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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

An intro to Text behaviors


So far, the behaviors we've added in Motion have had no restrictions. It means we can apply them to any movie, still, PSD file, or Text object, and it will work. The next few behaviors we'll be exploring are restrictive, meaning you can only apply them to particular objects. For instance, particle behaviors can be applied to particles and text behaviors can only be applied to text. While there's an entire chapter dedicated to text, here's a sneak peak at animating text with behaviors.

How to do it...

  1. From the exercise files of this chapter, open the 03_09 project by double-clicking on it.

  2. Press the Space bar to play back the project. It's a simple text object with a lightly-animated gradient background from the Library. Let's animate this layer in and out using some blur behaviors.

  3. Go to the gear icon under the Canvas and navigate to Text Basic | Blur In.

    Selecting a text behavior from the behavior icon underneath the Canvas

  4. Play back the animation. The text blurs in...