Ash Lawson | Video Editor

🎬 Excited to share my showreel from 2020! This collection highlights some of my favorite projects and the creative journeys I've been on. Stay tuned—new work is on the way, and I can’t wait to show you what’s next! 🚀 #Showreel #VideoEditing #MotionGraphics

@Alex4D Wait, so how do you enable QT previews in finder for Motion templates? I never knew this was an option.

FYI: since 2011, Motion templates for Final Cut have optionally included QuickTime previews available in the Finder. As well as one-time-purchase (with free updates for life) versions, Final Cut Pro and Motion are now part of the Apple Creator Studio service.

@ChelseaFC Blueco out!

Full-time. #CFC | #CHEMCI

@Alex4D Keynote interaction would be awesome! It wouldn't take many features to take Motion from good to great. Apple using a distort mechanism instead of H/W sliders for the Shapes generator makes me think they're worried about breaking existing Libraries.

@FCPMotionFX A few, such as… …parent projects where groups, layers and media shared between many templates can be stored in one place and you can define how to generate a whole bunch of templates when a shared element is changed. …the ability for Motion to read and modify Keynote docs

My best Apple interaction? In 2015 I posted a list of 71 feature requests for Apple Motion. In September 2016 when I first met the Motion product manager, she said she had it pinned up on the wall of their office and that she hoped for more ideas. alex4d.com/notes/item/app…

@Alex4D Be interesting to try and recreate this using Motion. If only I had the time.

Apple should release the CS source files that were used to make this video. The Pages script, the Keynote storyboard, the Pixelmator layered bitmaps and vector artwork, the Motion animations, the Logic Pro audio project, the Final Cut Pro library and the Compressor preset.

@FEELSxart Beautiful. Are you making these in AE or Cavalry?

feels

@Thru_18 @Affinity @canva Brilliant video man

Affinity followed me, so I had to drop a vid for them 😅😋 @affinity x @canva

@aftermagics Showreelz is 404

Motion design inspiration sites👇🏼👨‍💻: > Dribbble - tons of loops, micro animations and style trends > Behance - full motion projects, case studies, and high quality studio work > Inspiration Grid - curated motion section with diverse visual styles > Motionographer - industry level features, breakdowns, and trends > Showreelz - video focused motion design inspiration feed.

@thefinalcutbro Looks awesome man.

New video on the channel shows how to create this animation using Motion, then publishing it all over to FCP where you can dynamically change everything about the title!

Custom GPS tracking map HUD and lower thirds in Apple Motion for a Disney walkthrough. 3D Camera and Match Move kept the window static while the map rotates with footage. Client got reusable Motion templates for future videos.

Commercial work for @TheLightGuys - Christmas light installation services, Bakersfield CA. 30 seconds, straight to the point.

@Alex4D No problem using references but I hate the whole “….has to edit in Iman Gadzhi style”.

This is like asking ‘I’m looking for a writer who can do this style.’ Editors edit. New editors have to do other things to finish videos. The better the editor you are, the more likely you’ll be working with storyboarders, motion graphics designers, composers… etc.

@fredberria Look awesome, id love to try it!

After Effects is a lol-maker. So I built Reach² to fix a part of it. Comment or hit me up to get the free Beta. #AfterEffects #MotionDesign and #MoGraph

@CoffinMedia @PhoenixDiocese @RealCandaceO My wife is starting to think he might actually be alive. I don’t doubt we live in crazy times but I just don’t believe Charlie would be the type of person to do this and even if he was, close friends and family would have to keep it hushed forever.

For real: Is Charlie Kirk still alive? When you call the @PhoenixDiocese, no one can confirm, as reported by @RealCandaceO two week ago, that Charlie Kirk was given a Catholic Mass and/or burial in a Catholic cemetery. One more detail: All internet/Grok searches lead to a Hansen Mortuary in Phoenix (even though the stated morticians who processed his remains said to be Orem UT), but the lady there just told me "we were instructed not to give out any information about that." Same dead end with the Maricopa County, AZ cemetery records. No proof exists that Charlie Kirk is dead. Now before you emote with abuse and I block you, use your head and think. Do you own research. PLEASE NOTE: I am NOT talking about reluctance to share the exact grave location, only the absolute lack of confirmation of his death at all.

@Alex4D @novikoff Makes so much sense to utilise Motions abilities in Keynote.

@novikoff I hope that a future version of Apple’s Motion app will be able to open Keynote documents. From storyboard to advanced real-time animation.

Funny, seems Apple Keynote is one single editor in the world with correct Continous Round corners. Same as in the iOS. So I can copy everything from here as a PDF and reuse in Figma or Rive. PS: also I love how good colours works here.

@thefinalcutbro The Affinity release was fantastic news. We’ll probably never get an .motn export option but I still use it daily. What do you think of v3?

Negative content is absolutely exhausting. Tell me some good news!

@mokshhuu Nice, what is column D?

Editors don't forget to do outreach!! Don't just edit... Network, reach out, repeat. that's how you grow 🙌

@Alex4D Been working with printers. The staff are using Affinity. The business is still operates in the Adobe bubble but it’s only a matter of time.

Quark XPress user in 1999: “It doesn’t matter if InDesign crashes much less and gets updated regularly; what matters is that you can’t share those files as standard with 3rd parties. Do your clients use it? Do your printers use it…” Please can we keep the current monoculture?

Affinity Studio Vector Tools

@Affinity Wow! Well that was unexpected. Well done Affinity.

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