This week on Final Cut Pro X Under 5 Minutes, Steve Martin from Ripple Training shows us how easy it ease to augment Final Cut’s features by using Motion. Even if you’ve never touched Motion before, you’ll be able to create simple animated bullet builds for explains points in a video.
This week on Final Cut Pro X Under 5 Minutes, Steve Martin from Ripple Training shows us how easy it ease to augment Final Cut’s features by using Motion. Even if you’ve never touched Motion before, you’ll be able to create simple animated bullet builds for explains points in a video.
If you are editing with Final Cut Pro X and have yet to learn Motion, I highly recommend doing so. At $50, this powerful motion graphics and visual effects software is an indispensable part of FCP X, especially as your skills grow. As editors, we are constantly called upon by our clients to do more and more in addition to editing: create titles, key shots, add special effects, composite shots over animated background, add callouts to video, and more. Motion can do all these things and much more. Many folks don’t realize that the titles, transitions, effects and generators that are built into Final Cut Pro X (of which there are hundreds) were all built with Motion; you can modify them with Motion; and you can build your own with Motion.
Much has been made of the loss of “round-tripping” between Motion and Final Cut that was available in the Pre-FCP X days. While I agree that a basic round-tripping process would be useful in order to design a title or lower third in the context of a specific video clip, or to be able to track a shot, the fact is that Motion and Final Cut Pro X are more integrated than ever becuase Motion is the foundation for all the effects inside Final Cut. In fact, I think of Motion as a kind of development environment for make templates of titles, transitions, and effects for Final Cut.
If you are at all intrigued, check out Steve’s video above (as well as our other many free videos such as MacBreak Studio), download Motion, and give it a try.