Motion 5 - Getting Started + More!

Motion 5 is incredibly powerful for motion graphics, plugins, titles and so much more for Final Cut Pro. This tutorial breaks down some of the basics of Motion, but has some tips even for advanced users.
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Timecodes:
0:00 Intro
0:38 Project Browser
2:25 Importing A Timelapse
4:30 The Project Pane (Layers)
6:08 Canvas
7:47 Shape Tools
10:04 Masks
11:38 Groups + Duplicates + Clone Layers
13:46 Library + Generators
15:53 Animation
18:13 Filters
21:05 Text + Animations
24:00 Particle Emitters
27:40 Importing Footage (CMD + I)
27:57 Change Project Duration
28:20 Motion Tracking
34:00 Basic Rigging
40:00 Outro
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[@TheFinalCutBro]

Hey Fam! I appreciate you stopping by more than you can know. I have so much more planned for Motion 5 tutorials. Not to mention lots of content around Final Cut Pro! So if that interests you, consider subscribing! I hope you have the most blessed day ever.

[@stephenethan1586]

I know how much time it takes to make content like this, and I am so appreciative that you spent the time to do it. This has helped so much. Thanks for all of your tutorials. I have learned so much.

[@miguelcollado]

I was just 18 minutes into it, and this is already the best tutorial I’ve seen. Thank you very much.

[@TheFinalCutBro]

Such a huge compliment! Thanks so much! Hopefully you found the rest of the tutorial just as good.

[@JamesZhan]

My god, you have the best Motion tutorials on the internet, period. Thank you so much for creating them. Even though I have Adobe After Effects, I would much rather use Motion since I'm a FCPX user and Motion is a lot more optimized for macOS. Before you came around there were barely any recent, good tutorials for it. PLEASE continue making Motion tutorials!

[@KilianMuster]

The icon you were clicking at 12:16 is for *changing the layer group from 2D layers* (what's on top of what is decided by layer order) *to 3D layers* (what's on top of what is decided by Z value).

[@owen_english]

I don't know why I'm teaching this.lol🤣

[@cmbates4053]

You’re doing a great job. Also Layers Column Icons can include (from View>Layers Columns) preview,opacity, and blend mode

[@tallerdeficcion]

Sweet mother of Jesus! I’ve been looking for a quick tutorial and you just covered it all! You earned a new subscriber my guy!

[@MattSpaugh]

Doooooooooooood, this is so helpful. I've tried to use Motion so many times over the years and always found myself bogged down by all the options. This helped me get things sorted in my head a lot better. I'm using motion to tweak existing titles to create new ones that use specific client colors and fonts. This has been hugely helpful. Thx BRO!

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Excellent VIdeo Mr. Bro. 🙂I have been complaining about you editing out the natural pauses in your videos and am now absolutely delited to see this one where your speach is 100% natural. Love it! I give credit where it´s due!

[@DABishai]

Really great tutorial! Great introduction to motion without being overwhelming

[@mohmmedaljomaie]

That's a lot of great information! Really love it!❣️

[@Mediamazing]

Great intro tutorial! I need to play with motion more, such a powerful tool.

[@eastbayjay]

I'm just getting into Motion. I always forget it's there. This is by far the best Intro to Motion tutorial I've seen.

[@TheFinalCutBro]

So much to learn! Stoked for you to find out all the secrets Motion holds!

[@ClintonWaller]

Great tutorial, starts slow showing how to use the interface, then gets into keyframe, motion tracking, and rigging. Thank-you for making this, I learned a lot!

[@TheFinalCutBro]

Thank you so much for watching!

[@Joao-by4uj]

Very nice explanatory video!

[@tekmontekmon8098]

That was an amazing video and I feel like I can actually get started using soft soft. Thank you so much!

[@carlaeher]

This is by far the best video for basic motion walk through! Thank you!!

[@TheFinalCutBro]

Such a huge compliment! Thank you! I have so much more to come.

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Thanks so much. Super helpful.

[@TheMentalHealthToolbox]

LOVE you chanel 💯 I have never used Motion and now thinking Ishouldd learn!

[@inknpaintCW]

Super as usual! I use Motion a lot and I still learned something!

[@TheFinalCutBro]

That’s the best compliment of all! Appreciate you watching as always! 👊

[@FrancoisCarment]

What a brilliant tutorial!

[@Aziz-kw6ct]

You 're a great Content Creator, Thnx for this great one, I was looking for first steps in motion and made a very good and funny introduction to it

[@moe-eh5vi]

This tutorial is sooo good. Thank you!

[@TheFinalCutBro]

Appreciate the super thanks!

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Awesome tutorial!

[@toddlask]

great stuff! love your motion vids!

[@TheFinalCutBro]

So much more to come!

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[@eliasjensen3115]

Very helpful..thanks a lot.

[@skyshipmusic363]

I'm competent in FCPX so this tutorial helped me get up and going making Motion animation. Thanks! 😼

[@zoltantoth5079]

But still able to explain each stage in a basic manner. Honestly thanks man!

[@dziaba0303]

12:10 - it switches group from 2D into 3D Type, and so forth. Great tutorial!

[@smartdrivetest]

Hi Dylan - great tutorial on Motion. I liked the fact that you didn't edit out the parts of Motion that you weren't sure about. Because there are parts of a software package that some times we're just not sure, but we can make it do what we need it to do. I'll be sure to watch some of your other videos. All the very best, Cheers Rick

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Thank you very much! What a good video ! Keep up creating contents please :) Really good content for real

[@armando.visuals]

Great video! thank you

[@segipak]

Thank you, Bro!

[@spencers-adventures]

Just got into Motion this week. Thank you SO MUCH for this tutorial!

[@TheFinalCutBro]

DOPE! Stoked for you! I have a massive playlist of Motion videos to get you going if you are interested! kzbin.info/aero/PL02OH3lOOLeKQF7yoEcQ18V8qr-7UtOSI

[@spencers-adventures]

@@TheFinalCutBro thanks buddy, I’ll check them out for sure!

[@ciccius360]

Much appreciation.

[@ozzycinema]

Thank you for a great introduction. Coming from After Effects this really helps a lot.

[@TheFinalCutBro]

Awesome! Hopefully I can share everything you need to know. It's definitely a big switch! I definitely recommend this new tutorial I just dropped about "Parameter Behaviors" it will help immensely with animations in Motion. Here's a link if you're interested! kzbin.info/www/bejne/f366dKd4i9hqe5Y

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Much Needed

[@kaigrek]

Great TUT !! Thank You !!

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Hey thanks so much! That's a huge compliment! Appreciate you taking the time to watch it 👊

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If you kept it going till now you have all the respect that I can give

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You are my hero!!

[@platepixels4520]

Great tutorial - Motion is beginning to make some sense now! 😀 Would love to see a tutorial on how to achieve the opening text animation from Amazon Prime’s ‘Upload’ series!

[@erochas]

Excellent! Thanks 🙏🏼

[@TheFinalCutBro]

Thanks for watching!

[@frankleemorris2431]

Excellent approach: competence with modesty ("I don't know why I am teaching this") sooo unusual in such spheres. But that masks your overall first-rate intro to Motion. Thanks, nicely done!

[@KevTCC]

5 mins in and you already solved a problem that has been dogging me. :)

[@BCBrownBooks]

The video is super helpful. Had me following alone perfectly fine, then we got to the star-making &, seriously, your 'Oh my goodness, don't look at that" lol earned your my sub.

[@TheFinalCutBro]

Hah that's great! People take themselves a bit too seriously here on the internet. Time to change that! Appreciate the sub!

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😀great tutorial

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Nice & Thanks :)

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Thanks for the great tutorial. I'm currently switching from after effects and this really helps.

[@TheFinalCutBro]

Awesome! Glad I could help at least a little. I have so much more planned for the future in motion, so stay tuned!

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yeah, work!!!

[@mannyluches]

Thanks Bro! I've always been sort of intimidated by Motion but you just made it look so doable, really appreciate this tutorial and what you're doing. And the honesty when you said you dont know what that icon beside the lock button in the layers panel does is just rare... Anyway, i found that if you click on it with the HUD and with the Inspector panel in Group, it changes from Fixed Resolution to Flatten and the type changed from 2D to 3D. i think it might have something to do with 3D-ing stuff...

[@TheFinalCutBro]

Hey thanks for the insight! I actually went on to research it later and discovered that you are exactly right. I use it all the time now. It would have been a great tidbit of info for people, but definitely not the end of the world. Hopefully they will see your comment and gain the knowledge! Thanks for watching!

[@gstevejordan]

Thanks!

[@TheFinalCutBro]

Appreciate you watching!

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wow, very cool video, youre fire

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Wow 🔥

[@TheFinalCutBro]

Have a little kindling for your fire 🪵

[@UshasRides]

Just downloaded Motion yesterday for a personal project I have. Tried the Apple manual in Books... then though 'screw that... I need a YT tutorial to get me started!'... This video was just what I needed... Thank you for making this. I've subscribed, and will be checking out your other Motion tutorials :) :)

[@TheFinalCutBro]

Hey so glad! Thanks for sharing that. Really appreciate it. Looking forward to seeing you in future videos! 👊

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cool!

[@studypomodoromusic]

hii.. thx for this.. looking forward for gooood FCPx and Apple Motion tutorials..

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Comin' right up!

[@Sachz]

This was great 👍 is there a part 2?

[@TheFinalCutBro]

Definitely could be in the future! In the meantime, I have a massive playlist of more in-depth Motion tutorials if you want to check it out! kzbin.info/aero/PL02OH3lOOLeKQF7yoEcQ18V8qr-7UtOSI

[@rap819]

Cool

[@RobinDcreation]

subscribed bro ! I wanna learn Motion 5 so badly

[@TheFinalCutBro]

I've got so much more planned for Motion! I appreciate you subscribing so much! I actually have a playlist for Motion 5 with all my current tutorials, if you're interested in learning some more! Here's a link - kzbin.info/aero/PL02OH3lOOLeKQF7yoEcQ18V8qr-7UtOSI Thanks my dude!

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@@TheFinalCutBro yeah I will look there for sure! will be awesome to lear some sick transitions to make my own and safe money for packages on internet 😁

[@frank01709]

Hi mate, I wonder if you can help as I think I may have found a strange bug in the latest version of FCB 10. I 6 After completing a project and exporting it out to my document as a movie usually 4K for Apple devices everything works fine up to this point. But if I decide Im not happy with it and go back to the project to make alterations and then export it out again the changes I made are unchanged and the only way I can fix it is to duplicate the project and delete the original and then export it again and then the changes have been made.. I know it sounds strange and any help would be appreciated. Thanks

[@dimasta4398]

Very helpful,thank you so much)I was wondering when you save text with background to Final Cut Pro ,it has those Published Parameters I can not figure out how to move text and background together by click and move,I can only move them when I change px in published parameters, it really bother me when I do a lot of editing haha

[@TheFinalCutBro]

Thanks for watching! -- I'll do my best to explain a potential solution over a comment. But I am definitely going to be doing a future tutorial on this very thing. Unfortunately this won't be as detailed as I would want it to be! So when you're in Motion, select your background. Go over to the properties on the left side. In the position properties, right next to where you can add a keyframe, you should see a small down arrow (when you mouse over it). Click that and go down to "Add Parameter Behavior" then select the "Link" behavior. Now drag your text into the "Source Object" box. You will notice the background moves perfectly with the text now. You can offset the background's position by using the offset properties at the bottom of the link parameters. Or you can change the anchor point on your background, and that will have the same effect. When you publish your project to FCP, you should see the background element moving with the text. Hope that helps you! Feel free to reach out if you have any problems.

[@dimasta4398]

@@TheFinalCutBro Thank you so much for replying )For some reason It doesn't work!Maybe I will wait for a video haha I really appreciate that )

[@rewdonaghy1305]

Is that a star? No this is Patrick. Just started in motion to great tutorial

[@TheFinalCutBro]

Should have thrown in Spongebob!

[@ngocnhinek628]

yes

[@robertreed3033]

Can I use the time laps feature for stop motion?

[@eliys5982]

Hi ! Thank you so much for this video that was.. much needed ! I always saw Motion as a black magic thing before ahaha ! I had a little questions, can we download or buy the plugins you have ?

[@TheFinalCutBro]

Thanks so much for watching!! I haven’t really put any plugins up for sale from myself, though that’s coming soon. But I do have a few free plugins out you can get if you go to my plug-in playlist on KZbin!

[@eliys5982]

@@TheFinalCutBro thank you for your answer !

[@alexanderkrasnovsky]

Is it possible to make a mesh gradient in motion?

[@agentd.0096]

Does apple motion have mirror edges/motion tile.

[@daniel310307]

but notNice tutorialng seems to work. Tried built-in content, and scarlett solo. What's the hardware you have? windows mac? special soft card?

[@yasminmohamed7019]

In the GMS switch the “Program” to Analog app 1 TE

[@mnis]

I kinda wished that you would create a playlist with all Motion videos in it so we can follow them easily and learn more from you :)

[@TheFinalCutBro]

Wham bam! kzbin.info/aero/PL02OH3lOOLeKQF7yoEcQ18V8qr-7UtOSI

[@motionon]

Dylan 🤗!! Do you not offer an exhaustive Apple Motion 5 course that actually teaches all of its power !?? I wanna master it so I canf fully get creative and crazy with it!!

[@nunorleal]

Help please. I created a poke filter to control rotation of an object. How do I block the X axis of the poke so I can only move it in Y axis ? Greets. Love your content

[@TheFinalCutBro]

Hey Nuno! Look into using the "Clamp" parameter behavior. You can set the values to zero on the x axis position, and that should lock it into place. Hoping that helps!

[@nunorleal]

@@TheFinalCutBro that’s it. Thank you very much.

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[@TheTraveler101]

Hey Dylan, You ramble-on like you didn't have a plan, which makes it quite difficult to follow along. But I do appreciate your efforts. Thank you

[@TheFinalCutBro]

Hey Rick, I completely agree! I created this video when I was just starting out on KZbin and I hadn’t tuned in to the fact that the videos needed more structure than what I was doing. Since then I’ve done a couple more beginners guides that follow a more direct path! This one in particular is one that I really like. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mKTMiZ2pbtOJmtU

[@GarethGuitar1]

Hey, wonder if you can help me? when I play the animation it goes way too fast and its hard to see what it will look like in real time. I think the playback speed is set way too high but i've tried/googled everything I can. Any ideas? thanks in advanced.

[@GarethGuitar1]

cancel that my friend! I did something very stupid and didn't change the time code into seconds when I first opened the project. Muppet!

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How to change your change your channel rack from Dub back to the original channel rack you have

[@VMloveeeeee]

Friend, the recording of keyframes appeared in 3ds max back in the 90s

[@carlosjiron0811]

I am on the fence about buying Motion, any thoughts?

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God

[@danielcrompton7818]

15:41 this looks like water!

[@360Tinyplanet]

Hai can I edite video in motion? thanks

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I started here.

[@Chesskingromeo]

Please give a brief description of the plugin, how to use it. How to use the plugin. How to use it.

[@HonestOK2930]

Import as Image Sequence is more for use with 3D animated content. When you export from say Blender you would export as an image sequence of your timeline. This would spit out all the frames as images into a specified folder. The reason is due to computers crashing mid-render. Rendering 3D can take hours, days, or even longer. With an image sequence you could start the render off where the computer crashed with minimal loss of time. There's nothing like rendering to a video format only to get to the last second and the computer crashed corrupting the video file...ugh

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After effect or motion which is the best one???

[@danielcrompton7818]

That’s up to you!

[@miguelcollado]

Thanks for the video. I have a major dilemma….if you cannot use a motion project in FCPX, then where and how you use the motion blank projects? 🤔 I understand you have to create a template for in motion to use in FCPX, but what about just the motion project?

[@TheFinalCutBro]

Thanks for watching! The blank projects can easily be used to create VFX or 1-off animations you don't intend on using over and over. You would simply just build out the project, and then export a video of the project for final cut pro (or whichever editing software!). The great thing is, you can easily convert the project over to a title/generator/plugin etc. if you want to down the road!

[@miguelcollado]

@@TheFinalCutBro thanks but then how do you do that?

[@TheFinalCutBro]

@@miguelcollado To convert it over, just go up to File > Convert Project To > And just select which project type you want it converted over to!

[@miguelcollado]

@@TheFinalCutBro thank you!

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How tf fo u get it for windows