printed manual ?

I personally cannot recommend an actual book on paper.

Books like those are a rare breed and with good reason. To write a good book on Motion is gigantic endeavor, and for sure one that is bound to become obsoleted before it is complete. To print a 1000+ page book like that, which would cost far more than the application itself, and be obsolete before it came out of the printing presses... well, not a great idea.

That said, the Motion manual (online) is excellent and very easy to navigate.

Give it a look: Apple - Support - Manuals

The only printed material I'm aware of is the official

Apple Pro Training Series. Motion 5

Peach Pit, written by <sigh 😉 > Mark Spencer

(yep the one from rippeltraining)

avail at amazon et all

The Peachpit book is a mess, it is horrible, it isn't even used by Apple anymore (they dropped Motion training).

The user manual is available as an ebook and online.

http://finalcutprox.guru/support/supportlinks/

There's not really much "good" out for Motion in book form.

BenB wrote:

The Peachpit book is a mess, it is horrible, ...

… in your opinion.

Mileage will vary …

BenB wrote:

...it isn't even used by Apple anymore (they dropped Motion training).

... because of the book??

egg, hen ... 😉

I've taught that book more times than you can imagine. It is the worst way to learn Motion. Most of us trainers, when Motion course was offered, deviated from that book a lot. I speak from teaching hundreds of students from that same book. Ripple videos are way better. Avoid the book, it can be very confusing.