Motion sucks.

I’ve been working with Apple’s Motion for a few days now, and I’ve got to say: IT sucks. As an after effects user, I’ve been experimenting with motion, mainly because there’s a program that can automatically edit text objects to create a character generator like interface for motion graphics. Unfortunately, Motion doesn’t have the same amount of flexibility that After Effects does.

For example, you can’t copy and paste keyframes. Instead, I’ve been creating a ton of “behaviors,” for tasks that I do frequently (which makes a lot of sense, actually, so I don’t mind.) The problem comes when I try to move an object that has behaviors applied to it. Typically, I’d like the entire object to move with the behaviors, but instead of doing that, Motion only moves the layer or the behavior. I’m sure I’ll have to do some sort of multiple select to do both, but damn, it’s frustrating. Bad motion graphic software design, that’s for sure. They got all the bells and whistles down (CG titling, MIDI interface, easy expressions through behaviors) but as for the important parts (copy/paste keyframes, UI) they lose.