Simon Ubsdell
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[Oliver Peters] “But is anyone seriously using it for motion graphics?”
Yes, I’ve come across dozens of professional users scattered across the world who are doing fairly high level motion graphics work with Motion so they do exist, though I suspect they are mostly small operations who can choose their own workflows. I also think I’ve “met” more serious Motion users outside North America for what that’s worth. I know of almost nobody using it professionally in my own market of the UK.
[Oliver Peters] “Almost everything I encounter was created in After Effects.”
I think this is probably the sticking point for a lot of situations. If you have to cope with interchange, then it makes no sense not to use the industry standard. I’ve had situations where I’ve built something in Motion not expecting to have to share it and then been faced with having to rebuild it in After Effects when I discover that I am being asked to do just that.
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[Oliver Peters] “And my story for DV magazine/CreativePlanetNetwork”
Great article, thanks Oliver!
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[John Rofrano] “No, this plug-in is specifically for removing reverb. What you want is noise reduction. “
He’s probably thinking of this: https://fxfactory.com/info/audiodenoise/
CrumplePop AudioDenoise – Clean up hiss and background noise automatically from your audio.
There is a free trial version so you can try it out and see if it does the job.
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You should not have a favourite weapon, or any other exaggerated preference for that matter. To become overly attached to one weapon is as bad as not knowing it sufficiently well. You should not imitate others, but use those weapons which suit you, and which you can handle properly. It is bad for both commanders and troops to entertain likes and dislikes. Pragmatic thinking is essential. These are things you must learn thoroughly.
From the Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi.
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Great article, thanks for sharing.
“The truth is, every program is going to have things you like and don’t like. They are all missing some feature you will need someday. There is definitely some other piece of software out there that can do that one thing or other better than your software.”
Your link didn’t work for some reason, so here it is again.
The healthy thing about the visual effects world is that you have to learn so many different tools, which themselves keep changing and evolving and leapfrogging each other all the time, that it doesn’t make sense to develop a sentimental attachment to anything.
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[Andrew Kimery] “Whenever I come into a situation where there are already established workflows I take the time to learn the workflows, learn why the workflows are what they are, learn what has been tried in the past (and why it didn’t catch on) and learn what hasn’t been tried yet. Then, if possible, I’ll start doing some testing/experimenting on my own and if it looks positive I’ll share with others what’ve I’ve been doing and get their feedback.”
This is an interesting point. I’ve trained/supervised/managed a number of editors over the years and quite a few have developed what I would call “bad habits” that I’ve tentatively tried to talk them out of – at first. In the end, it occurred to me that there were reasons to do with “comfort” and other such indefinables that meant it was probably best not to insist on a change of practice even where it seemed objectively preferable. As you say, the first step is trying to get under the skin of the person you’re trying to help, while appreciating that the best you can do is advise. Lecturing is almost always counter-productive …
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I didn’t say you couldn’t do it, I said that multicam is the “preferred” route. If you think through the implications of what functionality you have with MC versus CC, I think you’ll understand what I’m saying.
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[Chris Frantz] “You could just have easily started with your master clip in a compound clip. If you start your workflow with that you should be able to swap your master at anytime without even relinking and it would ripple down.
“I just wanted to point out to anyone who is thinking of using this method that the preferred way of doing it is with a multicam clip – not a compound clip – for reasons which I am sure will be obvious.
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[Michael Gissing] “Thank goodness Resolve also has smart force conform based on TC.”
The beauty of the Resolve force conform method is that different clips from one source in the timeline can be conformed to different new media – in other words you’re not relinking the a single source clip globally to a new source, you’re doing it within the context of the timeline instances. It’s an amazingly powerful option.
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[Chris Frantz] “You could just have easily started with your master clip in a compound clip. If you start your workflow with that you should be able to swap your master at anytime without even relinking and it would ripple down.”
Yes, I am familiar with this workflow too – however, we are handing off between different editing applications (this is necessary to us, so it can’t be discounted from the equation) and not necessarily starting in FCP X every time, so this is again not the ideal solution.
Believe me, it’s not as though I haven’t worked through these problems in FCP X – I use it all the time despite the workarounds that I need to implement. The bottom line is that force relink would make a huge difference to our ability to use FCP X within our business.
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