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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

Tweaking replicator parameters in the Inspector


In the last recipe, we switched a few parameters in the HUD for our replicator of stars; however, if we're looking to fine-tune the replicator, we need to go to the Inspector. Let's take a look at the additional parameters available.

Getting ready

In the exercise folder of this chapter, double-click on the 08_02 project. Play back the project. If you've worked on the previous exercise, you'll see it's where we finished tweaking our replicator in the HUD.

How to do it...

  1. Select Replicator in the Layers tab. Press the F4 key to open the Emitter tab of the Inspector. In the Cell Controls add an Angle Randomness value of 90. Each star now starts from a different angle position.

  2. Change the value of Color Mode to Over Pattern.

  3. Under the Gradient Presets menu to the right-hand side of Color Gradient, change it to Rainbow as indicated in the following screenshot:

  4. Change the value of Color Repetitions to 20 and the Scale End to 20. Notice how the gradient...