Here’s a first look at the new motion tracking behaviors in Motion 3.
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Boris Continuum Complete’s Snow filter is an auto-animated snow generator. The filter offers extensive options and allows you to create drifts or make flakes pile up along the edges of an alpha channel.
Download the Free Snow Filter for Apple Final Cut Pro and Motion
Download the Free Snow Filter for Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects
The free …
Here’s a “first look” at lights in Motion 3.
These “first looks” are simply improvised explorations, and bear only slight resemblance to our tutorial products, which are painstakingly scripted and polished over many months for an optimum learning experience, then presented in our next-generation chunkalized™ hands-on learning environment. But they are cool, anyway. 
To view (non-chunkalized) excerpts from our tutorial …
Michael Wohl’s Motion PowerStart is a comprehensive training course for Motion containing three clear, fun, and practical hands-on tutorials plus a section on integrating Motion with other Apple programs. It was written by Michael Wohl, a member of the official Motion documentation team, along with Josh
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After Effects is the software from whence a new art form, motion graphics, was born.
Motion offers many advantages and disadvantages to AE. The two can work together, AE users can use Motion to generate layers for their AE compositions.
Owners of both, before starting many projects, will have to pause and consider which program to use.
So when would you use Motion?
- projects
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If your projects are going to be delivered on DVD or broadcast, it’s important to have an accurate studio monitor on your desk so you can see your project as your viewers will see it while you’re editing.
Why?
First, many editing programs show you a low quality "proxy" of your timeline, so you can’t judge color …
Notable points:
- Final Cut Studio 2 will be available in May for $1,299, or $499 for the upgrade
- Final Cut Pro 6 has an Open Format Timeline that lets editors mix and match virtually any video format and frame-rate in a single Timeline without transcoding. Hope this works with nesting
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Nattress Big Box of Tricks includes the existing filters from the discontinued Nattress Set 1 and Set 2, as well as several new filters.
The package consists of eight groups of filters, one group of generators and one group of transitions:
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FxFactory Pro is first choice for any FxFactory user looking for the richest combination of plug-ins and …
To separate a subject from a background, you can either:
1. shoot in front of a greenscreen/bluescreen, then key out the background in postproduction
You can also key out a background that is much darker or brighter than your subject, but it usually takes a little more work, because often your subject will have pixels that …
Dave Nagel puts the new 13" MacBook and MacBook Pro through some tests with Final Cut Pro and Motion.
Bottom line, the Intel portables edge out a G5 dual 2 GHz desktop…
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More speed tests at Bare Feats
A user experience with Final Cut pro on a Macbook …
Apple is offering some good deals to get the whole bundle if you own a previous version of any of the individual apps:
Upgrade from…
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Peter Wiggins has created some interesting Motion templates for download here.
Motion is a software program from Apple that was released in August 2004.
It is used primarily for motion graphics, e.g., animated intro sequences, though it can be used for all kinds of things from special effects to be layered with video to physics demonstrations, titling, generating textures for 3D apps or whatever.
Motion is particularly strong in what it can do …
Download this compatibility checker and run it.
Apple recommends one of the following graphics cards:
- ATI Radeon X850 XT
- ATI Radeon X800 XT
- ATI Radeon X600 XT or X600 Pro
- ATI Radeon 9800 XT or 9800 Pro
- ATI Radeon 9700 Pro
- ATI Radeon 9600 XT or 9600 Pro
- ATI Mobility Radeon 9700
- ATI Mobility Radeon 9600
- NVIDIA GeForce Quadro FX 4500
- NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT
- NVIDIA GeForce 6600 and 6600
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