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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

Exporting a still image and image sequence


Depending on your workflow, you may need to export your Motion project to another motion graphics, design, or VFX application. You could export an individual frame for your design team, to make sure your animations are on the right track, or export your project as a series of individual frames by creating an image sequence. Let's see both options in action.

Getting ready

Locate a Motion project you want to export as an image sequence and double-click on it to open it in Motion. Move your playhead to a frame you want to export prior to the image sequence.

How to do it...

  1. From the Share menu, choose Save Current Frame. Select PNG Image. Click on the Next button. Save the file to your desktop and click on OK.

  2. Navigate to the desktop and press the Space bar to preview it in the Finder.

  3. Go back into Motion and navigate to Share | Image Sequence. From Export choose DPX Image. This is a format used in a lot of VFX applications. Click on the Render and Summary...