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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

Deleting and disabling keyframes


When you first begin animating with keyframes, you may add one, two, or even hundreds of keyframes by accident! Also, you might want to toggle the animations you create on and off to see how your video looked before and after the animations. Let's look at a few ways we can achieve that.

How to do it...

  1. Locate the Chapter 4 folder and navigate to the 04_02 project. Double-click on it to open.

  2. Play back the project by pressing the Space bar. This is the same picture of the cat used in the last recipe, except keyframes have been added to Opacity and Rotation. At the beginning of the animation, the image fades in from black, and over the 10 second duration, the picture scales and rotates slightly. We can identify all the keyframe parameters in the Properties tab by looking for any number that is highlighted in red. See this for yourself by pressing F1 with the still selected, using the following screenshot as a guide:

  3. Let's say we want to temporarily disable an...