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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

Copying filters and applying filters to a group


Motion 5 gives us incredible flexibility when we work with filters. By using simple copying and pasting procedures, we are able to easily move filters in between layers and groups.

How to do it...

  1. From this chapter's project folder, open the 02_04 project.

  2. The project consists of two Aqua Balls from Motion's library. One of them has a Light Rays filter on it, which we applied in the previous recipe. We would like to apply this filter to the other Aqua Ball, too.

  3. Select the Light Rays filter in the Layers tab. Go to the Edit menu and choose Copy. Select the Aqua Ball without the filter and go to the Edit menu and choose Paste, as shown in the following screenshot:

  4. Let's add a blur filter to both the Aqua Balls as well. Rather than apply a filter to each ball, we can apply the filter to the group they're both in. Select Group 1 in the Layers tab. Click on the Library tab. Locate the Filters category and select it. Select the Blur subcategory. Select...