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Apple Motion 5 Cookbook

By : Nicholas Harauz
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Apple Motion 5 Cookbook

By: Nicholas Harauz

Overview of this book

Let's face it, people like images that move. Whether you see images on a moving billboard, walk into a bank with an LCD screen, watch TV, or surf the Web, motion graphics are everywhere. With an even greater demand to integrate motion graphics in just about every type of video or interactive content there is, this book will help you get there with Motion 5. It's all about creating eye-catching titles, transitions, and effects!"Apple Motion 5 Cookbook" contains exercises for the beginner and seasoned motion graphics user. You will learn how to navigate Motion's interface and quickly grasp the tools available to you while creating sophisticated and sleek animations in both 2D and 3D environments. Not forgetting visual effects, we will also explore motion tracking and green screen techniques that will help you composite like a pro. Let's launch the application, grab a cup of coffee, and get started on this exciting journey!The exercises will take you right from creating your very first Motion project through to export. You will learn how to navigate quickly and efficiently through Motion's complex interface and toolsets so that you can focus oncreating your masterpiece!You will learn how to create a new project and import material into that project from the File Browser and Motion's vast and rich content library. From there, you will learn to manipulate and animate these source files using Motion's behaviors, classic keyframing techniques, adding filters, and master the built-in tools such as particle systems that will knock your socks off! Last but not least, you will export your projects to a variety of different formats including DVD, as a Final Cut Pro generator, and the Web.The "Apple Motion 5 Cookbook" contains downloadable content for each chapter and is packed with screenshots and illustrations. After reading this book, you'll be creating motion graphics and visual effects in no time!
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Apple Motion 5 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating an effect for FCP X


Almost all the effects in the FCP X library come from Motion 5. Let's create our own effect in Motion and bring it to FCP X with some parameters that we can tweak.

Getting ready

Locate some video footage on your computer that you'd like to add an effect to and that is about 10 seconds in length. Launch Motion. From the welcome screen, select a Final Cut Effect project. From the Preset, choose a Broadcast HD 1080 project with a Frame Rate of 29.97 and a Duration of 10 seconds. Click on Open. Motion's interface launches. Make sure you are at the beginning of your project. Drag the footage from your File Browser over to the Effect Source well. When you see a hooked arrow, release the mouse. The placeholder now gets updated with your footage. Select the Canvas and press Shift + Z to fit the video to the window.

How to do it...

  1. We're going to add three effects to this clip and then choose to publish the parameters we want the FCP X user to have access to. While the effects...