The easiest way? Create a solid and apply a gradient effect. In the gradient panel I usually save a whole bunch of presets in the drop down. that way I can just re use them in lots of projects.
Here's something I'm trying to learn: In the Motion Library, there are Replicators/Transitional. I've been looking for something about using them in Motion but can't find anything. I've fiddled around with them trying to get them to work as a transition but can't crack it? I assume something gets keyed into the white area? Thought maybe luma keying would work but I tried for hours with no luck. Thanks.
I have been putting off learning motion for a while now due to how complicated it looked. After watching your videos I am super excited at the possibilities of improving my work. Thank you so much for the introduction tutorials, they were easy to follow and very educational.
Great tutorial again. I probably need a couple of weeks / month to explore this 🧐 Didn’t mind the fast speed sometimes, because, like always, you generate millions of ideas in my mind! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for checking g this lesson out. 3D layers can be a little mind bending, but once you figure it out it really opens up a lot more possibilities of what you can do. -Stanislaw Luberda AV-Ultra
it's 2022 first i would like to say thanks, then your video quality is amazing it's like this days in 2022 , then wow man you are amazing i'm wondering if you still gonna do some more tutorials ?
Great job.A bit complicated material to grasp but it surely worth to invest some time in practicing the powerful techniques.Thank you Stanislav very much.
All of your videos are outstanding but this one I can see using right away. There are a lot of steps that you went through very quickly. I look forward to your online in-depth paid courses. For now, thank you so much. I will dissect thus one and put it to use
Appreciate the feedback- A little look ahead but the first ten lessons are really lead into further lessons0 for example since lesson 9 deals with 3D layers- I have about 10 more lessons just about 3d Layers planned. The same is true with most of the other lessons. You can think of these first 10 as major chapter heading and then will continue to drill down into the topics a bit further down the road. I purposefully move quickly through these topics as most videos I see move very slowly. I figure people can rewind or jump to specific places, however your feedback is important to me, and I'll keep it in mind. Due to the holiday season, and people comments and interest- I've decided to ramp these lessons back up again, and plan on uploading more lessons in the very near future. Thanks again for reaching out. -Stanislaw
AV-Ultra if I have questions about motion and fcpx and you are willing to address them. How may I get a hold of you? I do small video production side jobs but I’m always looking to improve and enhance my skills. Your tutorials and great. If I need occasional help if I get stuck or have an idea that I need to know where to start might you be available?
While I can't guarantee my availability since I'm working full time (and then some usually) if it's something small or a quick question I'd be more than happy to help. I have an email listed in the about section or on my website. If you have more of a deeper technical or specific help to workshop out workflows or specific tasks you might be better hiring out someone who has more availability to help you out quicker. Otherwise there's lots of online groups and forums where you might be ale to get some extra help. Thanks for watching.
Loved this one. It would be amazing to see more camera tutorials. I see you just uploaded a new one on lights... can't wait to check it out. Thanks for everything!
Alan- I have lessons on lights, shadows, and cameras. Be sure to check my other uploads. Thanks for the comment and I’m happy you found this lesson useful.
Hi Stanislav. I really enjoy your tutorials a lot. They made it possible that I can create my own intros and animations. Fantastic instructor and fantastic product. One very small thing about your videos that, at least for me is a little bit annoying and this is that you properly merge a couple of videos to one and especially the transition from one to the other. I would love if there was a small moment of quietness in between, let’s say half a second. This would give the viewers a chance to just realize what you said before. But anyway, I’m looking forward to see your next episode. Thanks a lot!
Awesome as always! I love your tutorials.. I hope you could also create tutorial(s) for Camera Motion Tracking with hologram effects in the future! looking forward for it.
Hi Stanislaw, possible you can help? At 2:34, in Motion Tutorial #9 (3D), you are able to use the Z position to move the Area 2 group behind Area 1 (the text group). I cannot duplicate this when following along with the video. The only way I can get the circle behind the text is to move the text group ("Area 1") up one layer so it is above Area 2. I know this is wrong, because nothing regarding the Light or Camera works afterwards. Can you shed any light on this - am I missing a checkbox, or something, that is not allowing me to duplicate this action? Much thanks for your time, and response.
@@AVUltra With much reading, and pondering, I discovered the problem: I was using 3D text for my Title. As soon as I turned OFF 3D text effects, Area 2 worked as it should. Amazing! Just a little checkbox caused such a brouhaha! Thanks for your time.
thanks so much - i have a project that is seemingly all in 3d but some layers still act like they're in 2d and show up in layer order, not 3d space. sometimes even two different color solids or shapes won't intersect properly. any ideas would be helpful, thanks!!
This is really impressive stuff, but ironically, the best thing I learned from this video was "hit O to trim". Do you have any idea how long I've spent using Edit/Split to isolate individual frames of a video sequence?? :-)
I can second this, shortcuts are life and if they are brought up in usage context is the best way to learn them. When I started after effects many many years ago it was painful, learning the most useful shortcuts over what would be a 6+ months working period (via projects, Andrew Kramer tutorials, etc), that’s when creativity could be poured in with a lot less friction. I would be down to hear any shortcut that could be pressed besides the menu option. Makes me want to rewatch the tutorials and search for the corresponding shortcuts for creating a camera, a fill layer, a drop zone, maybe some of the most used effects? So on and so forth
Hi Stanislaw, Awesomely helpful tutorial. Hey, so I've found this really useful to add a 3D dolly-out feel into a photo of a dinner table setting in a room, and I've got it working pretty well. The table has some glassware on it, so when I created the FG layer in photoshop I gave them a bit of opacity so I could see the room BG through them, all looking great so far. Now what I really want to do to make it more awesome is create a glass distortion effect through the glassware as they move past the BG image, I've tried all sorts of things, but I can't even get my masks to 'stick' to the foreground layer - as the camera moves, the image masks stay put, not moving with the layer they are nested to. Any thoughts? Thanks, Jimmy
Hi Stanislaw, thanks for your reply, here's a link to the comp: ua-cam.com/video/3glYuQK3b78/v-deo.html - so I'm trying to add some glass distortion to the background (curtain) layer, but caused by the movement of the foreground layer in 3D space, specifically the champagne glasses and the candle jars. Any thoughts? J
These videos are very helpful! I have found myself stuck on something frustrating, however. When I am trying to mimic what you're doing with my own layers, the text never appears to be visibly blocked by the other layers even when I move the text 'behind' them in 3d space. You can always see the text layer as if it is in front of the background layer in 3d space.
Double check that the text is in a 3D group and not 2D. It will be in the inspector and group panel. If not that, start smaller. Take a shape and text and camera and try getting the text behind the shape. It’s probably just one click away. Good luck, I’m sure you’ll get it. 👍
At 8.05 where you talk about adding a floor throught the Add Object /Generators / Image Generators / Gradient I don't seem to have that at all, all that shows up are Generators and Text Generators submenus so I'm stuck! Running Motion 5.4.5 so maybe something changed?
@@AVUltra I have the same problem, there is no option to download additional content. I also downloaded Motion content directly from Apple and still nothing. I'll keep searching, but is it possible to bundle the generators from this series into a downloadable package?
Just found you lol and think your tutorials are amazing. The link above does not contain the 'Lesson 9 start' files just the 'end' ones. I realise this video was created nearly 4 years ago but wonder where I can get the 'Start" files
To simulate the roughness of a surface blurring it’s reflection works perfectly fine... now to make it next level, putting a ‘roughness map’ that would modulate that blurry reflection at different places on the surface would make it look epic (and many surface properties like the specular light would like wider and dimmer, pretty much a blur on a very bright tiny spot)... is there a way to put map on the reflection blurriness? I guess it could be faked by having two duplicate planes, one somewhat blurry, the other somewhat sharper, a mask to blend between the two.
Absolutely 100% possible. Think about how you would do this in AE. Either a precomp with a blend mode or a mask right? Groups in motion are basically just precomps they just look a little different and the UI kinda sucks right now. But I would put a subgroup in and you could place anything in there and all the transformations etc would like up exactly like a precomp in AE. Hope that helps!
Hi Stanislaw, thank for your tutorials, they are really helpful for my beginning steps in motion. and I have a question: I created an animation with 2 text layers and I want each layer to be affected by one camera movement. now bot cameras cross affect both layers. so how do I link a camera to one text without having it influence other text layer? (I gave both texts with their respective parameters separated in 2 groups). finding this out would really help, thanx!!
Yeah without seeing the project I can’t really much help. I don’t know what you mean having each text affected by one camera. Your cameras will “see” everything in your scene. Maybe make a separate project for each text layer. Good luck. Thanks for watching..
Hey there and thanks for your Question! The short answer is "no, not really" The reason being is that Motion doesn't have a way to do any real geometry outside of the half baked 3D text meaning it cant bend things or create curves across 2D planes. Effectively everything is like "postcards" where its all flat and can only be flat. The Longer answer is- you can absolutely make it LOOK like its curved, which is a technique that is super powerful and kinda the key to a LOT of other kinds of VFX and really cool effects. As a quick example say take a plain 3D drop zone that like moving around a scene. If you "group that in its own group" it effectively becomes a layer inside a layer. Then you can use a fisheye filter which will bend the image to make it look like its curved when really its just a trick. But thats the BIG secret to every movie from Star Wars, to any other Disney movie, is how can we make it LOOK like it doing something more than it is. It really is truly how most effects are made. I'm currently putting things together on the back end that go after these specific topics, but I cant talk about them right now (as it's going to take me a while to build all these things to share 100% free) and questions like yours make me so excited to try and work on them faster. Thanks for your question and I hope it helps. -Stanislaw
@@AVUltra Thank you for your response. I found a plugin that does a number of curve video tricks. There is a number of problems with it: 1) the plugin didn't come with any documentation to know how it operates, so I essentially have to teach myself. 2) for at least one of the tricks the plugin does, namely a Double Cylinder, when I exported the video it came out much darker than it was in Motion 5. And even after I took that video into Motion and put a Brightness filter on it, it still exported dark... When I used the 3D drop zone patch of this plugin - which essentially is the reason I got it - though the exported video's foreground is the correct color, the sky was a much darker color. This leads me to ask if it is possible that some information about the original layers in Motion 5 survives the export? The sky was another layer or actually 2 layers than the foreground layer. I was thinking that if some information survived in the exported video concerning layers might account for why the program is treating layers different, even after an export is produced...
Without seeing the video or the plugin I don't have a way to help you. Contact the manufacturer of the plugin as they will have more information. Good luck.
Wow Stanislaw, had to slow this one down and still it was a bit fast for me to keep up. So far this lesson is the toughest one. I sense maybe I won't be using 3D layers very often, as it looks really tough. My objective for learning Apple Motion is to allow me to animate my whiteboard animations after they've been drawn. If you have any ideas for that this will be cool. I am looking to achieve the effect as shown in this video: ua-cam.com/video/12XG-joFRBY/v-deo.html - Any suggestions you may have would be awesome. Thank you so much for your tutorials, they've made such a difference for me already.
Micheal- Thanks for the comment and the question. I'll agree that 3D layers are a complex topic. My goal with this particular lesson was to give a broad stroke overview of the different techniques and principles of 3D layers. I break down these different topics in the Camera lessons and a few more. Perhaps that will give a little more insight? As far as your question about the whiteboard animation, That something I would use behaviors on. the hand isnt "really drawing anything" and is just moving across the screen and the items are being revealed via Masking or Image Masks. I cover both of these items in other lessons if you are looking for more information. Otherwise what I would recommend is picking up a couple image packs built specifically for whiteboard animation styles and experiment with revealing them via masks. Heres a shortcut tp my lesson on image Masks- ua-cam.com/video/Jkeq6Cql0OU/v-deo.html Hope that helps! -S
Changing the quality and removing a lot of the render flags like depth of field and lighting can drastically improve your experience. Try this- Built out your scene composition as a rough in on the lowest settings. Draft mode, and quarter Rez, remove all flags. Then when thats solid, go in and do the detail work on the frame level on full quality. Doing short ram previews you should help. Ram can be an issue once you start getting into Motion. Think of motion as kinda a crazy powerful motion graphics platform that just happens to run on stock hardware. Def pushes the limits in some situations.
Dear sir, a fine tutorial though I really recommend when editing your tutorial film that you make breathing gaps in between your spoken sentences. It makes it terriply stressful to listen to. Literally unbearable. Yours truly...
Thanks for your comment. This video is from a couple years ago and I've changed that in further videos. otherwise please check out some other tutorials by other people if this is a serious issue for you?
If theres specific things you are looking to learn in Motion- be sure to leave a comment and let me know.
-Stanislaw
AV-Ultra Hey, what’s the easiest/best way to work with/manipulate gradients in motion..?
The easiest way? Create a solid and apply a gradient effect.
In the gradient panel I usually save a whole bunch of presets in the drop down. that way I can just re use them in lots of projects.
Here's something I'm trying to learn: In the Motion Library, there are Replicators/Transitional. I've been looking for something about using them in Motion but can't find anything. I've fiddled around with them trying to get them to work as a transition but can't crack it? I assume something gets keyed into the white area? Thought maybe luma keying would work but I tried for hours with no luck. Thanks.
thanks again so much for the tips, it's like every video you not only teach but you're really great at inspiring
amazing video thanks.Is it possible to create 3D city environment in apple motion with Mo2 plug in? I would pay for such a tutorial.. Thanks!
everyday, you just make my day. I am so happy with your tutorials. thank you.
The way you present this is crazy good.
ZERO dislikes. That's the way this tut should be.
Thanks for the comment. Appreciate the kind words.
I have been putting off learning motion for a while now due to how complicated it looked. After watching your videos I am super excited at the possibilities of improving my work. Thank you so much for the introduction tutorials, they were easy to follow and very educational.
😀 Thank you, it inspired me to take another look at Motion.
Great tutorial again. I probably need a couple of weeks / month to explore this 🧐
Didn’t mind the fast speed sometimes, because, like always, you generate millions of ideas in my mind!
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for checking g this lesson out.
3D layers can be a little mind bending, but once you figure it out it really opens up a lot more possibilities of what you can do.
-Stanislaw Luberda
AV-Ultra
it's 2022 first i would like to say thanks, then your video quality is amazing it's like this days in 2022 , then wow man you are amazing i'm wondering if you still gonna do some more tutorials ?
Incredibly Amazing !!
amazing tutorial thank you!
Great stuff as always. Very professional tutorials.
Hope you've learned a lot. 3D layers are a big topic. Apple just placed 3D object support so looks like its time to make more of these.
AV-Ultra I was gonna try 3D stuff a new intro I’m making but it is still a bit complex for me right now haha
Great job.A bit complicated material to grasp but it surely worth to invest some time in practicing the powerful techniques.Thank you Stanislav very much.
All of your videos are outstanding but this one I can see using right away. There are a lot of steps that you went through very quickly. I look forward to your online in-depth paid courses. For now, thank you so much. I will dissect thus one and put it to use
Appreciate the feedback-
A little look ahead but the first ten lessons are really lead into further lessons0 for example since lesson 9 deals with 3D layers- I have about 10 more lessons just about 3d Layers planned. The same is true with most of the other lessons. You can think of these first 10 as major chapter heading and then will continue to drill down into the topics a bit further down the road.
I purposefully move quickly through these topics as most videos I see move very slowly.
I figure people can rewind or jump to specific places, however your feedback is important to me, and I'll keep it in mind.
Due to the holiday season, and people comments and interest- I've decided to ramp these lessons back up again, and plan on uploading more lessons in the very near future.
Thanks again for reaching out.
-Stanislaw
AV-Ultra if I have questions about motion and fcpx and you are willing to address them. How may I get a hold of you? I do small video production side jobs but I’m always looking to improve and enhance my skills. Your tutorials and great. If I need occasional help if I get stuck or have an idea that I need to know where to start might you be available?
While I can't guarantee my availability since I'm working full time (and then some usually) if it's something small or a quick question I'd be more than happy to help. I have an email listed in the about section or on my website.
If you have more of a deeper technical or specific help to workshop out workflows or specific tasks you might be better hiring out someone who has more availability to help you out quicker.
Otherwise there's lots of online groups and forums where you might be ale to get some extra help.
Thanks for watching.
Loved this one. It would be amazing to see more camera tutorials. I see you just uploaded a new one on lights... can't wait to check it out. Thanks for everything!
Lesson 12 is about cameras and depth of fields.
Thanks for watching- my goal is to do 100.
Would love to see a more in depth tutorial about camera as lights! Thanks for these!
Alan- I have lessons on lights, shadows, and cameras. Be sure to check my other uploads. Thanks for the comment and I’m happy you found this lesson useful.
Thank you so much!!!Your videos are super helpful! Thanks!!🎻🌈💍
Your tutorials are dope dude! Thanks for this
Hi Stanislav. I really enjoy your tutorials a lot. They made it possible that I can create my own intros and animations. Fantastic instructor and fantastic product. One very small thing about your videos that, at least for me is a little bit annoying and this is that you properly merge a couple of videos to one and especially the transition from one to the other. I would love if there was a small moment of quietness in between, let’s say half a second. This would give the viewers a chance to just realize what you said before. But anyway, I’m looking forward to see your next episode. Thanks a lot!
Thanks for the suggestion. I have made note of it. Also there no v in my name, it’s a w. Common misconception.
I'm so sorry, Stanislaw! Turns out that Motion is easier to learn than names, right?
Thanks. I look forward to using this video to learn.
Thanks for watching- Im ramping up my motion lessons so expect more in the coming weeks.
Awesome as always! I love your tutorials.. I hope you could also create tutorial(s) for Camera Motion Tracking with hologram effects in the future! looking forward for it.
Great suggestions!
Hi Stanislaw, possible you can help? At 2:34, in Motion Tutorial #9 (3D), you are able to use the Z position to move the Area 2 group behind Area 1 (the text group). I cannot duplicate this when following along with the video. The only way I can get the circle behind the text is to move the text group ("Area 1") up one layer so it is above Area 2. I know this is wrong, because nothing regarding the Light or Camera works afterwards. Can you shed any light on this - am I missing a checkbox, or something, that is not allowing me to duplicate this action? Much thanks for your time, and response.
Make sure if you are using z position - the group is a 3D group.
Without seeing the project- can’t really help.
@@AVUltra With much reading, and pondering, I discovered the problem: I was using 3D text for my Title. As soon as I turned OFF 3D text effects, Area 2 worked as it should. Amazing! Just a little checkbox caused such a brouhaha! Thanks for your time.
@@redrokz7238 This is exactly the answer I was looking for, thank you!!
thanks so much - i have a project that is seemingly all in 3d but some layers still act like they're in 2d and show up in layer order, not 3d space. sometimes even two different color solids or shapes won't intersect properly. any ideas would be helpful, thanks!!
This is really impressive stuff, but ironically, the best thing I learned from this video was "hit O to trim". Do you have any idea how long I've spent using Edit/Split to isolate individual frames of a video sequence?? :-)
I can second this, shortcuts are life and if they are brought up in usage context is the best way to learn them.
When I started after effects many many years ago it was painful, learning the most useful shortcuts over what would be a 6+ months working period (via projects, Andrew Kramer tutorials, etc), that’s when creativity could be poured in with a lot less friction.
I would be down to hear any shortcut that could be pressed besides the menu option. Makes me want to rewatch the tutorials and search for the corresponding shortcuts for creating a camera, a fill layer, a drop zone, maybe some of the most used effects? So on and so forth
Hi Stanislaw,
Awesomely helpful tutorial. Hey, so I've found this really useful to add a 3D dolly-out feel into a photo of a dinner table setting in a room, and I've got it working pretty well. The table has some glassware on it, so when I created the FG layer in photoshop I gave them a bit of opacity so I could see the room BG through them, all looking great so far. Now what I really want to do to make it more awesome is create a glass distortion effect through the glassware as they move past the BG image, I've tried all sorts of things, but I can't even get my masks to 'stick' to the foreground layer - as the camera moves, the image masks stay put, not moving with the layer they are nested to. Any thoughts? Thanks, Jimmy
Like anything like this- its really challenging to troubleshoot items like this without being able to see it. Apologies I cant help more.
-S
Hi Stanislaw, thanks for your reply, here's a link to the comp: ua-cam.com/video/3glYuQK3b78/v-deo.html - so I'm trying to add some glass distortion to the background (curtain) layer, but caused by the movement of the foreground layer in 3D space, specifically the champagne glasses and the candle jars. Any thoughts? J
These videos are very helpful! I have found myself stuck on something frustrating, however. When I am trying to mimic what you're doing with my own layers, the text never appears to be visibly blocked by the other layers even when I move the text 'behind' them in 3d space. You can always see the text layer as if it is in front of the background layer in 3d space.
Double check that the text is in a 3D group and not 2D.
It will be in the inspector and group panel. If not that, start smaller.
Take a shape and text and camera and try getting the text behind the shape.
It’s probably just one click away.
Good luck, I’m sure you’ll get it. 👍
thanks you
At 8.05 where you talk about adding a floor throught the Add Object /Generators / Image Generators / Gradient I don't seem to have that at all, all that shows up are Generators and Text Generators submenus so I'm stuck! Running Motion 5.4.5 so maybe something changed?
Download additional content from the file menu. There’s a ton of stuff in there.
@@AVUltra Thanks for the reply but I think it's all downloaded already as the option in the menu for downloading additional content is greyed out.
@@AVUltra I have the same problem, there is no option to download additional content. I also downloaded Motion content directly from Apple and still nothing. I'll keep searching, but is it possible to bundle the generators from this series into a downloadable package?
@@AVUltra nevermind, I figured it out - they are all grouped under the same "generators" tab, not listed separately.
Check under Generators > Generators, thats where i found it
Just found you lol and think your tutorials are amazing. The link above does not contain the 'Lesson 9 start' files just the 'end' ones. I realise this video was created nearly 4 years ago but wonder where I can get the 'Start" files
I’ll see if I can find it.
Usually with these I actually do the END first and just reset it to nothing at the start. Thanks for the heads up.
To simulate the roughness of a surface blurring it’s reflection works perfectly fine... now to make it next level, putting a ‘roughness map’ that would modulate that blurry reflection at different places on the surface would make it look epic (and many surface properties like the specular light would like wider and dimmer, pretty much a blur on a very bright tiny spot)... is there a way to put map on the reflection blurriness? I guess it could be faked by having two duplicate planes, one somewhat blurry, the other somewhat sharper, a mask to blend between the two.
Absolutely 100% possible. Think about how you would do this in AE. Either a precomp with a blend mode or a mask right? Groups in motion are basically just precomps they just look a little different and the UI kinda sucks right now. But I would put a subgroup in and you could place anything in there and all the transformations etc would like up exactly like a precomp in AE. Hope that helps!
Hi Stanislaw, thank for your tutorials, they are really helpful for my beginning steps in motion. and I have a question: I created an animation with 2 text layers and I want each layer to be affected by one camera movement. now bot cameras cross affect both layers. so how do I link a camera to one text without having it influence other text layer? (I gave both texts with their respective parameters separated in 2 groups). finding this out would really help, thanx!!
Yeah without seeing the project I can’t really much help. I don’t know what you mean having each text affected by one camera. Your cameras will “see” everything in your scene.
Maybe make a separate project for each text layer.
Good luck. Thanks for watching..
thanx a lot @@AVUltra
Sorry i cant help you more with this.
If theres anything else I can help with let me know.
-S
I am not able to properly configure the Camera . How can I get in touch with you.
You just kinda did?
I get to questions when I can.
Is there a way to curve a video in 3D space?
Hey there and thanks for your Question!
The short answer is "no, not really"
The reason being is that Motion doesn't have a way to do any real geometry outside of the half baked 3D text meaning it cant bend things or create curves across 2D planes.
Effectively everything is like "postcards" where its all flat and can only be flat.
The Longer answer is- you can absolutely make it LOOK like its curved, which is a technique that is super powerful and kinda the key to a LOT of other kinds of VFX and really cool effects.
As a quick example say take a plain 3D drop zone that like moving around a scene. If you "group that in its own group" it effectively becomes a layer inside a layer. Then you can use a fisheye filter which will bend the image to make it look like its curved when really its just a trick. But thats the BIG secret to every movie from Star Wars, to any other Disney movie, is how can we make it LOOK like it doing something more than it is.
It really is truly how most effects are made.
I'm currently putting things together on the back end that go after these specific topics, but I cant talk about them right now (as it's going to take me a while to build all these things to share 100% free) and questions like yours make me so excited to try and work on them faster.
Thanks for your question and I hope it helps.
-Stanislaw
@@AVUltra Thank you for your response. I found a plugin that does a number of curve video tricks. There is a number of problems with it: 1) the plugin didn't come with any documentation to know how it operates, so I essentially have to teach myself. 2) for at least one of the tricks the plugin does, namely a Double Cylinder, when I exported the video it came out much darker than it was in Motion 5. And even after I took that video into Motion and put a Brightness filter on it, it still exported dark...
When I used the 3D drop zone patch of this plugin - which essentially is the reason I got it - though the exported video's foreground is the correct color, the sky was a much darker color. This leads me to ask if it is possible that some information about the original layers in Motion 5 survives the export? The sky was another layer or actually 2 layers than the foreground layer. I was thinking that if some information survived in the exported video concerning layers might account for why the program is treating layers different, even after an export is produced...
Without seeing the video or the plugin I don't have a way to help you. Contact the manufacturer of the plugin as they will have more information.
Good luck.
Wow Stanislaw, had to slow this one down and still it was a bit fast for me to keep up. So far this lesson is the toughest one. I sense maybe I won't be using 3D layers very often, as it looks really tough. My objective for learning Apple Motion is to allow me to animate my whiteboard animations after they've been drawn. If you have any ideas for that this will be cool. I am looking to achieve the effect as shown in this video: ua-cam.com/video/12XG-joFRBY/v-deo.html - Any suggestions you may have would be awesome. Thank you so much for your tutorials, they've made such a difference for me already.
Micheal-
Thanks for the comment and the question.
I'll agree that 3D layers are a complex topic. My goal with this particular lesson was to give a broad stroke overview of the different techniques and principles of 3D layers.
I break down these different topics in the Camera lessons and a few more. Perhaps that will give a little more insight?
As far as your question about the whiteboard animation, That something I would use behaviors on. the hand isnt "really drawing anything" and is just moving across the screen and the items are being revealed via Masking or Image Masks.
I cover both of these items in other lessons if you are looking for more information.
Otherwise what I would recommend is picking up a couple image packs built specifically for whiteboard animation styles and experiment with revealing them via masks.
Heres a shortcut tp my lesson on image Masks- ua-cam.com/video/Jkeq6Cql0OU/v-deo.html
Hope that helps!
-S
Thank you so much, that's very helpful to know and I look forward to those other lectures and the masks one too. Best, M
I bet this will eat up the ram on my 8gb mac mini lol
Changing the quality and removing a lot of the render flags like depth of field and lighting can drastically improve your experience.
Try this- Built out your scene composition as a rough in on the lowest settings. Draft mode, and quarter Rez, remove all flags.
Then when thats solid, go in and do the detail work on the frame level on full quality. Doing short ram previews you should help.
Ram can be an issue once you start getting into Motion. Think of motion as kinda a crazy powerful motion graphics platform that just happens to run on stock hardware. Def pushes the limits in some situations.
Dear sir, a fine tutorial though I really recommend when editing your tutorial film that you make breathing gaps in between your spoken sentences. It makes it terriply stressful to listen to. Literally unbearable. Yours truly...
Thanks for your comment.
This video is from a couple years ago and I've changed that in further videos.
otherwise please check out some other tutorials by other people if this is a serious issue for you?
@@AVUltra thank you for your reply. I will look for more from you. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.😊🌄
If he was farting in between, ok you have a point, but come on be serious, he's a human being and breathing is what we do for a living.