Writings: FCPX & Motion
Final Cut Pro X


Word replacement animation



About Fractional Frame Rates



Still under development…



Mixing OSCs with Text in FCPX — An Update



Keying Inside and Outside



Installing Plugins for FCPX



Motion Template Compatibility



Change Project Frame Rates in FCPX the Easy Way?



Fonts available inside Final Cut Pro X



More About Santa and Rudolph



Introducing a new FCPX effect: Comic Book SC



A Simple Trick with FCPX Titles



FCPX Editing Tip — J,K,L and beyond
Apple Motion



Creating an Optical Illusion with Motion



Create a Pyramid or Tetrahedron in Apple Motion



Perfect Character Write On with Motion



How to fix a fractional frame rate template



Liquid Fill Animated Texture



Flipping Tiles



Building an Analog Clock



Designing Fonts for 3D



Making Confetti – in Motion



The Apple Watch 3D Model that wasn’t released



Pixar Textures – a must have for Motion 3D



The mysteries of OSC in Final Cut Pro X revealed, Part 1
We have all used the On Screen Controls in Final Cut Pro X to control plugins- but how are they built? …



Controlling shapes: The mysteries of OSC in Final Cut Pro X revealed, Part 2
If you ever want to build an adjustable line or shape in Motion for use in Final Cut Pro, there is only one way to get the On Screen Controls to work…



We built a pool! Publishing animating Motion textures to Final Cut Pro X
…Motion is all about animation … So why not textures? Below is a recipe for a very nice 3D Text effect,



Apple Motion's Custom Behavior — The Diamond in the Rough
The Custom behavior lets you make your own behaviors by creating a set of parameters, then keyframing them to create the type of animation you want to apply to an object.



Free Tutorial: The third dimension in Apple's Motion -and beyond
In this instalment, you will be creating an animation on a 3D surface. This project will demonstrate a different way to manipulate the Front and Back Edge “sizes” of a 3D Text object,



Motion5 Tutorial: Making stereo VU meters animate in sync with an audio track
How to build a pair of stereo VU meters in Motion. First interesting point is that the audio track has to be imported
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