The award-winning Digital Media Training Series™ presents Inside Motion 2. Inside Motion 2 includes our full training for Inside Motion plus an additional disc for Inside Motion 2.

Inside Motion 2 - Update Disc Inside Motion 2, the comprehensive training update to our Inside Motion training DVD, covers all the new features of Motion 2 that make it even easier to create professional quality, motion graphics. This 2 hour update provides detailed explanation and real world demonstrations of cutting edge features like The Replicator and Midi Assignable Parameters, as well as detailed explanations and examples of the Interoperability between Motion 2 and Final Cut Studio Applications on the one hand, and After Effects on the other. The training includes detailed explanation of 16-Bit and 32-Bit Float Rendering, and demonstrates the new filters, generators and path behaviors that have been newly reconfigured in Motion 2. Specially included media files let you work alongside our expert instructor to tackle real-world projects and problems.

Inside Motion Motion is the only motion graphics package with real-time previews, procedural behavior animation and Final Cut Pro HD integration...and Magnet Media's award-winning project based training will show you every one of the creative features: real-time design, interactive filters and effects, behaviors, particles, keyframing, and keying.

1. Introduction
2. Preferences and New Interface Features

1. Working with Particle Emitters
2. Replicator Overview
3. Replicating Original Content
4. Animating Replicators
5. Working with Pre-built Replicators
6. Customizing Pre-built Replicators

1. Creating 3D Illusion Using Filters *watch free video tutorial
2. New Filters and Image Units
3. The Keyframe Editor

1. Motion in After Effects
2. Animating with Midi
3. FxPlug Architecture
4. 32 bit vs. 16 bit
5. Open EXR and Float

1. Exporting in Motion 2
2. Creating a Template in Motion 2
   

1. Introduction to the Training
2. Introduction to Motion Graphics
3. Hardware Set-Up

1. Launching Motion
2. The File Browser
3. The Library
4. The Canvas
5. The Inspector
6. The Dashboard
7. The Timing Panel
8. The Layers Tab
9. Motion Preferences

1. Audio
2. Illustrating a Lower-Third Object
3. Positioning Objects in the Timeline
4. Basic Animation with Keyframes
5. Animating Using AutoKey
6. What are Behaviors
7. Animating Using Behaviors
8. Working in the Keyframe Editor
9. Behaviors vs Keyframes

1. Understanding Particle Systems
2. Creating a Particle System
3. Designing a Multi-Cell Particle System
4. Customizing a Prebuilt Particle System
5. Performance Optimization Tip

1. Working with Markers
2. Filters
3. Adding Texture to Text
4. Blend Modes

1. What is a Mask
2. Masking in Motion

1. Introduction to Roundtripping
2. Motion to Final Cut Pro
3. Final Cut Pro to Motion
4. Motion to DVD Studio Pro
5. Rountripping Tips

1. Keying

1. Intro to Gestures
2. Using Gestures

1. Output
2. Conclusion

Megan Cunningham - Inside Motion

Megan Cunningham, founder of Magnet Media, has worked as an editor, producer and post-production consultant for ten years. She has trained many editors to use high-end graphics and effects systems, and has participated in Apple’s Motion beta program.

Jim Kanter - Inside Motion 2

Jim Kanter has been working in computer graphics since 1985 and has been teaching digital filmmaking since 1994. Jim has won awards for filmmaking and broadcast journalism, and has served on the faculties of several universities. He is a popular presenter at trade shows, workshops, user groups, and Apple events. Jim currently serves as Training Director for the Digital Film Institute and continues to create content through his production company, D-Film. His clients include CNN, Turner Entertainment, Scripps Productions, The Weather Channel, NASA and the US Armed Forces, along with numerous television stations, production companies, and independent filmmakers.

The award-winning Digital Media Training Series™ presents Inside DVD Studio Pro 4. Inside DVD Studio Pro 4 includes our full training for Inside DVD Studio Pro 3 plus an additional disc for Inside DVD Studio Pro 4.

Inside DVD Studio Pro 4 - Update Disc The release of DVD Studio Pro 4 offers new power and flexibility in the creation of DVDs on your Mac, including an ability to work in High-Definition and the freedom to control the final build structure of your DVD, DVD Studio.  In this training, instructor Zeth Willie takes you through HD and more:  Dolby audio, VTS allocation, integrated workflow with Motion, improved scripting and more. Overview of HD Working in HD on your DVD Combining SD/HD projects Encoding to MPEG2-HD/h.264 Improving workflow Tips for Menu design with Widescreen formats VTS allocation Working with Dolby Audio Integration with Motion (Menu Loop Points/Alpha Switching) Improved Scripting features Partitioning GPRMs

Inside DVD Studio Pro 3 Inside DVD Studio Pro 3 covers everything you need to know to create professional DVD's! In this interactive 10+ hour training DVD, instructor Zeth Willie covers the new aspects of DVD Studio Pro 3, including how to make menus and buttons right from within the program, as well as authoring techniques for making DVD's with advanced features. You'll master such important topics as Importing Audio, Video, and Stills, Menu Templates, Styles and Shapes, Linking a Chapter Index, Creating a Slide Show, Adding Transitions, Multiple Angles, Adding Subtitles, Integrating assets from Photoshop and Motion—and more! While building a creative Rock Band DVD project, you’ll master this software—step by step! This project-based training is appropriate for users brand new to DVD authoring as well as those familiar with previous versions of DVD Studio Pro.

1. Introduction to Training
2. What is High Definition?
3. High-Definition DVD *watch NEW free video tutorial

1. Encoding HD Content
2. Building an HD Project
3. Building a Hybrid DVD
4. Designing for HD

1. VTS Allocation
2. Dual Layer DVD-ROM
3. Link Into Loop Points
4. GPRM Scripting

1. Distributed Rendering
2. Dolby Audio Encoding
3. Motion Integration

Disc 2 - Inside DVD Studio Pro 3

Introduction

Introduction to the Training


Basic Tutorial

1. Introduction
2. Project Planning
3. Importing Audio, Video and Stills
4. Introduction to Menu Templates
5. Basic Menu Elements
1. Background
2. Text
3. Drop Zones
4. Buttons
6. Working with Text
1. Moving Text Around
2. Changing Font, Size and Color
3. Creating and Using Text Styles
7. Working with Drop Zones
8. Working with Buttons
9. Linking Video to Buttons
1. Linking Play Movie to Main Video
2. Creating a Chapter Index
3. Removing Tracks in Graphical View
10. Creating a Slideshow
1. Creating a Slideshow
2. Adding Transitions to Slides *watch free video tutorial
11. Finishing the DVD

Zeth Willie

Zeth Willie is an experienced multi-media instructor, having taught classes in Film Production, Maya, After Effects and Digital Media at the New York Film Academy.

In 1998, he founded Cat Buks Productions, a company providing a full compliment of cross-platform multi-media services. Zeth's client list includes Ogilvy & Mather, GettyOne, ClearChannel, Bang Music, SchoolSports Magazine, Sasha and Digweed, Delta Heavy, Balance Promote and AnimationMD amongst others.

Zeth has also contributed to tutorials on Magnet Media's Zoom In DVD Series. Check out some of his tutorials here.

Inside Soundtrack Pro covers all aspects of Apple’s brand new audio application. You will learn to build sound effects, foley and score for a fictional movie trailer, and do it all non-destructively!

As both a stand-alone application and as part of Apple’s Final Cut Studio, Soundtrack Pro allows producers, video and film editors, motion graphics artists and DVD authors to work with on multitrack projects and audio file projects (with an actions based waveform editor), to score, sweeten, add sound effects, and find and fix problematic audio.

The training is appropriate for all users (both brand new to sound design as those familiar with other audio applications).

1. Introduction
2. Music and Audio Fundamentals
1. Audio Waveforms
2. Key Relationships
3. Beats vs Timecode
4. Audio Sample Rate and Bit Depth *watch free video tutorial
3. Overview of Interface and Preferences
   1. Standard Layout
   2. Preferences

1. Setting up a Multitrack Project
2. Manipulating Media in a Multitrack Project
3. Creating Backgrounds and Ambience
4. Creating Foley

1. Working with Recorded Audio
2. The Audio Waveform Editor
3. Copy and Pasting in the Waveform Editor
4. Applying Process Effects
5. Removing Noise with a Noise Print
6. Creating a Composite Audio Clip
   

1. Adding Sound Effects
2. Adding Music
3. Automation in a Multitrack Project
   1. Automating Envelopes
   2. Applying Realtime Effects
   3. Record Automation
   4. Using Timeslices
4. Ambient Noise and Zero Crossing

1. The Mixer
2. Mixing
   1. Adjusting Levels
   2. Creating Busses and Sends
   3. Stereo Space and Panning
3. Exporting Options in Soundtrack Pro

1. What is Surface Control
2. Setting up Surface Control
3. Recording a Voiceover using External Hardware

1. Interoperability in Motion 2
2. Interoperability in Final Cut Pro 5

Jem Schofield
Producer/Creative Director
Apple Certified Trainer

Jem is the president and creative director of Buttons Productions, a CREATIVE company that specializes in providing video production, DVD, web, audio and post solutions for a variety clients (with particular focus on the film, music and entertainment industries). Additionally, Clockwork Cinema, a newly formed division of Buttons Productions, provides DVD Producing, Design and Authoring services for independent and studio feature films.

He is an Apple Certified Trainer in DVD Studio Pro and Motion and teaches DVD authoring, sound design and motion graphics, around the country, when not trying to meet ungodly deadlines!

Jem has extensive music and audio experience in both performance and post-production workflows. His fascination with music began early in life and in school he was part of a small jazz band. He continued performing with a variety of groups after completing his education and has since created original music for a diverse client base (for web, DVD and video based delivery). He now counts Soundtrack Pro as major component in his audio toolkit.

You can find Jem as a leader in the Apple DVD Studio Pro forum and the Apple Motion forum at CreativeCOW.net, as a writer of feature articles and reviews for P3: Production Update magazine, and regularly admitting that he is becoming far too geeky for his or his family's own good!