Motion

Cheating Morphing in Motion using Optical Flow

Another Motion tutorial from AppleShakeGuru, but this discovery actually goes back two tutorials.

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How to do the 'Cops' style faceblur in Motion by Final Cut King

A tutorial from Final Cut King showing one method of getting that face blur used by reality shows and news broadcasts.

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GenArts

The big VFX house style of plugins. Sapphire offers over 200 FXPlug plugins for FCS 

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CHV Electronics

Fx-Script, FxPlug and Quartz Composer based plugins for Final Cut Studio

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New Motion Lower Third Templates from Final Cut King

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Final Cut King Tutorial on Appearing Text Effect in Motion

Final Cut King show us the way to some text wizardry in Motion. 

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Tracking a Lens flare in Motion

Two Motion tutorials from SugarFx on how to track a lens flare on a motion path. Part two after the break.

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Motion Tutorial from MacBreak on shape sources

Mark Spencer of Ripple Training demonstrates a great trick for creating unique emitters, replicators, and motion paths in Motion.

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Glowing Animating Text Tutorial in Motion

Always nice to see a newcomer making tutorials for Apple ProApps products. In this tutorial Jimmy Lee from iMotion Video shows us how to add glows to animating text in Motion. Coloured snow flakes. Very seasonal.

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Final Cut Pro Templates Seasonal Offer

Final Cut Pro Templates have got a special season two day 30% off offer on their excellent Motion/Final Cut Pro template packs. More after the break.

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Webinar of FX Factory Plug-ins for FCP, AE & Motion

Those very informative people at NewMediaWebinars present a VFX Plug-in Essentials Webinar looking specifically at the plug-ins and filters offered within Noise Industries' FX Factory.

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Who needs Twixtor to do 1000fps when you have Apple's Motion already?

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You've seen the awesome BMX videos posted here that slow down footage to 1000 fps using the optical flow plugin Twixtor. So why not use Motion instead? Watch the tutorial then see the result after the break.

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An Andy Neil Motion Quick Tip tutorial on how to add a blinking cursor to text.

Ever wanted to simulate typing on a computer or mobile phone using a blinking cursor in Motion? Now you can after you've watched this Motion tutorial.

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Better slomo in FCP using Motion's Optical Flow speed effects

 

We all know that Final Cut's slow motion effects can be somewhat disappointing at times. That that ugly frame blending that is on by default is horrendous. In this slightly old but good Motion tutorial (Motion 3 but the process is the same in 4) Steve Martin from Ripple Training shows us how round tripping to Motion for its optical flow processing might be the answer. Want more? extra Optical Flow & retiming tutorials after the break

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Which card is better for Motion - The ATI 5870 or Nvidia Quadro 4000?

Ever wondered which card is better out of these two beasts? Well we've found a guy who tested these monsters to the max.

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Using Conduit, the nodal compositor within Motion

We thought Conduit was dead, how wrong we were. This $199 plugin from DV Garage is on its second version and now works inside FCP, Motion, After Effects and Photoshop. In this video Kevin Hansen shows Mark Spencer how to pull and then refine a key using the plugin. If you have ever had trouble with chromakeying or greenscreen then this might be just what you need. More info including links to a free 3D plugin after the break.

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Quick And Easy Bezier Glow Effect in Motion

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Noise Industries Introduces Manifesto

Noise Industries have announced the release of free plugin Manifesto 1.0, which comes in two variants: a static title generator and a title roll/crawl generator, and it's infinitely more powerful than the native title generator in FCP. FX Factory has also had an update. More after the break.

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Automatic FCP project generator with Post Haste

If you need to simplify your workflow, then try Post Haste, now updated to version 1.1. Enter some basic information about your project and let Post Haste take care of copying and renaming your files. More after the break including some amusing food for thought.

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New FREE Barcode generator plugin from Yanobox

A brand new plugin from the people who bought you Motype and Nodes. Yanobox today released 'Barcode' a free generator for Final Cut Pro, Motion, After Effects and Final Cut Express which lets you generate and animate EAN 13 barcodes, with unique and unexpected results. (Updated 15/2/11 Tutorial posted)

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