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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

Keyframing a group


We can keyframe groups the same way we keyframe layers. The advantage of keyframing groups is that if we have a bunch of layers or objects that are related, we can keyframe just the group the layers are in rather than keyframe each layer individually. Let's take a look!

How to do it...

  1. Open the 04_03 project in this chapter's exercises folder.

  2. Play back the project. This project consists of a radial gradient background, some smiley faces, text, and animated arrows. We want to animate all the elements in this project on and offscreen together. Select the group and press F1 to go to the Properties tab of the Inspector.

  3. Move to the one-second mark on your Timeline. Next to the word Scale, in Transform properties, click the diamond icon to add a keyframe, as shown in the following screenshot. Move to the end of the Timeline and change the Scale value to 120. A new keyframe is automatically added.

    In the following screenshot, we see a view of our window's display after the preceding...