Done With Motion

A recently completed project for a customer, done in Motion and Soundtrack Pro using the sound clip library and some filters.
http://www.kultfactory.com/AcrySof.htm
I especially liked the HUD effect that relates to their near and distance vision lenses. Keyframed in Motion. Some smaller read-outs were left off intentionally. I'm searching for a way to advance a counter (G-Force, Altimiter or Air Speed) based on advancing to the next frame. Currently they change manually every 6 frames or so as needed.
Cheers,
Andrew
G5 2.3 3.0 Gig RAM / G4 756 (10.2.8)   Mac OS X (10.4.5)   LaCie 19 Blue / LG 700s Monitor

Nice job, Andrew!
Check out Fun with Counters for some maybe useful stuff...
Patrick

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