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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

Changing the text format


The Format pane of text has several options available to us before we even begin to explore the style and layout options of our text. Let's explore some of these features.

Getting ready

Launch Motion and choose a Broadcast 720p, 29.97 project with a 10 second duration. Press Shift + Z to fit the Canvas window.

How to do it...

Let's create some text and head to the Inspector to change its format.

  1. Press T or select the T icon on the toolbar to select the text tool as shown in the following screenshot. Click somewhere close to the center of the Canvas. Type Playing With Text and press Esc to exit the text entry mode. Use the dynamic guides to help you center your text on the screen. Press F7 to show the HUD.

  2. While we could switch our text in the Format pane, it's actually beneficial to do it in the HUD. Click and hold down the font menu (just above the alignment options). Scroll through the various options as shown in the following screenshot and notice how your text updates...