Kinemac will automatically create the in-between frames to smoothly animate the object transitioning between the two positions specified by the keyframes. For those unacquainted with the idea, here's how animation works in Kinemac: you select a specific object in the timeline (which is running across the bottom third of the window) and position it in different places on two different keyframes. If you've ever animated anything in Flash, you've got a good idea of how Kinemac's keyframes work. (You can also drag an image into those empty boxes to be mapped onto the text as a 2D texture.) So I dragged the footage into Kinemac from the Finder for use as my background movie:Īfter that, you should probably select your 3-D text and switch to the Textures tab on the right (represented by a rainbow-colored cube icon) to change the color of the text to your liking. It went unused and it's been lying around my harddrive for years, ostensibly for use in this project. However, years ago I shot some DV footage of analog TV feedback for a previous video project: A solid color probably works best if you have no other alternatives. You can choose whatever you'd like for the background. Once I type in what I want to animate, I'm going to change the font to something a little less ugly than Impact (in this case, Gotham Bold). I want to create some 3-D text, so I'm going to select the extruded "A" icon. Next, I'm going to select the cube icon at the top of the window to create a 3-D object. First, I'll open Kinemac and adjust some settings: the size I want my video to be (in this case, 960 x 540, or half the resolution of 1080p) and its duration (4 seconds long). I'm going to be creating a video bumper for AppleMatters by following Google's format: a simple animation of a logo, fast-paced and less than five seconds long. Read along to learn how to make these graphics, or scroll down to watch the finished product! If you want to buy it now, it costs $299, but that's still a lot cheaper than the $999 After Effects - and you get to support an independent developer in the process. If you got Kinemac as part of MacHeist, that's great. If you're a broke high school or college student with access to your school's copy of Final Cut Pro, this tutorial will show you how to make these kinds of graphics without breaking the bank. However, I don't own After Effects, I only have access to Final Cut Studio, as well as a 3-D graphics app called Kinemac that I bought for next to nothing during MacHeist 3. It's a cool effect, one that's achieved using Adobe After Effects, the industry standard software for most motion graphics. Feels like the company is branding its multi-million dollar joint ventures as "applying a filter in After Effects and calling it a day." This tutorial came about because it's kind of hilarious how Google seems to be announcing all of its new, mainstream, consumer products with the same style of gritty, analog-TV-feedback 3-D graphics in its video ads: first the Droid, and now Vevo.
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