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I am making an explainer video for my small consulting company. I am very new to all of this but need to do this in-house. My question is, can I buy a template from a place like video hive and fully customize the movement and colors? Will a non-professional user be able to get up the learning curve to learn the aspects of doing so?
Macbook, Mac OS X (10.6.6)
Not sure what you mean, but most of use who do video training as a profession use ScreenFlow. Ripple Training just produced a training video course about using Screen Flow for training videos. AS for templates, not sure what you are looking for. A template of a training video? That doesn't exist. In the mean time, I'll have a "1st time user, bare bone basics" for Motion up in a couple of days here, to give you some ideas.
what Ben says …
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I'm no professional user of M5, just made me a few plug-ins/animated titles/generators for my FCPX' projects.
M5 has a steep learning curve!
As a beginner, you think, you have to do it all by 'key frames' until you realize the power & beauty of M5's Behaviors … in combo with a 'paint app', such as Pixelmator, which supports psd-format = delivering layers, you can create impressive animations within minutes ... ok, hours 😉
but ready-made templates for 'explainer videos' - never saw that??
You have a link to an example, what you like to accomplish? .....
I would not say Motion's learning curve is steep, just learning the basics is easy. I teach it regularly. Getting into the more advanced tools and functions just takes time, step-by-step.
Here is a video that covers the bare bone basics for beginner users.
If you're looking for templates, MotionVFX.com is the best place to go. But for a training video, there's no template for that.
BenB wrote:
. I teach it regularly.
... And I learn it regularly. 😉
THanks for your Tutorial - I should Check your Site more frequently.
PErhaps learning the 'buttons' isn't steep, but the way from "this is how it should Look like" to "done" is sometimes a bumpy For my narrow mind some things are not so intuitive as it could be. Anyhow: a must for any/most FCPX User. 😁
Explainer video for non-professional user
