Creating Cinemagraphs in FCPX and Motion

Posted on by Jeff Riegel, Producer/Editor

September 9, 2014

by FCP.co

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What on earth is a cinemagraph and how do you make one? This new episode of MacBreak Studio explains all.

Well what can we say! Mark says that we were the inspiration for this latest episode of MacBreak Studio. Cinemagraphs can be simple to make and look great when when used in the right place.

In this latest episode of MacBreak Studio, Mark Spencer shows Steve Martin how to build a simple cinemagraph in Final Cut Pro X and a more complicated one in Motion.

If you would like to know more about Motion, make sure you check out Mark’s excellent tutorials. If you are new, we can recommend this:

Getting Started in Motion

If you would like to see the sequence Mark referred to in the opening, take a look at the VT package called ‘Time’ that was aired on the BBC about 15 months ago. More details on how those cinemagraphs were created in this article on FCP.co Extra points for spotting Stephen Fry in the audience!

 

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For two decades, Jeff Riegel was a senior level Producer/Editor for the Department of Defense and various government contractors in Northern Virginia. Outside of the workplace, Jeff keeps himself busy with the creation of festival worthy documentaries "Tori Nelson: Fighting for Her Future" and the once nominated and two-time Emmy award winning "A Journey of Education and Remembrance." His short film "The Great Realisation" captured the eyes at 18 international film festivals with various winning honors; a poem that takes on heavy themes such as fevered capitalism, man-made ecological issues, digital addiction during the global Covid blight. Jeff is looking for funding investors and co-producing "The Lost Clipper," a two+ decades project about the first hijacking in U.S. history and the search for those 15 lost souls abducted in 1938, the true first act of war with Japan. Filming takes him to Micronesia, Guam, Hawaii, Canada, and locations across the U.S. (see www.LostClipper.com) He enjoys creating media-marketing social networking campaign for personalities such as 13-time world boxing champion Tori Nelson, Netflix's "Narcos" personalities Steve Murphy and Javier Pena, and renowned landscape photographer Frank Lee Ruggles. Jeff is eager to attack any project head-on. Jeff's Motto: think beyond convention...and consider it done!