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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

Combining keyframes and behaviors – animating a clock


Let's take a look at another example of combining keyframes and behaviors by animating a clock's minute and hour hand while linking some text to rotate along with the clock.

How to do it...

  1. From this chapter's exercises folder, open the 04_11 project. This project consists of a clock from Motion's library that contains separate layers for the hour and minute hand. There are also two text layers, as shown in the following image. We want the text to rotate along with the clock's hand. In order to achieve this, we're going to move both of the texts' anchor points to the center of the clock.

  2. On the toolbar, click and select the Anchor Point tool located underneath the selection tool, as shown in the following screenshot. Select the Hour Text layer and use the green and red arrows to move the anchor point to the center of the clock. Repeat this step for the other text layer.

  3. Press Shift + S to go back to the selection tool. Let's keyframe the...