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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

Adding and trimming multiple text behaviors


Let's explore some of the behaviors Motion has to offer us for the text.

Getting Ready

Open the 5_05 project from the exercise folder for this chapter. Play back the project. It consists of a background and three pieces of text that come on screen one second after each other.

How to do it...

We're going to start by having our text come from different directions offscreen to onscreen.

  1. Click on the disclosure triangle to open the Text group in the Layers tab. Select the Ready text and press Command + 2 to go to the Library. Navigate to Behaviors | Text Sequence | Text Basic. Select the Slide In behavior and click on Apply.

  2. Move to 1 second on the mini-Timeline. Press Command + Option + O to trim the out-point of the play range. Play back the animation. Press Command + - twice to zoom out on the Canvas. Click and drag the red arrow until it's offscreen left as shown in the following screenshot. Press F2 to go to the Behaviors tab of the Inspector.

  3. Click...