Once I had exported the individual shots out of Shake with their mattes intact, I was able to simply composite the shot over the background that I wanted in Final Cut Pro. The codec I used to export was Animation and the file format – QuickTime.
One could argue that the compositing could have been done wholly in Shake, but in my case I was working with individual shots that I wanted to edit in a timeline, also I wanted to be able to change the background when I wanted to in that timeline and not have do it in every single Shake project. Besides I just felt more comfortable editing in Final Cut Pro.
As for my little rotating countdown cube,
1. Downloaded a Motion project of a 3D cube that had drop zones for all its sides.
2. Dropped the height
3. Extended the project to 10 minutes
4. Added a reasonable spin that would not be distracting.
5. Used a color matte generator in FCP with a Time Code Generator that I cropped to suit my needs.
6. Put my generated countdown from 10 minutes to zero in the sides of the rotating object.
The rest of the objects that I used were simply overlaid where I wanted to.
The Backgound was done in Motion by Dylan, very cooly done indeed.
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