Steve Martin
Steve Martin is the president and founder of Ripple Training. Steve has over 16 years of experience as an editor, producer and trainer. He has taught workshops at NAB, Macworld, DV Expo, and the American Film Institute. He is also a post-production consultant for Disney, Fox Sports and Canon to name a few, and is a lead instructor for Apple's Certified Training (ACT) program.
Brian Gary
An award winning writer, producer and director, Brian Gary is founder and CEO of Flying Chaucer Films LLC of Los Angeles and Flying Chaucer Productions LLC in New Orleans. Under those shingles, Brian Gary has created a wide array of content for television, theatrical release and the Web. Accomplished editor rounds out his filmmaker's skill-set and he lectures nationwide as a certified Final Cut Pro instructor.
Mark Spencer
Mark Spencer is a bay area-based producer, editor, teacher and writer. He runs a website dedicated to Motion users (www.applemotion.net). Mark is also an Apple-certified instructor teaching regularly at BAVC, Stanford University and MacWorld. Mark is the author of the Apple Pro Training Series book Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Studio, contributing author of the APTS Motion book, and author of the Motion Visual Quickstart Guide, all from Peachpit Press.
Andrew Balis
Anrew Balis is a cinematographer, editor, post production consultant and Apple certified instructor teaching classes in Final Cut Pro to industry professionals at Moviola Education. He is the author of Ripple Training's Color Correction in Final Cut Pro and Color Grading in Color DVD-ROM.
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Thursday, September 17, 2009
Mark Spencer | 09/17- 07:45 AM
Learn Motion 4’s Powerful New Features Quickly
Ripple Training has just released my latest tutorial, Motion 4 Up and Running. See excerpts from the training and get all the info at Ripple’s site.
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Mark Spencer | 07/23- 09:01 AM
Final Cut 7, Motion 4, Soundtrack Pro 3, Color 1.5, Compressor 3.5, DVDSP 4
Today Apple announced an update to its Final Cut Studio pro apps suite.
Info on Apple’s site: http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/
On Ripple Training, we have 19 movies covering all aspects of the new features:
http://www.rippletraining.com/provideoapps.html
Thursday, April 02, 2009
Mark Spencer | 04/02- 06:03 PM
How a Feature Film Editor uses Motion for VFX
Billy Fox returns to MacBreak Studio, and I talk with him about how he used Motion to create a shot “out of nothing” for the feature film Traitor starring Don Cheadle. The movie is embedded on the next page - click the Play Video link below, please give the movie a moment to load.
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Monday, March 09, 2009
Mark Spencer | 03/09- 07:55 PM
Billy Fox on MacBreak Studio
Veteran Hollywood film editor Billy Fox shows us how he uses Motion to create a VFX shot for the international thriller Traitor.
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Tuesday, March 03, 2009
Mark Spencer | 03/03- 11:16 AM
Quick Animated Glints
A short video tutorial that shows a quick and dirty way to create nice animated “glints” for your text.
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Mark Spencer | 02/11- 10:58 AM
Professionally designed templates for Final Cut Pro and Motion
Students, customers, and colleagues have been asking me for years to design templates for Motion and Final Cut Pro. I always resisted, because I didn’t want to do it unless I could do something that would really stand out.
Over the past several months I have been working with Ripple Training and a professional design team to do just that.
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Mark Spencer | 11/12- 11:30 AM
Scaling Keyframes to Retime Your Animation
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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Monday, October 27, 2008
Mark Spencer | 10/27- 12:34 PM
12 Tips for Improving Motion’s Performance
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. In fact, the real-time playback feels so intuitive and natural after only a short time that it becomes quite addictive - to the point where it can be really annoying when the performance begins to slow down.
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Jeff Foster
Edit and Optimize 2D Stereo Pairs from a 3D Video Camera or Twin Cameras with a Modified Stereo 3D Rig in After Effects CS5.5
Allan Tépper
A contracted article, sponsored by Datavideo Corporation.
Matt Jeppsen
Getting watery trick shots with this DSLR housing
Mark Spencer
Setting Up a Rig in Motion 5 on MacBreak Studio
Mark Spencer
7 Professional Editors Share Their FCP X Experiences
Rich Young
A news roundup
Clint Milby
New Cage Fits New Camera Like A Glove
Scott Simmons
If you haven’t heard they have moved from FCP7 to Media Composer
Scott Simmons
The ease of setup and managing multicam clips makes this the best FCPX update yet
Mark Spencer
Multicamera Editing in Final Cut Pro X
David Torno
Create numerical readouts for use in HUD style graphics.
Terence Curren
The best event for keeping up to speed in the post production world.
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