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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

Making it 3D! Looking at 3D options for replicators


Replicators are already powerful on their own but turn them into 3D and you'll find options for a few new shapes as well as parameters. Let's take a look!

Getting ready

Under the exercise files of this chapter, double-click on the 08_06 project. Play back the project. Inside the project, there is a Replicator of leaves being animated onscreen in the shape of a rectangle. Go to the Replicator tab in the Inspector to see that the value Origin is set to Lower Left and of the Build Style is set to By Column. These two parameters control the way the sequence replicator animates onscreen. Click on the Behaviors tab and then click on the disclosure triangle next to Position. Notice that the Z value is set to -4000. In previous recipes, it was mentioned that Z refers to depth in a project. Let's see how this is affected the instant we make our replicator 3D.

How to do it...

  1. Select the Replicator in the Layers tab and press the F4 key to go to the...