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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 video to a television screen


If you ever go to work in a visual-effects house, one of the first things they'll want you to do is screen replacement. This usually involves motion tracking. Let's see it in action.

Getting ready

From the exercise files for this chapter, double-click on the 06_07 project. There are two layers in the project; a still of the TV screen and a movie file. You can temporarily disable the visibility of the still by clicking on the check mark next to it in the Layers tab. Our goal here is to mask out the center of the TV screen and replace it with the video clip that we will scale down and rotate so that it fits. As a bonus step, we'll bring back in some of the black color from the screen to make the shot more realistic.

How to do it...

Let's find the Bezier Mask tool to choose the selection we need to remove.

  1. Select the Bezier Mask tool from the toolbar as shown in the following screenshot. Press Command + = to zoom in on your Canvas so that we can add precise...