Apple's Motion is worth a look-see

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jaredalv

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I finally took time to go through the Motion quicktour over on the Apple site. Pretty incredible stuff. I guess I've found the next thing my wife's gonna be whining about me spending money on.

http://www.apple.com/motion/quicktour/

Sorry to waste your time if you've already seen this.

Chico
 
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Make no mistake.  They always whine about something. Our film equipment is merely the Macguffin!
 
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Woah what happened to the post I posted in here only a little while ago...
 
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MacGuffin:

A MacGuffin is a plot device that holds no meaning or purpose of its own except to motivate the characters and advance the story. The term is usually used in films, especially thrillers. For instance, the briefcase in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction is a MacGuffin (and a nod to Kiss Me Deadly). The contents are never shown; that section of the plot is not about the briefcase so much as what happens because of it. In the film Ronin, 'the case' is also a classic MacGuffin.

The term "MacGuffin" was invented by Alfred Hitchcock, who made extensive use of MacGuffins in his films. One example of a MacGuffin in Hitchcock's movies is the bottle of "radioactive diamonds" in Notorious: it is the reason the story takes place, but it otherwise means nothing. The story could just as easily have used "uranium" (originally meant as the contents of the bottle), gold or extraordinary rare wine as the plot device.
 
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Motion looks awesome.

off the top of my head i could think of awesome ways to exploit that software. i love the ideas of not having to deal with keyframes.

the way apple markets it though, i prolly wouldn't use it for anything other then jobs where i needed to get stuff done on the fly.

but when considering it's possibilities in post for some of the ideas i usually have, it see it making those types of things much less time consuming and seemingly a lot more fun.
 
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