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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

Exporting an alpha channel and video separately


Just as with image sequences, some VFX applications can make use of the video and its alpha channel as separate files. Motion gives you the option to do just that in the Render menu under Export settings.

Getting ready

Locate a Motion project you've worked with in one of the previous exercises. Double-click to open it. Go through the project and make sure the play range is at the beginning and end of your Timeline. If it's not, click on Option + X to reset the play range.

How to do it...

  1. From the Share menu, choose Export Movie.

  2. Under the Options tab, customize your settings as you see fit. Click on the Render tab.

  3. In the Render tab next to Color, choose Alpha as shown in the following screenshot. This will export out the alpha channel separately. You can also choose whether the alpha is pre-multiplied or not by clicking on the checkbox underneath.

  4. Click the Next button and find a place you want to save it to your system. Choose Save. The file renders...