A Fun Little Motion Project
A friend of mine is putting together a behind-the-scenes featurette for the DVD of his short film. In his film, he made extensive use of Apple’s Final Cut Pro 5 software for editing and Motion 2 for effects and motion graphics. For his featurette, he wanted to explain the integration, or round-trip, between these two applications. I volunteered to create a Motion project that would demonstrate the basic concept through the use of animated titles. In the featurette, this animated demonstration/title-card will be followed by in-depth real-world examples using his footage and workflow.The result can be seen here as a QuickTime file. As an aside: That movie is 720×480 resolution, 29.97fps, and 16 seconds long. It is a testament to the capabilities of the QuickTime H.264 codec that the resulting file is only 716k. Unbelievable! If your computer complains and won’t play the file, install QuickTime 7 (mac || windows) and it should play just fine.
If you have Motion 2 on your computer and wish to take a crack at my project — to alter it or see how it was done, the project is here.
