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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

Applying a blend mode to a gradient


In this recipe, we're going to use a gradient generator and apply a blend mode to it so that we can enhance the sky in the image below it. While a still image is used in this recipe, this technique can be applied with moving footage as well.

How to do it...

We'll begin by navigating to this chapter's exercise folder on your drive.

  1. Open the 02_08 project, which consists of a still image of a sky. Select the still in the Layers tab.

  2. Click on the Library tab. Go to the Generators category. There are several generators for you to choose from. Choose Gradient and click Apply. Go to the Window menu and choose Show HUD, if it's not already showing.

  3. Make sure the gradient is selected in the Layers tab. In the HUD, next to the word Gradient is an icon. Click it to reveal the gradient presets and select Desert Sun, as shown in the following screenshot:

  4. With the gradient still selected in the Layers tab, Ctrl + click directly in the Canvas window. Choose Edit Position...