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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

Writing on your shape's outline


Motion gives you the ability to draw and erase shape outlines easily. Maybe you want to draw on an animated line over a map to animate the path of travel. Let's see how we can use this.

How to do it...

  1. From the exercise files of this chapter, open the 03_10 project by double-clicking on it.

  2. The project consists of a simple circle and square. Let's apply a Shape behavior to draw these objects on the screen. Select the Rectangle layer and click on the gear icon under the Canvas. Navigate to Shape | Write On as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. Nothing happens. That's because the Write On behavior will only work on the outline, not the fill of a shape. Press the F4 key to go to the Shape tab of the Inspector. Under the Style pane, turn off Fill and turn on Outline as shown in the following screenshot. Play back the animation.

  4. The Rectangle layer is drawn onscreen over the length of the project. Stop the playback. Select the Write On behavior in the Layers tab and...