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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

Moving a still's anchor point and keyframing its scale


FCP X and Motion both allow you to animate stills using keyframes. Let's look at how similar the process is between the two applications. As we dive deeper into the chapter, we'll see the rich features Motion has to take your animations above and beyond FCP X's capabilities when it comes to animation.

How to do it...

  1. Launch Motion and set the Preset to Broadcast 720p, Frame Rate to 29.97, and Duration to 10 seconds. Press Command + 1 to go to the File Browser and locate the Chapter 4 – Exercise folder on your computer. Open the 04_01 subfolder and select the photo inside it. Choose Import. The photo should be in the middle of the Canvas, as shown in the following:

  2. We want to zoom in on the cat's right eye slowly over time. While we can easily keyframe the scale and position to achieve this effect, we're going to adjust the anchor point of the image to determine what point we will scale into. Be default, on still images and video, the anchor...