Apple's Motion Now Shipping

gz76 writes "Apple's high-performance motion graphic design and production application lets you explore new creative territory using self-propelled behavior animation, character-by-character title animation and a powerful new interface. Motion integrates seamlessly with Final Cut Pro HD and DVD Studio Pro 3, making it quicker and easier than ever to create motion graphics for film, video and DVDs. About time!"

Comments

Motion is awesome

[Nexum]

We got to get a sneak peek at WWDC this year, Motion is awesome for the price, the effects are just incredible.

Interestingly Apple are experimenting with the interface, everything can be controlled by gestures, which should please those die-hard fans of this control-method.

There are some things it won't do, I'm not a video-guy so I can't fully remember and I won't attempt to :) but there is room for a Motion 2. Having said that don't let that detract - this is an awesome product, I couldn't believe how easy it was to build simply jaw-dropping effects.

Might be worth the piffling $299 just to play with the thing even if you're not in video PP :)

Motion vs. AfterEffects

[spooje]

I've mucked around with Motion a little bit and in general it's a great app, but not yet mature. I still think AfterEffects 6.5 is a better buy with many more features.

It will be interesting to see what Adobe does with AfterEffects 7.0 and if they include Tiger's upcoming Core image functionality.