[Simon Ubsdell]

I thought it would be helpful to share this tutorial video which walks through the process in detail and hopefully makes it a bit more obvious what I’m talking about.

https://youtu.be/sjuCfJFhdo0

Simon Ubsdell
tokyo productions
hawaiki

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[Simon Ubsdell]

Hi David

I think it’s possible you’re not quite understanding what I’m suggesting.

The thing I would stress is that it’s not about replacing your existing project management, if that’s not something you want to do – it’s about leveraging the ridiculously awesome power of the Smart Collection in a way you probably haven’t thought of. You can totally keep all your existing organisation and add this over the top and you haven’t lost anything. You’ve just hopefully gained a really useful tool.

My feeling is that if you get to like it, even just a little bit, then you might go back and decide that your existing ideas about the organisation you need can be refined. One really obvious example to make the point – do you really need to go to the trouble of making a folder called Stills, when you can instantly summon all your stills and filter them in all sort of clever ways using this method? I kind of think not.

Simon Ubsdell
tokyo productions
hawaiki

[Simon Ubsdell]

Rule Number One: It’s all about the eyes.

So true.

Great little video essay from the wonderful Tony Zhou. Thanks for sharing, David.

Simon Ubsdell
tokyo productions
hawaiki

[Simon Ubsdell]

[Claude Lyneis] “Hope they work out the crashing though, I still get some crashes on the current version.”

I’ve been using 12.5 pretty heavily over the last couple of weeks and the only crashes I’ve had have been due to media storage that isn’t fast enough. Could it be that?

Simon Ubsdell
tokyo productions
hawaiki

[Simon Ubsdell]

Go to the Layout tab for the Text and adjust the XY Center.

Simon Ubsdell
tokyo productions
hawaiki

[Simon Ubsdell]

[Michael Riley] “What is the Apple Motion equivalent to the Trim Paths feature in After Effects?”

This is exactly what I showed you first of all – the First and Last Point Offsets are exactly the same as Trim Path. The Write On Behavior gives you easy instant control over these but of course you can animate them manually as required.

Simon Ubsdell
tokyo productions
hawaiki

[Simon Ubsdell]

Try this alternative method, which is a lot more efficient and which allows you to work with a gradient. It’s well worth knowing about this technique because it has many uses.

Add a gradient generator (1920×1080 in a 1080 project) and set the Start X and Y to zero, End X to say 1440 (or to taste) and End Y to zero. (Make sure it is centred on the canvas.)

Make the enclosing group Fixed Resolution and add a Polar filter to the group. Use a circular mask as necessary to crop the outside of the circle to the required size.

Now simply animate the X position of the gradient – start at negative 1920 and end at positive 1920.

Obviously by adjusting the gradient itself you can achieve a whole range of different and interesting results. Or you could simply use the result as a matte for your own fill.

The Polar filter can seem confusing at first if you’re not used to the concept but it can be immensely useful for this kind of thing.

Simon Ubsdell
tokyo productions
hawaiki

[Simon Ubsdell]

Another cool way of creating a radial gradient is to apply a Radial Blur to a Two Color Ray Generator with just two divisions.

There are many, many ways of achieving the same effect in Motion – it all depends on which you prefer. And of course some are a lot more efficient than others …

Simon Ubsdell
tokyo productions
hawaiki

[Simon Ubsdell]

Or why not try using Color Mode/Over Patterm in your replicator?

If you set the Point 2 origin for your Line to zero on X and Y you can achieve a nice radial gradient using this method.

Simon Ubsdell
tokyo productions
hawaiki

[Simon Ubsdell]

[Michael Riley] “At the halfway mark I want the change the second half of the circle to a different color. One half blue and the other half red. Keyframing colors makes a gradual change which is not what I want. I could probably make two separate line/replicator layers and make the angle end degrees 180, but is there a simpler solution for this?”

Use your crazy replicator (!) as a matte for a colour gradient.

Simon Ubsdell
tokyo productions
hawaiki