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Typically an API stands for Application Programming Interface which is how data is transferred across a network. In this video, we are going over a different API. This API is more of a list of internal functions/methods that can be used to make the animations

@tomkotech thanks tomkotech; you learn something new everyday 😎

So I have gone back to this with some future projects, and you are correct. In this video, I was trying to learn about audio for the first time and missed a few things but have since gotten it working.

Of course, if there are any other questions please let me know.

Thanks, glad you enjoy then. This series was me learning motion canvas, I do plan to re-create this series again with a more professional feel as if I was actually teaching motion canvas. I don't have a timeline yet, want to get a few videos of some other ideas out first.

Excellent question, I just posted an entire video talking about it: th-cam.com/video/9dTw9di1gzU/w-d-xo.html

I agree but I wanted to finish going through all of the docs first. The 1st projects video will be on November 22nd. In this video, I will be showing how to make a Rest API call within Motion Canvas and then the following week, we will be using all of the knowledge we have learned to create our first project on December 5th. From there the channel will change to more professional and polished looking videos using the skills I learned with Motion Canvas.

@@tomkotech Nice, really looking forward to that.

Thanks, I am glad you love it. If you want to see anything else, please let me know.

Thanks. If there were any other things you would like to see, please let me know.

I understand the confusion, this video was the only 2 parter that I did. Here is part 2: th-cam.com/users/liveL7T4tHL9JJM I created this video because yields and generators are how motion canvas works at it's very core and I wanted to go more in depth then what is normally out there for motion canvas. I also thought it was helpful to talk about this topic without the JSX and other motion canvas components to show people that this is not a feature of motion canvas but a core feature of NodeJS that motion canvas was built on. Part 1 (this video) was me trying to explain how they work without the motion canvas layer and additions. Part 2 was me going through the same thing but with the added layer of motion canvas.

@@tomkotech So I watched the second part and it's pretty much just you reading the documentation and going back to the unrelated code you wrote in the first one.. I'm sure you have a reason for making this video but it just focuses on two commands that motion canvas uses without any context to learn from and doesn't contribute to knowing how motion canvas works at all. This video distracts from the topic at hand (and in the title): learning how to animate with motion canvas. I opted to just read the same documentation you did in the second video, and I feel that whatever you were trying to teach in this video is not the same as what the audience would choose to be taught. I get where you were going... but only after having experienced reading the docs and trying the examples. I would have gotten there faster had I not watched this at all and just read the docs alongside you for the second half of the second video. If I were trying to learn those particular commands, without the context of motion canvas, I would have enjoyed this video. Having read the documentation, it's better to just read the docs and learn directly through the context of motion canvas, because the context is the only part of learning those two commands that is important to how motion canvas uses them... which is neatly explained in the documentation. Were you to delete the first video entirely and cut the first 10-ish minutes of the second video, and all sections referring to the not-at-all-related-to-motion-canvas-in-any-way-whatsoever code - then that would have explained everything in it's proper context. For that second half of the second video, it was genuinely fun to learn alongside you when there was real learning to be done. For that part, I wish I'd found you during your livestream.

@@marsrevolutionary Thank you for the valuable feedback, as you can see this video series was to learn motion canvas myself and show/teach others along the way. I am a new channel that is just starting out. At the time, I thought talking about this topic outside of motion canvas would be helpful but I see how it can be confusing or not needed in the context of motion canvas. The rest of the videos in this series are more of what you like which is me going through the documents. I also have another series which is me converting my online portfolio from HTML to NextJS. Once this motion canvas series and that one is done, I do plan to take some time and re-make the motion canvas ones using motion canvas which are more professional and not just me talking about random things which are un-related. I always open to good feedback like this, thanks.

Thanks and I have taught several classes before, if you like this content then you will definitely like what I have planned next.

@@tomkotech yessss

Sorry for the delay but I will be adding more content soon.

Tonight, the next video it coming out. Please check it out th-cam.com/video/yA2ZqIir_qQ/w-d-xo.html

Thanks, I am planning to continue the series.

@@tomkotech thanks a lot. I will be waiting.

Tonight, the next video it coming out. Please check it out th-cam.com/video/yA2ZqIir_qQ/w-d-xo.html

Thanks

Glad to help, if there is anything else you want to see please let me know.

Glad you are excited, my whole goal is to spread programming to more people so I started with Motion Canvas since it was me learning something new as well. I really wanted to show how it really is to learn something new.