- If you're a mobile content creator,
you need to know about Alight Motion.
And I'm gonna show you how
you can get started with it in this video.
And I've also got some free codes
that I'm gonna give you
so you can get it for free.
Now, in order to get those codes,
I'm gonna put them up
in the corners, randomly.
They're just gonna flash.
I'm not gonna tell you how many there are.
But there's a good handful.
First come first serve.
And it's gonna give you 30 day access
to all the features, to Alight Motion.
Now, in addition to the codes,
down in my description,
I have links to Alight Motion
for both Android and iOS users.
So, make sure to grab those codes
and head down there,
install the app
and have fun with it.
But I'm gonna back it up here and play a clip,
when I sat down with Douglas
from Alight Motion at VidSummit.
We went upstairs,
we found a quiet hallway, we sat down
and he showed me the basics of the app,
how to animated my name
and how to get started with the app.
So, I'm gonna play that now.
But remember to keep an eye on the corners
and watch out for the codes,
because that's how you're gonna get
your free version of Alight Motion.
So, Doug, who is Alight Motion for
and what can it do?
- Alight Motion is for anyone
who wants to have custom graphics,
in their videos.
It's for anyone, anywhere.
- Okay, can you key frame with it?
- Yes, definitely.
The whole point of the application
is to do key frame animation.
In fact, it's just three simple steps,
add, adjust, animate
and then you're done.
- Can you make YouTube intros with it?
- Definitely.
- Definitely, you can?
- Definitely.
- And you can even make YouTube thumbnails with it?
- Yes, yes.
You definitely can.
- And you can edit your videos with it.
So, get your phone out
and let's show everybody how to use it.
- All right, great.
This here is the Alight Motion app, main interface.
And I'm just going to start a new project.
You can see here,
on the project creation screen,
you can pick your custom aspect ratio
as well as resolution and other things.
But I'm just going to
do a regular 6930FBS project with a transparent background.
This here is the main interface,
it works like most other video editing
and animation programs.
There's the timeline down here, the preview here.
What we're going to do today is
we're just gonna make a simple, wipe transition
that's perfect for if you want to
either transition between scenes or if you want an intro,
especially YouTube style intro.
All we need to do to make this intro
or transition is to put a shape on the screen,
make it full screen and I'm also going to
change the color on it to green,
just because I like green.
- [Dee] Green's a good color.
- [Doug] Green is a good color.
Solid.
Now, what we're going to do is we're going to add effects
and actually, in this app we have a large number of effects,
over a 100 as a matter of fact
and what we're going to do is because
we're going to do a wipe, we're actually
going to go down here to the wipe effect.
- [Dee] All right so Doug, so if someone downloads this app
and they're not ready to pay for the app yet,
they just want to experiment with it,
what's the difference between free and paid?
- [Doug] Well actually, the free app contains
pretty much everything that the paid app has
except for a few minor differences.
There is a watermark on the free version
and some of the effects, if we go through the effects here,
you can see some of the effects have this symbol here,
these are premium effects.
These ones only unlock if you have a subscription.
Also, you have the ability to share your project
in an editable form if you have the premium version.
- [Dee] Okay, so that's not a big difference.
Really, just a watermark really.
- [Doug] Yeah, that's the major one.
- [Dee] So, continue.
- [Doug] Right, so, right now we have the wipe effect on
because that's what we want to do
and adding an effect is simple,
you just tap on the item that you want to add
and then add effect and go through the effect list,
we have over 100 and right here,
when I open up wipe you can see
the basic style of Alight Motion effects here.
Right now we have a start slider and an end slider.
What the start slider will do is it'll remove,
it'll start wiping from the front
and this here of course is transparent.
You can put whatever you want.
- [Dee] That's really smart.
- [Doug] And then the end is,
oops sorry I'm going the wrong way.
With the ends you can take it off like this.
So what I'm going to do in this particular case is--
- [Dee] And you can key frame it along the way?
- [Doug] That's exactly what we're going to do right now.
So every property, every property of every effect has,
is key frameable and what you can do,
for example so right now, let's say I want this
to come in from the left to the right
and then I want it to leave from the left to the right.
So what I would do in that case,
I would set the play head to zero
and then I would take this and move it all the way down,
just move it all the way down
and then I would add a key frame here
and I can move to let's say, the one second mark
and then what I can do is I can
then move this back the other way.
Uh, until we get to the end.
And when you've added a key frame,
any changes you do after that
will automatically add more key frames.
And now because we have two key frames
that have different values,
you will see animation between them.
It automatically animates.
- [Dee] So you can swipe in and put a background in
and put your text on top for an intro.
- [Doug] Yes.
Exactly, exactly.
And I'm going to do the same thing really quickly here.
I'm gonna switch to start,
which is a different type of key frame.
And actually, let's say we want it to be like this,
let's say I want at the one second mark,
I want to start swiping,
I want to have the wipe exit.
Right, I can do that there
and then swipe this all the way up.
And so between the start and the end sliders,
we've created something that swipes on and then swipes off.
Now of course we could do it a little bit longer
and make it, you know, last as long as you would like
but this is the basic idea.
Swipe on, swipe off.
- [Dee] That's really easy.
- [Doug] Swipe on, swipe off.
- [Dee] It actually looks a little bit,
so I had this little swishy thing that goes on with
my name at the beginning of my video.
Its similar to that, but with multiple colors coming in.
- [Doug] Right.
- [Dee] So you could actually rebuild my intro with that.
- [Doug] We could.
- [Dee] That would be dope actually.
- [Doug] Okay, that's challenge accepted.
- [Dee] Not in this video but in a future video.
And so we could create my intro, my little transition
and we could put it in a file
and let people download it and use it.
- [Doug] Yeah, sure, sure, definitely.
All right, well challenge accepted.
So what we're going to do now though, this is very simple.
What I'd like to do is just make it
a little bit nicer and just show you some
of the other effects that are involved.
I'm going to take this here and turn the feather
all the way up and we'll see why in a little bit.
Feather just makes the edges really soft.
So we have the soft edge over here and a soft edge here.
Oh actually, that's too much, it's viewable on screen.
There we go, ah, that's probably good.
So we have this here like that.
Great, now what I'm going to do is
I'm going add just one more effect.
And this effect, and as you can see here
there a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot of effects
but I'm going to add this effect called Hexagon Array
and that doesn't really look like much right now.
You can see the swipe on and the swipe off
but what we can do is with a few settings,
we can change the coloring to layer.
And then what we can do is we can go
Scale Using Layer Alpha and what that will do,
oh, and blend is Overflow.
And now you have a hexagon building wipe.
- [Dee] How cool is that?
- [Doug] Yeah, and you can actually take down,
let's see which one is it?
Well we could actually make this a little bit smaller
so it's a little bit finer grained
and we can then also change the Line Width,
that's what I was looking for, to nothing.
And then you have something that goes from
solid to have a cool edge here, like that.
Back and forth wipe like that.
We can also add something like,
let's say we wanna add like RGB Split
or something like that to make it look cooler
and then turn up the strength on that
and change the different patterns
and then you can get something like
actually cool effects on it.
Well depending on, depending on what you have.
- [Dee] So this is great for making intros.
- [Doug] Yeah, definitely.
- [Dee] You could really customize it,
really fine tune an intro and make it something
that's like legit your own.
- [Doug] Yes, definitely.
And so this here is obviously a really quick introduction
but just to show you.
- [Dee] And you can add text on top of that
and animate your text and everything.
- [Doug] Actually, yes you can and I have something here
that took me about 15 minutes to make.
- [Dee] Okay, let's see it.
- [Doug] And there we go.
(laughs)
- [Dee] I love it, check that out.
- [Doug] And so, right now all this is,
is we have--
- [Dee] I swear if that would have said Nick,
I would of just like walked away.
(laughs)
- [Doug] Well, I know who you are luckily.
So what this is, is it's basically the white
that we saw before, you can see the RGB Split
working a little bit more effectively
because I took more time with the colors.
And then we have the texture as well.
But if you have a channel,
where you want to have sort of like an intro,
splash and then you wanna have your titling
and then you want to have the video start,
you could have your quick highlights
or the funny parts here and then you have your custom intro
and then your fading out into your video.
- So that was actually pretty easy.
When you first open up the app
it seems a little bit intimidating, right?
It does, but seeing you operate the app
and it's three steps.
- It's three steps.
Add, adjust, animate.
Everything in the app can be done by just putting
what you want on the screen,
moving it to where you want to have it initially
or be whatever time
and then you just animate it with key frames.
- All right Doug, thanks for showing us how to use the app.
This is really exciting.
I'm putting links in the description below
so you can download this app on your device
and get started with Alight Motion.
As always thank you so much for watching
and I'll see you in the next video.