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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

Sequence Text


There is one text behavior that rules them all! It couldn't be said better when we look at Sequence Text. All the animations you see in the various categories started from Sequence Text. Let's see how we can make some custom text animations!

Getting ready

Double-click on the 05_06 project from the exercise folder for this chapter. This project consists of a background and some static text. We're going to customize an animation to have the text come on and off the screen while exploring some of the various options available to us by using sequence text.

How to do it...

Let's begin by adding the Sequence Text behavior.

  1. Select Text in the Layers tab and press Command + 2 to go to the Library. Select Behaviors | Text Animation | Sequence Text. Click the Apply button.

  2. With the text still selected, press F2 to go to the Behaviors tab of the Inspector. At first, the sequence text has no default animation. We need to pick a parameter we want to change. After adjusting the value, Sequence...