Keep Your Friends Close
Apple have posted a new mini-tutorial to their Pro site, “Import Motion Files Into Adobe After Effects”. The process is incredibly straightforward, in fact the biggest sticking point is that you require Motion and After Effects 6.5 or later installed on the same system! If you spend your time working on visual effects in either application, it might be fun to see what you can do when you combine them.
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Well hopefully at least maybe this shows some sense of relationship between the two now. There was a lot speculation going around at one point that Adobe was getting ready to adopt the Avid mentality of release for PC first and then release for Mac when we feel like it. Which for regular users of something such as Photoshop, would be a horrific event.
It’s an odd one. I hear so many stories about antagonism between the two companies, yet both are at pains to point out they’re friendly competitors.
DMN have brief but interesting interview with Steve Killsky from Adobe from the time Motion made its debut. He discusses the decisions that lead to the demise of Premiere on the Mac and why he’s confident that they’ll continue to support AFX cross-platform.
His comments reflect my experience. A lot of people working on a budget were looking for an alternative to Premiere when FCP was released. I’m not sure the same can be said about Motion—AFX users tend to love that app!
People needed an alternative to Premiere frankly until very recently. I’ve kept an eye on Premiere for a while and not until Pro 2.0 has it looked like something I’d consider using at all. But of course FCP had got to quite a good state of affairs by the time Pro 2.0 ever got released, so essentially they missed the Mac boat.
I think Motion would, perhaps will, take much longer to push AE off of the platform. I think a big cause for this is a lack of real competitor (in function and price) to AE for so long, combined with its quality for so long. Additionally, there is a very strong base of AE plug-ins out there. So its that much stronger of a resource now. But from what I’ve seen of Motion I think it works as a solid compliment, not competitor, to AE.