I look forward to receiving any and all future Motion videos that he may produce. This is Steve Martin's third Motion tutorial. Thus, it doubles as a kind of video manual.
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The tutorial movie itself can be referred to as often as necessary to remember particular functions and skills, long after the first watching. I would encourage more authors of similar tutorials to try this same strategy. This tutorial is more than creating a project where one simply follows directions without developing the clarity that should be gained. This interrogatory approach enables the user to think about what they are doing. One thing Steve does, which I don't think I have seen before, is ask the person using the tutorial questions about the steps they are about to make. The skills demonstrated are ones that form the basis for numerous future projects: they are useful, transferable and foundational. That point is moot however, as every step, every short cut and every explanation given serves a much wider purpose than the simple creation of buttons for DVD SP. All learning is sequential, thus if you could not apply what you learn in this tutorial to other independent projects, you would gain little beyond its' initial scope. It is not enough that you can follow the directions of the tutorial it is far more important in learning Motion, or any application, that you develop an understanding of how it works and why you are taking the steps you are. The user is regularly provided with various keyboard shortcuts, workflow and helpful hints that generate good habits and awareness of the 'whys' of what you are doing.
While this tutorial succeeds in its intended purpose, that of creating buttons in Motion to be used in DVD SP, it actually goes considerably further. The window is easily scalable to fit any size you feel comfortable working from. There are 36 separate segments in all, each, a next step in the tutorial process.
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The Motion Buttons Tutorial is an easy to use QuickTime download you can jump from segment to segment via the menu triangle on the lower right hand side. This I did by going back to Final Cut Pro, exporting some of my own footage into the Motion buttons project, changing text and seeing how easily Motion updated these changes into DVD SP. Once things have all been exported and set up in DVD SP, Steve even guides you back to Motion to make certain changes, and then seamlessly brings you back to SP to further illustrate the very real ease of the entire process. We are ready to set up and activate the buttons. The Motion created menu has now been brought into DVD Studio Pro. The buttons have been created, duplicated and the Menu is now ready to be brought easily into DVD Studio Pro. This final Motion work is what will then be effortlessly integrated with your DVD SP project.Ĭreating the highlight-able buttons via simple use of the bezier tool you can, of course, make any shape you want. From there you move to create masks and scale each of the buttons to proper size before adding the drop shadows, graphic separation bars, color adjustment, text, behaviors and a clone overlay layer. It was a simply process to drag the frames to the canvas and then utilizing the keyboard shortcuts supplied in the tutorial, create a mask and two more buttons off the first one. Within Motion he takes you from dragging the background picture frames from the Motion library, which will serve as drop shadowed surrounds for the Menu buttons themselves once easily integrated within DVD Studio Pro. Steve's tutorial starts off with the basic setup of the Motion project itself, spending just the right amount of time on setting the proper project preferences before diving into the DVD Motion Menu creation itself. No fuss, no bother, and no necessity of going through the tedious process of creating everything in Photoshop. It stands to reason that he would produce some incredible tutorials for the Motion program and he has.įocusing on the integration of Motion and DVD Studio Pro, Steve takes you through the entire process of creating DVD menus in Motion, utilizing clips supplied with the tutorial, right on through bringing the Motion created menu into DVD Studio Pro, creating the buttons and activating them for your DVD project. Point is, Steve has been at this for a long time as one of the leading teachers of all things Apple. Many of those tutorials are still up on that website and Steve's own Ripple Training site. Steve Martin began working with the DV GUYs website developing QuickTime tutorials you could download, use and learn from.
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Special price through November - 15% off.Įnter "lafcpug" in the Customer code field.īack when Final Cut Pro was still a new NLE, there was very little out there in terms of tutorials and books.
Ripple Motion Tutorial 3- Creating DVD Motion Menus in Motion
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