT alum I had to chime in. Looks nice. Would be cool to see it filled in like a real rubik’s cube, but I am sure thats gonna be even more hell. 🙂

[Ross Gerbasi]

https://www.apple.com/pro/techniques/motionaftereffects/

This should help ya out

-ross

[Ross Gerbasi]

Hey all,

First Post on the CC forum. So please don’t attack to me too much :).

I have been working with AE, Motion and Shake for a while now, and honestly its not even a fair fight. I completely agree with Nik. In order to really create somewhat a battle you would have to combine Shake and Motion. Even then you are looking at the lack of a 3D camera.

Shake offers the great node structure. I love easily being able to see different levels of my composite and simply rearranging pieces with a nice linking interface. For compositing I think its extremely intuitive and very fast. Motion has a couple things that After Effects doesn’t, right out the box. Mainly a Simple Particle generator and the Replicator. Now you can do these with plugin’s and all that jazz BUT why? It’s really simple to drop motion project files into After Effects, not the render’s I mean actual project files. So create those effects in motion and then master everything in after effects. Motion has the speed and after effects will offer you the advanced features.

So my two cents…

Is something BETTER? nope…
Can you do everything in after effects you could with motion or shake? Yup.

So whats the solution?! Learn why these tools are good at what they do. The more knowledge you have about them the better you will know when to pull one of them out for a project. If you have the means to get them all, they are all amazing tools.

To answer the original post. If someone can’t see that there is reason to use different software for different problems they are crazy. They should never say “you have to do this in motion”. If its your job to deliver something let them know they hired ya to deliver the best quality product in the time frame. They should let you decide what software is going to make it happen.

sorry for the super long post 🙂 its my first so I had to get it out of my system.
You guys all rock here, thanks for all the tips, tricks and support!

-ross