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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

Customizing a Motion Path


The Motion Path behavior is very versatile. It creates a path for an object to travel along and is customizable.

How to do it...

  1. Let's launch Motion and create a new Motion project with a Preset of Broadcast 1080p. Set Duration to 6 seconds.

  2. Press the Command + 2 shortcut to go to the Library. Go to Particle Emitters and select the Pulsing Laser Star as shown in the following screenshot. Click on Apply.

  3. Press the Space bar to play back your project. It's a simple star that twinkles in the middle of your Canvas. We're going to make it travel along a path. Click the gear icon on the bottom-right corner of the Canvas and choose Motion Path under Basic Motion as shown in the following screenshot. Press the F7 key to show the HUD if it's not already displayed.

  4. Zoom out on your Canvas by pressing the Command + - shortcut. Notice that with the Motion Path behavior selected, you can see a line in the Canvas that has two points; one point is in the center and the other is off...