Tuesday, 24 April 2018

Studio Workshops - Graphics

In our workshop today I was introduced to the programme I would be using to overlay the graphics to the live feed.

Motion 4 



My first experience with motion was not a good one, I found when I uploaded the graphics to the computer which was being used the programme would crash frequently, after some trial and error we found that the issue was the the graphics were animated.

When it was just a still image the programme was fine, however when the image would move the programme would stutter heavily or crash. This was dissapointing as I had animated the graphics to slide in and out from the edge of the screen. I made a note of the format that I had rendered the graphics and begun rendering different formats for our next session. I also tried creating the graphics within Motion 4 itself, however I ran into the same issue as before. It would have been an issue in anycase as if I was only able to create graphics on that machine it would drastically reduce the time I had available to create the graphics.

At home I found relatevly little information of the best formats to use for Motion 4, the ones I did find was to use Apple Pro Res 422 as it keeps the quality. I didnt really want to lower the quality of the graphics as that wouldnt look good on a professional project such as this.

I couldnt even download Motion 4 onto my mac to practice as they have a new version out now and there is no legal way to get the older version that I found.


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