Final Cut Studio, Avid, Adobe, and Video Streaming

Here's an awesome video tutorial that will show you how to create flying text in Motion.



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You can also check out this tutorial on Creating Live Font Master Templates in Motion.

Noise Industries has done it again!  One of my all-time favorite Final Cut Pro plug-ins companies has just released a new version of their ever-popular FxFactory, and now included is the PulpFx Abstract plug-in from Aquafadas.



Aquafadas creates cool slideshows based on a picture folder.  You too can now create amazing slideshows with PulpFx Abstract, a new set of generators that lets you easily animate stills.  From the atmospheric "Black Reflections" to funky "Light Slice", you'll love the perfect abstract look for your animated slideshows with intuitive parameters for a fast track to extra pizazz.

Just go to Noise Industries' website and download your free demo to try it out.  And don't forget to check out our Final Cut Pro 5-day class schedule and call us today to reserve your spot in our next class.

Motion does a good job of hiding its 3D capabilities when you're working primarily in 2D.  But there's a dark side to that simplicity: you'll find that Motion provides two completely different tools to accomplish some of the same tasks in 2D and 3D.  For example, you can adjust the position, rotation, and scale of a 2D layer using the regular Select/Transform tool (the arrow tool) -- which gives you the grey circle-and-crosshair with the rotation "lollipop" that appears when you click on any regular 2D layer in your Canvas.

Even without using Motion's full 3D capabilities, though, you can manipulate those same 2D layers using the same transformation tools that apply in 3D space.  To make it even more confusing, the tool has the same name: the Select/Transform tool!  The 3D Transform Tool is the second tool from the left at the top of your Canvas window: it looks like a little atom alongside a little arrow.

There are many different ways to trim a clip in Final Cut Pro. Certainly one of the most popular is to leave the playhead in one position and drag to trim the clip to the playhead. When we do this we see the image changing in the Canvas as well as the new timecode value. Another popular way to trim is to simply enter a new duration value, and we can accomplish this by right clicking on a clip in the Timeline, and choosing to adjust the duration value .

We should all be trying to be more about using keyboard commands, and trying to get away from mousing around the interface. On the keyboard there are two sets of trim tools, and they have the same two functions.

The bracket keys, and the period and comma keys function identically. When the edit of a clip is highlighted the keys will either increase or decrease the duration of a clip, and if the clip itself is highlighted the keys will move the clip forward or back.

In either case if the shift key is held down the amount of change will be modified by a predetermined amount that is specified in the user preferences under the Editing Tab. By default the amount of change is one frame, and the modified amount is specified under Multi-Frame Trim Size in the User Preferences.

When editing the duration of a clip the manner in which the edit is highlighted is very relevant. Depending on which portion of an edit is highlighted there are various edits performed.  When both the outgoing and incoming edits are highlighted the trim acts like a roll edit, and trims both clips equally. If there is only one side of the edit highlighted the trim acts like a ripple edit changing the duration of the clip, and moving the effected clips accordingly. The Keyboard command used to toggle between the three states is U.

When a clip is highlighted there is no limit to how far a clip can be moved. Simply put the limit is until there is a clip collision. However there is no limit to the amount of clips that can be highlighted when moving clips, only that once one clip has a collision all clips stop moving.

Both functions work in multi track scenarios. To highlight multiple edits or tracks simply hold down the command key while selecting.

Creating a Multi-language DVD is alot easier than you think.  If you have a video project where you need to offer the audio in many different languages, basically you can accomplish this by assigning menu buttons to point at each one of your audio tracks.  In the example below, I've already imported the aif files of the different language audio tracks into my DVD Studio Pro project.

Keeping in mind that when bringing a video file into DVD Studio Pro, it will bring in the attached audio file with it, or an audio file that has the same name as the video file.  But to exaggerate the example I'm using, I've created a separate English audio file, however, in most cases, your English version will be produced with the video.  So, now, first of all, we will drag our video file up into the Graphical View.  Next drag the English audio file on top of the video in the Graphical View.  Your track should look like this, so far:

After the jump is more step by step...