I've relaunched my "Lighting for Video 101" course right here within the member's area.

Click here to access it now.

Enjoy the training! :)

This video demonstrates how you can use Motion to quickly create a time-lapse video.

In the tutorial I also show how you can use Apple Preview to resize the photos before bringing them into Motion.

As an alternative, you'll see me use Aperture to resize the photos, just in case you don't want to use Preview. Both methods work pretty well, though Preview seems to struggle when you give it a lot of photos, and Aperture seems to handle any number of photos quite well.

I also demonstrate how to export the video from Motion so you can use it in another program.

By the way, make sure you don't miss the other free videos I posted over the past couple days, the one about typography in Motion and the one about using Final Cut Pro X and Keynote together.

I hope you're finding all these videos helpful!

I'm very excited to share this video with you! It's another short tutorial from the membership library that I'm releasing freely to everyone.

This one demonstrates how to create a type of kinetic typography. In a nutshell, kinetic typography is moving text in a video.

While you can definitely animate text in Final Cut Pro X, Motion 5 has a lot more tools for this kind of work.

You'll see in the video that I use a combination of keyframes and masks to create the effect.

Keyframes are tools to create the animation. And masks are tools to make something become transparent or disappear. If you're not super-familiar with keyframes or masks, I think you'll enjoy this little tutorial.

Oh, and one important note: When you see me use masks, make sure your mask settings are set to "subtract". You can do that in the inspector or the HUD. But if it's not set to "subtract", you likely won't get the effect I demonstrate.

I hope you find the video helpful. Enjoy!

Watch this video to see how you can use Apple Keynote with Final Cut Pro X to make videos from your slides.

This is one example of a workflow. There are other ways to do it. I just really like this one.

I hope you find it helpful. Enjoy!