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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 a lower third for FCP X


Sometimes you may want to use something from Motion in one of your FCP X projects. It's very common to have projects where we need to utilize the same text design across the project making slight tweaks to it along the way. This exercise is a preview to Chapter 11, Publishing your Work to FCP X, which goes into much greater detail about publishing and rigging your work for FCP X.

Getting ready

Under the exercise folder for this chapter, open the 05_12 project. Play back the project. A lower third moves from offscreen to onscreen while some placeholder text fades in. It then stays static and disappears offscreen again. What you may not see is that it's set up to be used in FCP X. If you take a look at the project extension right above the Canvas, you'll notice it's a .moti file. When creating this project, I chose to save it as Final Cut Title in order to have it available in FCP X'S media browser.

How to do it...

Let's get a closer look at this project.

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