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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
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Index

Using the Link behavior


The Link behavior allows you to link the parameter values of one object to another. Let's take a look at two examples for how the link behavior can be used to aid us in our workflow.

How to do it...

  1. Under the exercise files of this chapter, open the 03_08 project by double-clicking on it.

  2. This project consists of three layers. The background map that is scaling up uses a Grow/Shrink behavior. The two compasses remain static in the foreground.

  3. We want both compasses to rotate by the same values as the project plays. Select Compass 02 in the Layers tab and press the F1 key to go to the Properties tab.

    Ctrl + click the word Rotation and navigate to Add Parameter Behavior | Link as shown in the following screenshot. Press the F7 key to show the HUD.

  4. The Link behavior in the Layers tab is turned off. This is because it needs a source to link to. Click-and-drag Compass 01 and drop it into the Source Object well in the HUD. Once it's added, you will see a picture of the compass...

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