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Apple Motion 5 Cookbook

Apple Motion 5 Cookbook

By : Nicholas Harauz
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Apple Motion 5 Cookbook

Apple Motion 5 Cookbook

2.8 (11)
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)
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Apple Motion 5 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1
Index

Sequencing stills in the Timeline


Sometimes, it is beneficial to be able to grab a group of stills and have them sequentially laid out in the Timeline with the click of a button. This recipe explains how we can set up our preferences and select multiple photos and perform this recipe in a flash.

How to do it...

  1. Launch Motion. Select a Motion project, set Preset to Broadcast HD 720p, Frame Rate to 59.94, and Duration to 20 seconds. Choose Open.

  2. Go to the Motion menu and choose Preferences. Click on the Project tab.

  3. Under the Still Images & Layers settings, notice that Default layer Duration is set to Use project duration. Change Default Layer Duration to Use custom duration and set the length to one second. Close Preferences.

  4. Press Command + 1 to navigate to the File Browser and locate the Chapter 1 exercise folder.

  5. Turn off the Collapse Image Sequences icon on the lower-right corner of the File Browser so you can see all the photos. You should see 20 photos displayed; change from icon view to list view, as shown in the following screenshot:

  6. Make sure your playhead is on the first frame of the project. Click the first photo and Shift + click the last one.

  7. Drag the photos into the Timeline and try to align it with your playhead while holding down the Shift key. Wait for the pop-up window, and choose Sequential, as shown here:

  8. Press Command + 1 to close the File Browser and F5 to close the Layers tab. Drag upward between the Timeline and the Canvas to get a better view of the Timeline:

  9. Change the Layer view in the Timeline from Small to Mini to fit more layers on screen, as shown here. Scroll down on the right-hand side to see more of them.

  10. Press Shift + Z to fit the Canvas to the window and the Space bar to play it back. Notice how every second a photo appears until the project ends.

  11. Go back to Motion | Preferences and change back the preferences to their defaults.

There's more...

At the start of this recipe, we chose to turn off Collapse Image Sequences when bringing in our photos. What happened is because some photos were named sequentially, Motion flagged this and thought we wanted to treat it as an image sequence. In the later chapters, we'll see how image sequences can be extremely useful in Particles and Replicator cells.

See also

  • Using an image sequence in a particle emitter, Chapter 7, Let's Make Particles.

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