So for the planetarium stuff I've been doing recently, where I'm often building up layers of animations additively, it's the only way I can assemble stuff at reasonable speed.īut the moment I want to do something Apple haven't considered (like, say, tweak the colour of an additive layer but clamp the blacks so they don't end up with negative values and screw up the rest of the comp) I'm stuffed. I can throw half a dozen 4K x 4K ProRes files on top of each other additively and hit play and it plays immediately. It's orders of magnitude faster than any other editing package. Just about everything I do (3D work usually) ends up going through FCP right at the very end of the process, just for final edit tweaks and minor colour correction: and it's purely because FCP is so goddamn fast. It's what I both love and hate about FCP. I think what's frustrated me about Motion is that it's so Apple-ish. There are a lot of basic concepts to learn either way, so it's more about what makes financial sense for your available time investment. Once you know what you're doing enough to feel like some things are hard to do, look at some AE tutorials on how to do those things, and see if you'd rather switch.Īlternatively, if you can dedicate a bunch of time to it in the first month, you could spend that $50 on a month of Creative Cloud and start there. If you're really just getting started, I'd recommend dropping the $50 on Motion and doing some tutorials to learn the concepts. ![]() But if you're going to use it regularly (whether for a couple of months or for years), the subscription model may make sense for you. So if you expect to dabble in it and want to have some fun every few months, paying once is probably best. FCPX is $300 Motion is $50 (and can export video on its own, without Final Cut). That said, one of the great things about the Apple tools is the pricing model. Then I got my hands on Premiere for real and realized it had everything I was missing.
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