Re: AE Advantages over Motion?

that's a matter of debate... a can of worms I'm afraid to open myself.

On this forum, you'll likely hear After Effects as the choice. Well, duh. It's an After Effects forum.

I don't use Motion much yet. I am familiar and comfortable with the After Effects interface and toolset. However, there are REALLY cool built in functions of Motion (especially the latest version) that I could utilize much faster and easier than I can do things in After Effects. You can look at the Motion page on Apple's website for videos that show some of the capabilities of the program.

That being said, I think that After Effects is definitely more powerful. It is more flexible, offers more control over everything, and has a ton of very useful plugins and filters, and a ton of resources (that didn't exist when I first started with it) that make learning it much easier. Well, maybe not easier to learn than Motion, but certainly cheaper.

Easier to use does not equal better. Motion can do some cool stuff quickly, and it has a bright future as a compositing program for non-compositors (meaning video editors can pick it up more easily than using After Effects IMHO), but if you want to do really awesome stuff, with a rock solid toolset... can't beat After Effects.