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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

Adding a frame and changing a drop zone's content


Drop zones give us the ability to swap either video or a still in replace of a placeholder graphic. Drop zones are great in helping motion graphic designers automate their workflow. Let's say you have a news program that uses the same "Coming Next" animation every week, but the videos and still content in that animation constantly change. You can easily set up a drop zone, so that you can use that same graphic over and over again while literally dropping in video and stills to their respective places.

How to do it...

  1. Launch Motion. Set the Preset to Broadcast 720p, Frame Rate to 29.97, and Duration to 10 seconds.

  2. Click on the Library tab to open it. Go to Content. There are 1349 items to choose from. Click the magnifying glass at the bottom-left of the window. Type in Vertical.

  3. Select any frame with an arrow in the middle of it and choose Import. Select the Vertical group and press F1 to go to the Properties tab of the Inspector.

  4. Decrease the...