Motion Tutorials

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1 Creating Customized Motion Templates
If you thought the pre-built templates that came with Motion were cool, how about building your own? This video tutorial by CreativeCow.net Contributing Editor Stephen Smith will show you what you need to know to create your own custom Motion templates.
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2 Painting with Motion
Painting in Final Cut can be a lot of fun without the mess. This tutorial by Contributing Editor Stephen Smith showcases Motion's new paint feature. Learn how it can be used to create a brush stroke across your video. So enjoy the great tips in the video tutorial, “Painting with Motion.”
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3 Write-on Effects in Motion
Mark shows us how to create animated text that magically writes itself on the screen.
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4 Photoshop and Motion Workflow - Smart Objects
Mark Spencer shows us how to use Smart Objects in Photoshop in order to retain layer styles and other editable properties in Motion.
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5 Keyframe Stretching in Motion
So you’ve created a great animation in Motion. You’ve tweaked every motion path, set each keyframe interpolation, and pulled and pushed on every bezier handle to get the timing and flow just right. Then your client tells you they love it but it needs to last 2 seconds longer. Before you pull your hair repositioning hundreds of keyframes by hand, check out this video for a quick tip on a handy keyframe editing tool that could save you load of time - and hair.
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6 Animating a poster effect
It's nearing the end of election season, so I'll give you something that will distract you from all that. There have been tons of posters made with a 2 or 3 tone effect made of Obama. I'm sure you've seen them somewhere. This tutorial will show you how to create that effect in Motion, and then how to animate that.
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7 Getting the Most out of Motion
One of the most enjoyable features of Motion is its ability to play back even moderately complex projects in real time - allowing for a type of interactive development process where you can add and animate layers while the project plays back.
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8 diamond sphere [Apple Motion3]
Diamond Sphere video tutorial is now available. I am sure you are going to love this one as it is pretty easy to make it.
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9 Throwing Photos in 3D
In this turorial, Mark Spencer will show you how to build an animated title sequence that simulates photos being thrown onto a surface.
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10 Animating Photoshop Layers in Motion Redux
If you missed my original video tutorial that shows you how to take a multi-layered Photoshop file, quickly and easily spread the layers out in z-space in Motion, and then animate a camera through the layers, check it out here. I had a few follow-up questions from viewers, so this video provides a few more tips that I hope help everyone out.
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