In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe continues his tour of the canvas by looking at the transport controls inside of Motion 5.

In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe talks about the canvas, and all the drop down menus you find along the top of the window. Understanding these drop downs, and the parameters inside will give you a better understanding of the application.

In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe walks you through all the tools in the toolbar, talks about their ins and outs, and gives you a firm understanding of the basics you need to know to get your job done as quickly as possible.

In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe goes into depth about the File Browser, Library and the Inspector, and shows you a great, almost hidden tool called the HUD, that you are going to be using probably more than the Inspector itself!

Explore workflows for stereoscopic 3D moviemaking, episodic TV, color grading, large-scale motion graphics and more, with first-person success stories using HP workstations.

In this tutorial, Andy Neil shows how to create a custom designed lower third for Final Cut Pro X.

In this tutorial, Kevin P McAuliffe shows you how easy it is to get up and running with PSD files in Motion 5, and also shows you why using Behaviors is a better way of working than working with keyframes.

In this tutorial, Kevin P McAuliffe answers a viewer's question about masking in Apple's Motion, and shows that sometimes the best way to mask something, is not to mask it at all!

Within the last year, ARRI, Panavision and Aaton have all ceased production of their film cameras to focus exclusively on the design and manufacture of digital cameras. Somewhere in the world, right now, someone is holding the last movie film camera ever

In our next lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe shows you how to create not only 3D extruded text using the replicator, but also gives you a sneak peak at how to extrude and animate logos to add to your productions.

In our wrap up of Chapter 1, we learn that "Exporting" is a way of the past in Motion 5. Now, it's all about Sharing. Users of FCP7 will be familiar with Sharing, a great way to not only export your work, but do it in the background, so you can

In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe looks at the Layout tab in the text tool, and shows you why this tab will be an integral part of your text workflow from creating text on a path to scrolling and crawling text.

This issue features articles from Kevin Blank; the COW's visit to IBC in Amsterdam; filming 'Ghost of Goodnight Lane'; a look at HBO's digital future; Douglas Trumbull; and a moving tribute to Steve Jobs.

In the next part at our introductory look at Apple's Motion 5, we take a look at a great "not so hidden" feature in Motion 5, and that's the Heads Up Display (HUD).

Apple's Motion is one of the best compositing applications on the market today, the problem is it is easily the most misunderstood as well.

After a day of reading the forums, tweeting, and scanning the blogosphere, two COW leaders had a lot to talk about. Rich and Walter are not casual Final Cut Pro users...

Learn how to make a radar sweep graphic entirely in Motion and animate it with behaviors. This tutorial shows off tricks involving replicators and parameter behaviors.

In this video tutorial Deyson Ortiz gives a brief demonstration on how Apple's Motion Master Templates can be updated and changed easily.

In this Motion tutorial podcast, Andy Neil will finish showing how to create text that you can explode into a thousand bits. This is the second part of a two part Motion quick tip series.

In this Apple Motion video tutorial, CreativeCOW.net contributing editor Stephen Smith shows you how to get your text noticed. This tutorial shows you the ins and outs of kinetic typography, otherwise known as moving text.

Kevin P McAuliffe takes a look at Boris Continuum Complete's chroma key tools and demonstrates a hidden gem for Final Cut Pro, Motion, and Final Cut Express users.

In this Final Cut Studio tutorial podcast Ben Scott shows you how to create a TV screen effect. using generators, masking, vector masks, behaviors and keyframing in Apple Motion.