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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

Controlling the filter order


Like any good recipe, the order in which we follow steps can make or break the meal we eat. The same can hold true for filters in Motion. In some instances, if we apply one filter before another, it can have a very different result than if the order was reversed. Let's take a look at a simple example where this applies.

How to do it...

  1. Navigate to this chapter's folder and open the 02_05 project.

  2. This project consists of an Earth Transparent layer from Motion's Content library. Click the disclosure triangle to reveal its filters and press F3 to go to the Filters tab of the Inspector.

  3. There are two filters on the layer. One filter was meant to colorize the earth map, while the other created a border around the map with a blue color. This problem arises because we added the Colorize filter after the Border filter, and this is affecting both the border and the layer. Select the Simple Border filter in the Layers tab and drag it up so that it's on top of the Colorize...