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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

Changing your background, color, and safe zones


Motion allows you to customize your project and interface through options available in the Preferences menu. Some of those options allow you to make sure your text will be seen on a television correctly while others allow you to change the background. Let's explore by heading to the Project Properties and Preferences menu.

Getting ready

Launch Motion. From the welcome screen, select a Motion project. From the Presets, choose a Broadcast HD 1080 project with a Frame Rate of 29.97, and a Duration of 10 seconds. Click on Open. Motion's interface launches. Make sure you are at the beginning of your project. Select the Text tool by pressing the T key. Type in any word of your choice close to the center of the screen and press the Esc key to exit the text entry mode. Press the F7 key to reveal the HUD and make the text black, as shown in the following screenshot. You can't see it any more. This is one occasion where we want to be able to see our text...