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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

Offset tracking


Unlike the last recipe, sometimes the point you want to track isn't so easy. In fact, the point you need might become obscured by an object in the foreground for a series of frames or even end up going offscreen. For this, the Analyze Motion behavior gives us an option to offset our tracker with the click of a button.

Getting ready

Under the exercise files relating to this chapter, double-click on the 09_03 project. Playback the project and notice it's where we left off in the last recipe. Now we would like to analyze another ball's movement in the clip and attach some text to it as well.

How to do it...

We'll begin this recipe by analyzing some motion in our image first.

  1. Select the video clip in the Layers tab. Press Command + 2 to go to the Library. Go to Behaviors | Motion Tracking | Analyze Motion. Click on Apply at the top of the Library. The behavior is added to the clip.

  2. Rename the new behavior orange analyze. Rename the other to green analyze.

  3. Make sure the Analyze Motion...