Izzy Video tutorials make it easy to learn video.

This video demonstrates how you can use Motion to quickly create a time-lapse video.

In the tutorial I also show how you can use Apple Preview to resize the photos before bringing them into Motion.

As an alternative, you’ll see me use Aperture to resize the photos, just in case you don’t want to use Preview. Both methods work pretty well, though Preview seems to struggle when you give it a lot of photos, and Aperture seems to handle any number of photos quite well.

I also demonstrate how to export the video from Motion so you can use it in another program.

By the way, make sure you don’t miss the other free videos I posted over the past couple days, the one about typography in Motion and the one about using Final Cut Pro X and Keynote together.

I hope you’re finding all these videos helpful!

I’m very excited to share this video with you! It’s another short tutorial from the membership library that I’m releasing freely to everyone.

This one demonstrates how to create a type of kinetic typography. In a nutshell, kinetic typography is moving text in a video.

While you can definitely animate text in Final Cut Pro X, Motion 5 has a lot more tools for this kind of work.

You’ll see in the video that I use a combination of keyframes and masks to create the effect.

Keyframes are tools to create the animation. And masks are tools to make something become transparent or disappear. If you’re not super-familiar with keyframes or masks, I think you’ll enjoy this little tutorial.

Oh, and one important note: When you see me use masks, make sure your mask settings are set to “subtract”. You can do that in the inspector or the HUD. But if it’s not set to “subtract”, you likely won’t get the effect I demonstrate.

I hope you find the video helpful. Enjoy!

Watch this video to see how you can use Apple Keynote with Final Cut Pro X to make videos from your slides.

This is one example of a workflow. There are other ways to do it. I just really like this one.

I hope you find it helpful. Enjoy!

I’m very excited about the new video I just published. It demonstrates a big time-saving technique I’ve been using recently with Apple Compressor.

In the video I share with you a way to get Compressor to send you a text message the moment your compression is complete.

This frees you up to work on other projects and you don’t have to keep checking your computer to see if the transcode job is done yet.

You could even be across town running errands and know when the compression job is done.

Personally I find this to be a big convenience, and it makes my workflow more efficient.

I just published this video to the membership library, so you’ll find it there.

If you’re not yet a member, click here to learn about a membership.

We love to see people talk in real life, so it makes sense that we’d like to see them in video too.

But it’s important to get the talking head shot right. There are several ways the shot can be wrong, so let’s talk about some ways to get it right…

Here are a few tips for talking head shots:

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