In the last Motion tutorial, we created the first two Drop Zones for our craft trailer template. The Drop Zones were placeholders for the background image and the intro clip. In this tutorial, we will add a transition to the end of the Drop Zone for the intro clip.

Now that we have the Layers pane hierarchy for our template planned out, we can begin to build the template from scratch. In the last few tutorials for this project, we will do just that.

Now that we have finished the preflight decisions made for our Motion craft template, we need to decide how we will use the Layers pane to organize our video project. Naming and organizing the layers is important.

In this tutorial, we will continue to dissect our craft product trailer prototype in preparation of creating a Motion template. We can then use the template to create other craft product trailers with less time and effort.

Once you have created the perfect craft product trailer in Apple Motion, with the best images pans, text and transitions, its time to use that as your prototype for a Motion template with drop zones.

If you need to create many craft videos showing how to use your craft products, you can save a lot of time by using a Motion 5 template and drop zones. Let’s see what our options are for doing just that. For those of you unfamiliar with templates, let’s talk a little about them.

In this Motion tutorial, we will finish the craft logo reveal by adding the tagline to the end of the video. For this craft company, the tagline is made up from three words that tell the customers what they will find if they visit the online store.

In the last Motion 5 tutorial, we added the company name to our craft product logo reveal and animated the fade in animation with Keyframes on the Timeline. Now we will add the masking technique that will reveal the second part of the company name.

We started working on our logo reveal for a craft business, by animating the background image. In this tutorial, we will add the logo text to the project. We will need to add the logo text in two parts, so that we can add the masking technique to one part of the logo.

One of the Motion 5 features that you will used to create many effects is the masking technique. In this tutorial, we will take a look at a simple masking technique for a logo reveal for a craft business.