Motion Now Shipping

[huevohead]

Apple is making me sad

I agree this is awesome news that Motion finally came out and the announcment of the Production Suite makes the release that much sweeter.

What sucks for me is that my very first Mac is a Dual 2.5 thats delayed till Septemeber 3rd. I ordered final cut pro when I placed my order on the 15th of July and not thinking anything of it, I clicked the option to send items as they become available. I get Final Cut Pro on the 22nd of July and it has been sitting in my room waiting for my Computer which is still almost 1 month off from coming. Unfortuneatly since I recieved FCP on the 22nd and the Production Suite was announced on the 10 of August (18 days after i received FCP) I am screwed. I know getting Motion for 200 dollars is still a good deal, but it really rubs me the wrong way to know that it didnt really matter when I recieved FCP since I cant use it until my G5 gets here, and know If I had just checked the option to wait untill all parts are ready I could have just traded the Production Suite for the same price FCP.
Looks like I will have to try to sell FCP brand new somewhere and hope that I can make enough to make the difference of the production suite less than $200.
Oh well

 

[CmdrLaForge]

I agree this is awesome news that Motion finally came out and the announcment of the Production Suite makes the release that much sweeter.

What sucks for me is that my very first Mac is a Dual 2.5 thats delayed till Septemeber 3rd. I ordered final cut pro when I placed my order on the 15th of July and not thinking anything of it, I clicked the option to send items as they become available. I get Final Cut Pro on the 22nd of July and it has been sitting in my room waiting for my Computer which is still almost 1 month off from coming. Unfortuneatly since I recieved FCP on the 22nd and the Production Suite was announced on the 10 of August (18 days after i received FCP) I am screwed. I know getting Motion for 200 dollars is still a good deal, but it really rubs me the wrong way to know that it didnt really matter when I recieved FCP since I cant use it until my G5 gets here, and know If I had just checked the option to wait untill all parts are ready I could have just traded the Production Suite for the same price FCP.
Looks like I will have to try to sell FCP brand new somewhere and hope that I can make enough to make the difference of the production suite less than $200.
Oh well

Call Apple. If you just bought a 2.5 PowerMac they should do something for you and maybe they will.

 

[huevohead]

Yeah, I tried calling Apple as soon as I saw the Production Suite thinking they would be easy going about just doing a clean swap, but the Apple Representative said since i have had FCP for more than 14 days it was too late and "have a nice day".
I'm was hoping the E-mail I sent them would get further up the chain and get my situation some more attention, but it has now been about 72 hours and I have not yet recieved a reply.

 

[CmdrLaForge]

Yeah, I tried calling Apple as soon as I saw the Production Suite thinking they would be easy going about just doing a clean swap, but the Apple Representative said since i have had FCP for more than 14 days it was too late and "have a nice day".
I'm was hoping the E-mail I sent them would get further up the chain and get my situation some more attention, but it has now been about 72 hours and I have not yet recieved a reply.

Really sorry to hear that. I hoped Apple would have here a more customer friendly approach.

 

[ART5000]

INSTALLED MOTION!! first impressions

Just installed Motion!
first impressions:

stable, fast!, beautiful interface, easy to use, great pre-sets

this app is great for trailer bumbers, film bumbers, DVD intro pages etc.

The only thing I would of loved was for it to have more export options.
But all in all it's a great app for the price.

I'm creating some futuristic **** that's kickin some butt

 

[CmdrLaForge]

Just installed Motion!
first impressions:

stable, fast!, beautiful interface, easy to use, great pre-sets

this app is great for trailer bumbers, film bumbers, DVD intro pages etc.

The only thing I would of loved was for it to have more export options.
But all in all it's a great app for the price.

I'm creating some futuristic **** that's kickin some butt

Sounds good, what is your machine ? Maybe you can give more feedback ?

Thanks

 

[NickFalk]

You'll be able to choke Motion as well... same way as After Effects does if you don't pre-comp stuff and have ridiculous numbers of layers all doing their thing.

Hardly. The only review I've read so far was run on a dual G4. With the programs maximum of 256 layers it was still realtime...

That's the revolution!

 

[iGav]

Hardly. The only review I've read so far was run on a dual G4. With the programs maximum of 256 layers it was still realtime...

That's the revolution!

It depends what those layers contain though.

Motion still requires the footage to be offloaded into RAM before you even get anywhere near realtime, much the same way as you would in After Effects. The difference is then how Motion handles the ability to add a filter to a clip, this is where it trumps After Effects. Motion maintains the clip in RAM, After Effects doesn't.

It'll still choke if you get too demanding of it though.

It's ability to offload effects onto the GPU is the only revolution. Its lack of features is a bigger issue for pro-motion designers.