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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

Using videos and textures to fill text


We're going to take a quick look at how we can fill our text with something other than a solid or gradient color by using video. In this exercise, we're going to apply a blend mode on our text to achieve the desired result.

Getting ready

Find a piece of video and create a project based on its dimensions, frame rate, and duration. Go to File Browser and navigate to the location where the file is. Make sure you're on the first frame of your project and select Import to bring it in.

How to do it...

Let's begin by creating some text.

  1. Select the text icon in the toolbar underneath the Canvas and type out MOVING FORWARD. Press Esc and F7. Select a nice, thick font such as Aerial Black as shown in the following screenshot:

  2. Select the text and press F1 to go to the Properties tab. From the pop-up list under Blending Mode, select Stencil Luma. Your image is now contained in the text. If it seems to have got lost on the screen, try duplicating the text by pressing...