Apple Motion 5 tutorial

You can use a graphic that you have already created and bring it into Motion 5 and animate it, so that it will move, appear or disappear in the timeline of your motion video. In your Motion projects you can do this with keyframes and sometimes the better option is to use a behaviour. In this Apple Motion 5 tutorial I show how you can add a couple of backgrounds to give an individual effect to your animation. You can use a video clip as a background or you might want to use a particle emitter. Here in this movie I was able to use a particle emitter to give the effect of movement within space, as in outer space.

Creating video animations with Apple Motion 5

It is quite amazing that an application as powerful as Motion 5 costs as little as it does, when you consider the stunning video effects that it is possible to create. Seeing as the price is so low there is no need to consider a Motion 5 free download. There are Motion 5 templates available that are already built into the application when you get it. It is also possible to create your own templates, or even if you wish, to buy third-party Motion 5 templates.

Commander ZED flies thanks to Apple Motion 5

Check out the Wizardgold YouTube channel for a whole load of videos which include some that show you how to do animation. You can watch the videos to learn how to make video animation graphics with Motion 5. When you get used to using the application it is not that difficult to create a custom animation in a very short time. Digital animation video graphic animation applications like Motion 5 can be quite daunting when you are making your first video graphic animation. Hopefully, with the Apple Motion 5 tutorial I have provided you will get a quick start into using this excellent application from Apple.

Learning about Apple Motion 5 Behaviours

Within the application there are 11 different times of behaviour that you can apply and set various parameters. It is possible to apply the behaviours mixing and matching effects in order to create your custom video animation graphics. It is possible to as the behaviours to create your animation clips with objects that you use from within Motion 5 as well as with graphics that you have created in other art and graphics applications. Enjoy the Apple Motion 5 tutorial and have a go at creating your own video graphic animations. Leave a comment below in the comment section if there are things within Motion 5 that you are struggling with and you would like to get some help.

Apple Motion tutorials over on the Wizardgold channel at YouTube and other apple tutorials. I will not be doing any motion 4 tutorials as I have just got going with the latest version. I have a big interest in animated graphics and I will be trying out other applications for the purpose of making more motion graphics tutorials. What would you like to do with a motion graphics video. Let me know and I will do my best to make some motion graphics videos to explain how to do things.

Origins of Commander Zed

Commander Zed was created by the artist WishPiddle.

Cool text effects – Motion 5 your animated text maker

When you are using Motion 5 new will be able to take advantage of the many built-in text effects. You can create cool text effects by using the behaviours and you can combine it with using keyframes to add extra movement. Motion 5 does an excellent job as an animated text creator and there are a number of styles that you can apply to the text also.

Animated text effects such as wiggly text

You can have your text in one spot and having movements that will wiggle the text or have it dance. Other things you can do with a text could be to make it into a cartoon text or a blinking text and numerous other movements. In the video below you will see that I use the behaviours which do a substitute effect where other letters shown before the correct letter appears and a behaviour which has the text flying in from the side of the screen. Motion 5 is a powerful animated text generator tool.

Positioning of the behaviours in the animation in Motion 5

When you are creating your animated text effects in the timeline of your animation you can drop a behaviour into the timeline so that the animation happens at a specific point. So you might use a text animation that has letters appearing and rotating in at the beginning of the animation and then have a different behaviour to deal with what happens at the end of your cool text effect. Some animated text effects in the motion 5 animated text creator will be more suited to using either in the middle of an animation or something that happens across the whole of the timeline.

Altering the behaviour of your text in the Motion 5 Inspector

It is possible for you to adjust your cool text effects in the Motion 5 by going to the Inspector. Depending upon the type of animated text effects that you have chosen you will have controls made available that you can adjust. For example it may be that you can alter the amount of rotation that is used within the behaviour. If you are creating some text that is a blinking text or is a content text then there can be some alterations you can use to affect how that animated text maker behaviour works. With some of the behaviours you will see that there are onscreen controls available to further enhance the movement of the text.

Distorted cool text effects in Motion 5

When you using motion five as an animated text creator to get your cool text effects then you will see that you can distort the shape of the letters. You can make it so that the shapes turn of the text on the screen into rubber, bouncy cartoon text that goes all over the place. These cool text animations can take place so that stuff happens for the whole length of the timeline or you can have it so that the animation happens to one letter at a time like a Mexican wave.

Animated text effects to make a video bug

Sometimes when you are watching television you will see a video bug in one of the corners of the screen. It may be that it is just a stationary and translucent icon or text which tells you which channel you are watching. That would be suitable for being there permanently on the screen. There are other locations where there will be an animated text up into the screen for two or three seconds that might be used as a reminder of other TV programmes coming up next. You might use a video bug of this kind to put in a you Tube video in order to remind the viewer to click and the like button or to subscribe to your YouTube channel. When you are using Motion 5 as an animated text creator you can have a lot of fun creating cool text effects to make your videos more fun looking.

Use behaviors in Motion 5 when making video

Using key frames is good but using behaviours can be better. You can get the same thing but with less work with a behaviour and you can even put a few behaviours together and have a rig. I will be making a video to show how to use a rig in Motion. Have a look now at this video to see the basics of keyframes and behaviours used individually. There are a lot of things to consider when you are making a video for YouTube. I have noticed too that the old school types still like to talk about cutting video like would be done in the old days of using a blade to splice actual film stock. Digital is pretty amazing and you couldn’t go back to analogue for making video. Keyframing for motion video is pretty easy with Motion 5 on the Mac.

Making video for Youtube

Mostly when I am making video for Youtube I am screencasting. Now I have the Canon 600D which has video capabilities I can do more video using clips for that. I have been learning to use the extra software you can get for the Canon T3i / 600D called Magic Lantern and with that it is even possible to do HDR video. There are so many settings to play with that it really does take some time to get into working out what is the best way to set things up.

Back to screencasting for YouTube

I use ScreenFlow and I can do most of my editing in that excellent Mac screencast application and even export directly out of it to YouTube. I prefer to do some editing in Final Cut Pro X when I am making video, as I have some extras set up ready to go in a project that I use as a template.

What is video motion or x motion ?