Apple Motion Cameras PART 1 - Apple Motion Professional Training 12 by AV-Ultra

[@AVUltra]

Be sure to subscribe and check back next week for part 2!

[@bigtuss7482]

Really appreciate all your apple motion videos.... thank you

[@backbeat3254]

I've been working with Final Cut for a few years, but am only just getting into Motion. These are BY FAR the best tutorials I've found. Thanks so much! :)

[@multimedia4955]

Thanks for opening up my understanding of 3D cameras. I appreciate your willingness to share your knowledge of this subject with others..

[@dekuanstudios8457]

These are awesome tutorials Stanislaw. I have been wanting to get more into mO2 and now mTracker 3D. But I found myself rewatching these just to remind myself of the basics. Thanks for making these.

[@DanielFordVideo]

I love Stansilaws voice so much haha. Especially his intro and ending when he's like "my name is Stansilaw Robert Luberda with Avultra"

[@AVUltra]

Hope the lessons are good too! Thanks for watching -S

[@DanielFordVideo]

Love the Lessons :) Doing at least 3x a week

[@trevorbeingtrevor]

Watching the ads on these to hopefully pay you back a little for these great tutorials! Thanks!

[@AVUltra]

Hey thanks for the support Trevor. -S

[@pedro_formuladapartitura]

thank you! another perfect lesson!

[@AlanLangdon]

Rock solid, as always!

[@adproproductions2038]

this was an awesome tutorial! thank you very much for the training materials!

[@AVUltra]

3D layers and cameras can be complicated. I felt it was necessary to include materials so people could experiment with the exact same lessons as it can be a little confusing just watching.

[@rm-projects]

Can you tell us how you made titles one right after the other? 10:37

[@pajutanfroi]

Thank you very much for your tutorials, I'm new to motion, but thru your tutorials, I am learning it thoroughly! :)

[@AVUltra]

+Froiland Pajutan thanks for the comment. I have a whole lot more I'm going to be publishing in the next few weeks. I hope you make really great things with what you learn! -Stanislaw

[@lifewithmattandnikki3903]

Alot to learn here and can see it's going to take me a while to master this. One initial question, when I experiment with cameras, the background always seems to animate as well as the layers above it. How would I isolate the BG just to stay static?

[@AVUltra]

Anything 3d will be affected by a 3d camera. to make an item static you must not give it a 3rd dimension. So it must be a 2d group. isolate your bg layer. Group it. Make it a 2d group to keep it static. I cover this in camera and cloners lesson once you get there. 3D (or technically 2.5D in this case) is a very large topic and id recommend going slow with it. Hope that helps! -Stanislaw

[@lifewithmattandnikki3903]

@@AVUltra ah, great thanks for that tip. Learnt alot in the last week thanks to your tutorials, thanks!

[@charlieotto]

thanks a lot. i'm having conundrum that i think is something to do with cameras, i'm hoping you have a quick second. a layer of mine is lined up fine when my active camera is switched off, angled strangely when i have the active camera switched on, and invisible when i switch to perspective camera. any thoughts?

[@charlieotto]

it has to do with a mirror or flop filter i put on the layer. like once you rotate a camera, the mirror reacts to that, and you can set the mirror with the active camera switched off but it will look totally different when you switch the active camera on. if you have any suggestions, i'm all ears, otherwise i'm just gonna leave this here in case someone else has same issue. thanks for your work

[@sopin.theworld]

awesome

[@NickP]

Hi. It’s me again lol Your videos have been helpful! I’m trying to find the best way to alternate photos in the background, behind my animated logo. Small to big, big to small and with movement on and off the screen. Can you help me with this effect or point me in the right direction?

[@AVUltra]

Dropzones.

[@NickP]

AV-Ultra thanks

[@macronencer]

Another excellent tutorial, thank you! One thing is a bit odd though - you keep saying "zoom" when you mean "track". Not a huge thing, but it might confuse beginners. They are different camera operations entirely.

[@AVUltra]

Agreed. I went back and forth on it but ultimately went with what people were more familiar with. While understanding tracking, dolly and zoom movements, I found that many people consistently went with the zoom terminology, so since it’s a beginner course decided to meet them where they are at. Thanks for the comment!

[@musicandvideoentertainment7651]

Thanks

[@redrokz7238]

Hi Stanislaw, I opened the tutorial lesson file: 1- downloaded it to my mac; 2- selected it in my downloads folder; 3- right clicked file "AV Ultra Motion 12a" and opened in Motion. Cannot do anything in Motion, cannot open cameras, or replicate your lesson, or even close Motion! It's frozen! I had to forcibly turn off the mac. Obviously, I've done something incorrectly. Can you tell me the right way to view the lesson file, so I can still manipulate it and learn from the tutorial? Thanks for your help.

[@AVUltra]

Contact Apple.

[@AVUltra]

It’s also possible the new versions of motion changes something. Don’t know. Don’t get paid to make these. They actually cost me money, so I don’t really support these lessons as I see maybe 6 dollars from 36,000 views a month. I just can’t afford to keep up with them and do my other work that pays the bills as much as I’d like to.

[@redrokz7238]

I understand. I did contact Apple, couldn’t duplicate the problem. Appreciate your work, best Motion lessons available, in my opinion. Thanks again.

[@bauernoslrac]

I have Motion (V 5.3.1) - I can't seem to find a "Depth of Field" camera? My only options are Viewpoint and framing. Please help

[@bauernoslrac]

Haa - never mind, i figured it out. It's just a framing camera (like you said) with the depth of field parameters set in the camera inspector. B

[@AVUltra]

Robert- Glad you were able to figure it out. Just note when you turn on depth of field you will need to turn it on in the render setting on the top right and it can slow down a machine. -S

[@DGFA-]

Hi, how can it be solved by z depth pass coming from a 3D program?

[@AVUltra]

I’m not really understanding you. Motion doesn’t give a depth pass z pass like traditional 3D suites like at all. It also doesn’t have any support whatsoever for any 3D model import or workflows. It’s strictly a stock 2.5D compositing effect program. It can handle 3D text layers with limited geometry extrusion and a few baked in 3D environmental maps. You can use mO2 to get 3D objects in and animated but no z pass exports.

[@pravaekpradhan5270]

How do you get the framing camera and the viewpoint camera?

[@AVUltra]

Go to your inspector and change it.

[@pravaekpradhan5270]

Got it! Thanks. Also, your videos are amazing. I make sure to watch one of your motion videos everyday, and I try doing what you do.

[@NewsomeProductions1]

Where exactly is this camera tool?

[@AVUltra]

The camera is a layer item- so add item-> camera. Once you have a camera your camera control tools show up in the top right corner of your canvas. I apologize if it wasn't too clear in the lesson. Thanks for your question and thanks for watching. -Stanislaw Luberda AV-Ultra

[@NewsomeProductions1]

AV-Ultra Omg what a quick response!!! Nah your clear im lazy lol. I found it. Im trying to recreate the Warner Bros logo but a Harry Potter version. Im trying to figure out how to get this to zoom in to the text like it does when the Harry Potter Movies start. I hope that makes sense If anything i will input it into FCPX.

[@AVUltra]

I would try a zoom to behavior or a framing behavior- at least to start. Good luck! Totally post a link when it's done- be cool to see!.

[@danielding8675]

Please notice the render option, do check the depth of field!

[@AVUltra]

Daniel- Apologies, I’m not understanding you. Is this a question? A suggestion?

[@comicjian2010]

nice tutorials....but sill need some basic skills to understand. if this is a basic tutorial, it might be better if everthings slow down

[@AVUltra]

Thanks for the feedback. These are produced in my spare time for free so I have limited time and resources to produce these in addition to my day to day work. I originally tried to make a pay what you want hoping people could support these, but people only paid a total of like 4 dollars in a year so I just don’t have the time or the money to go deeper. If you are looking for more specific training, perhaps a formal paid class would be better suited for you. Thanks for checking it out.

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