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  What do all the pros use to make those great looking videos on YouTube? Maybe they have a $5000 camera, expensive editing software, tons of crew members, and all that. Well, probably so, but that doesn't mean that the newbie or little guy like us has to suffer. With the tools you already have you can create a fine looking product right there in your own house. Green screen (bed sheet or poster board) check, iPhone check, iMovie (free) check. Now lets get to filming. With sites like pexels.com and unsplash.com you can download free images and videos to make any production look top notch. iMovie allows you to use those images and videos for backgrounds by simply adding them to your timeline, then put your iPhone video on top, now in the top corner of the editing software you'll see two rectangles overlaying each other, click there and then click green/blue screen. Now each of those tools allows you to fine tune the background image. Play around with it and you will be a pro in

  Apple Motion is the Apple alternative to Adobe After Effects. At a one price cost of $50 this software packs a punch. With built in effects as well as the ability to design your own effects and titles the $50 price tag is well worth it. This software has motion tracking, camera angles, lighting effects, filters, overlays, and more. Watch the video above to learn your first effect and go from there. If you get into the software and navigate around for a bit then you will be a wiz in no time.  After you get used to the software, you can use this to create stunning effects and titles to up your video editing game. Although this is no replacement for Adobe After Effects, this software is much cheaper and one price. It can also do most of the things After Effects can do with no problem. Try it out and I am sure you’ll enjoy the program as well as the price. 

  This is the best beginners guide to FCPX that I know how to make. I cover from importing to exporting and the basic features in between. Although I don’t cover music, masking, plug-ins, and other advanced features this is good enough to get even the most green user up and running. I hope you learn and create. Thank you for watching. 

Looking back at the post about iPad Pro use for creatives I decided to take a stronger look into iMovie. Since even a $300-$400 entry level iPad can run iMovie without any trouble and this software is free, anyone can be creative on a budget. The software comes with some great effects for creating movies, presentations, trailers, and more. The titles effects and chroma key are easy to learn and use as well as the interface is user friendly to navigate. The iPad comes with the Apple iWork Suite of software like Pages, Numbers. and Keynote. These are all equivalents to the Office Suite form Microsoft Word, Excel, and Powerpoint. However, many don’t realize that Apple also gives users the creative apps of GarageBand and iMovie for free as well. Buying and iPad for under $400 and having all this great software including the updates, iOS now known as iPadOS is a great value. Today using all this software including mouse support and keyboard with an Apple Pencil truly makes a huge differ