Work Smarter not Harder with Motion's File Generator

An in-depth look at how the File Generator can really help you work smarter and get you home early. Plus a look at the problems you need to know about. A must-see for anyone doing a lot of work with text in Motion.
Word Cloud tutorial here: • Apple Motion: Word Clo...

[@rednaughtstudios]

Another gem! 💎

[@SimonUbsdell]

Thank you!

[@mdjwww5]

It all seems simple and easy , but it needs a creative mind to put it all together in an efficient way . Thanks again Simon

[@SimonUbsdell]

Thanks, Marc.

[@hanspetterwiken4379]

Brilliant - thanks! I am constantly coming back to the word cloud tutorial for different purposes as well:)

[@JohnnyMarksVideos]

I always wanted to better understand this feature. Thank you!

[@pixelrancher]

Leaving work early is always a good thing!

[@SimonUbsdell]

You're not kidding!

[@pixelrancher]

@@SimonUbsdell 😂

[@ArtmanBass]

Amazing tip! Thanks. Too bad about the "ir"rotation.

[@toddlask]

great tips!

[@boo__boo481]

Thank you!

[@user-pj5vo2ff8v]

Хороший урок . Многое объясняет. Есть некоторые непонятные отклонения от логики взаимодействия генераторов со сторонними файлами( это так) Понимание этого приходит с годами...и исправляется другими техническими интеграциями( освоением других инструментов!) Важно находить точки соприкосновения между разными программами моушен -дизайна.

[@GarrettBM]

Great! I have some quotes I wanted to put out as animated text, the way you just showed us will work very well. I was reluctant as it seemed too much work. I do not know how you do it, but thank you and well done..

[@SimonUbsdell]

Great to know it might come in handy for you. Thanks.

[@GarrettBM]

@@SimonUbsdell Hi Simon, I gave it a try for a you tube short for a friend (that was my idea I mentioned previously), but I will need to fiddle with it as I need to time it to speech. Not sure if a sequence replicator (or some other applicable behaviour) can be timed to speech. I will report back if figure it out, but for text only it works great!

[@SimonUbsdell]

OK, to be able to time it with variable intervals you would need to adopt the route I demonstrated of cloning the replicator result and keyframing as required to slow down or speed up. I'd suggest it would be more of a fiddle than one would like.

[@simoharjane7823]

Thank you sir

[@olrogerio]

You rocks!!!

[@xieibrahim7304]

Another one🎉🎉🎉

[@that-neat-3d-web-guy]

Expecting Adobe currently going up in flames with the creative community will bring a lot more well-deserved views to your videos

[@SimonUbsdell]

Hah! Thank you. That would be nice. Not holding my breath though.

[@inknpaintCW]

10/10

[@alfonta]

man your good!

[@Rockysvideostation]

This is very useful! Simon, is there any option to change the text style?

[@SimonUbsdell]

Of course. The text formatting options are exactly the same as you would have with the normal text tool. Just go to the formatting section and set them as usual.

[@Rockysvideostation]

That's great! Thank you, Simon!

[@trippy_blob]

@Apple please take note of the glitches.

[@Danieltrotti]

Maestro! 👨🏻‍🎓 Could all these behaviours be published into FCP X I wonder? 🤓

[@SimonUbsdell]

Sadly not because (unless I'm missing something) the File Generator cannot be published. It would have been nice though and I did look into it.

[@ECCreative474]

It is very cool. I did have one hiccup which maybe you can explain. I recreated this twice with the same results. My text line appears twice before going to next line. Any thoughts on what I did wrong?

[@SimonUbsdell]

It sounds as though you have not correctly set the Generator and/or replicator count. That is what will produce the result you are seeing.

[@ECCreative474]

Oh, in the timing! perfect. Works like a charm now! Thanks.

[@user-pj5vo2ff8v]

Было бы логично подсказать сообществу, почитателей вашего таланта, что управлять плавностью данного эфекта возможно увеличивая длительность репликатора в таймкоде. Извините за плохой перевод!)

[@SimonUbsdell]

At 12:50 I show that the sequence replicator can be adjusted in length to make it faster, but you're right that I didn't take the trouble to show how it can also make it slower but I hoped I had made that clear in my description.

[@user-pj5vo2ff8v]

@@SimonUbsdell прошу прощение , за мое необоснованное указание на данный факт)

[@SimonUbsdell]

Not at all. You were right to point it out.