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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

Analyze and Match Move


In the last recipe, Motion analyzed the clip for us and decided on the best method to stabilize a clip based on the properties we wanted to adjust. With the Analyze behavior, we choose our own point or points to track and Motion attempts to follow them through the duration of the project. We'll then take the information from our tracking points and apply the data to a match move behavior that's attached to a text element, so that it mimics the movement of the point we tracked.

Getting ready

Under the Chapter 9 exercise files double-click the 09_02 project. Playback the project. It's a series of balls that fall from the sky and bounce on the table in slow motion. We're going to analyze a few of the balls' movement as they fall and bounce on the ground.

How to do it...

Let's add a behavior to our clip to analyze the movement.

  1. Select the video clip. Press Command + 2 to go to the Library. Go to Behaviors | Motion Tracking | Analyze Motion. Click on Apply at the top of the...