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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

Using Sequence Paint


To take your brush stroke animations to the next level, look no further than Sequence Paint. Like Sequence Text, all prebuilt Paint animations come from this behavior. In this exercise, we'll look at some of the options available to us with this behavior.

Getting ready

Open the 06_03 project from the exercise folder of this chapter.

How to do it...

In this exercise, we're going to animate some brush stokes on top and underneath some text.

  1. Press Shift + Z if necessary to fit the project to the Canvas window. Play back the project. The play range has been set to play the first 3 seconds of the project. The text grows over time while the brush stroke is waiting to be animated. Select Paint in the Layers tab and click on the gear icon underneath the Canvas. Select Sequence Paint from under Shape, as indicated in the following screenshot. Trim the behavior so it ends at 2 seconds.

  2. Press the F2 key to go to the Behaviors tab of the Inspector. If you went through the recipe on Sequence...