Motion 5 video tutorials?

Check out Mark Spencer at www.applemotion.net or Ripple Training

Alan

Those are BOTH great tools, but cost $$$. Are there any FREE video tutorials out there that are worth watching? When is Lynda going to be supporting Motion 5 and FCPX?

Sal

Just Google "motion 5 tutorials" and click the top result.

There are plenty of free tutorials all over the place. Here is the current top search result for youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yPkhZ5jZ18

But there is currently nothing better than buying the Ripple Training stuff. $50 saved me tons of time and frustration.

salmanilla wrote:

Those are BOTH great tools, but cost $$$. Are there any FREE video tutorials out there that are worth watching? When is Lynda going to be supporting Motion 5 and FCPX?

Sal

Lynda.com also cost $$$

My 2 cents:

If you just want to learn a specific effect, the free stuff on You Tube, etc. can come in handy.

On the other hand, if you're really interested in learning Motion, spend the $$$ on tutorials from experts like Mark Spencer, Lynda.com, et al.

Russ

Here's a couple of nice tutorials.

http://youtu.be/qSts1EmJ_0s

http://youtu.be/WSqGjTtOico

http://library.creativecow.net/tutorials/applemotion

All FREE stuff:

Use iTunes podcasts - search MacBreak Studio; Anything by Mark Spencer (applemotion.net has a lot of material that is free [http://applemotion.net/macbreak-studio/ ].) [Also: these will be automatically saved in your : HomeFolder / Music / iTunes / iTunes Media / Podcasts / MacBreak Studio folder for referencing later!]

Since much of the functionality of Motion hasn't really changed that much since Motion 3 (when 3D was introduced), you can youtube search for tutorials for Motion 3, 4 & 5. Particularly check for AppleShakeGuru's

channel [http://youtube.com/appleshakeguru] - he put out several dozen over a period of a couple of years (not so much lately - nothing on M5 so far, tho). I found them very useful.

Don't be afraid to dive in head first — Just practicing along with a bunch of these tutorials will get you up and running pretty quickly (pretty much how I did it!) Probably the most difficult part about using Motion is getting used to the interface -you just need to learn where all the stuff is that you need to do the stuff you want. If you're familiar at all with photoshop and layers, there's a lot in Motion that is very similar, including filters and effects; blending modes; etc. So, as a very broad comparison, Motion is like Photoshop, except for compositing (and animating [more efficiently]) the layers in 3D space, complete with lights and cameras (you provide the action 😉 )

Not to blow my own horn... I don't have the knack for making good instructional videos like Mark does, but I have a few tutorials on my youtube channel (http://youtube.com/fxmah) in the Tutorials playlist [All in HD for full screen viewing - it helps!] Some are pretty simple and some are rather complex (I wouldn't rate them "for beginners", but don't let that put you off!) — there should be a fairly wide assortment of different kinds of topics in Motion covered over the span of all of them to uncover a lot of the "hidden" functionalities.

HTH

Motion 5 is a "major" upgrade insofar as it has been completely rewritten in 64-bit code and it's role in the FCPX editing workflow has radically changed. Previous versions of Motion were designed for "round-tripping". Motion 5 is designed for Effect design and publishing. The idea is to create material that is reusable instead of using it for a project by project basis. In previous versions of Motion, video editors had to learn Motion to get in, make changes and get out. With Motion 5, designers can deal with Motion, editors only ever have to deal with the parameters the designers published for them to use, and editors never have to learn anything about or deal with Motion at all if they don't want to. Other than the ability to publish paramters to FCPX, Motion 5 is not all that different than version 4 or even 3. As for moving over to After Effects? I can't help you there, I've never used it, but I've seen some tutorials. It looks quite a bit more powerful for creating special effects than Motion is.

FCPX on the other hand is ... awesome. FCP7, IMO, pales in comparison. I've been able to do so much more work in FCPX since I've started using it. What used to take 5 days in FCP7, takes about a day in FCPX. FCPX can be adapted to your workflow, whereas with FCP7, *you* have to adapt to its workflow... if that makes sense.

Anyone know how to get Motion 5 to play back more smoothly. I have an Imac with 8gigs of ram, but it seems the motion 5 play back a little slow when I have more than a few effects running at once. Any thoughts of why? I've set the render settings to draft, and quarter, and it still plays back slower than a turtle! thanks!