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    Apple Motion 5 Cookbook
    Apple Motion 5 Cookbook
    Apple Motion 5 Cookbook
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    Apple Motion 5 Cookbook

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    Step-by-step, practical recipes to build simple and complex Motion Graphics with Motion 5"Apple Motion 5 Cookbook" is designed for Final Cut Pro X video editors and Motion 5 users looking to gain more knowledge of how Motion works, and to get more of a ‘WOW’ factor in projects. It’s also aimed at designers and motion designers alike, who are looking to build on their skillsets.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPackt Publishing
    Release dateMay 24, 2013
    ISBN9781849693813
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      Apple Motion 5 Cookbook - Nick Harauz

      Table of Contents

      Apple Motion 5 Cookbook

      Credits

      About the Author

      Acknowledgement

      About the Reviewers

      www.PacktPub.com

      Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more

      Why Subscribe?

      Free Access for Packt account holders

      Preface

      What this book covers

      What you need for this book

      Who this book is for

      Conventions

      Reader feedback

      Customer support

      Downloading the example code

      Errata

      Piracy

      Questions

      1. Getting Around the Interface

      Introduction

      Choosing a Motion project

      How to do it...

      There's more…

      Motion templates

      Turning Motion Projects to Final Cut Generators

      Rigging and publishing

      Project Properties

      See also

      Importing files to the Canvas, Layers tab, and Timeline

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      There's more...

      Know where your playhead is

      Viewing and previewing files in the File Browser

      See also

      Importing Photoshop and Illustrator files

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      See also

      Making selections with Expose

      How to do it...

      Changing the layer order

      How to do it...

      There's more...

      Moving layers with shortcuts

      See also

      Groups versus layers

      How to do it...

      How it works

      There's more...

      Making changes in the Properties tab, HUD, and Canvas

      How to do it...

      There's more...

      Moving and trimming layers in the Timeline and the mini-Timeline

      How to do it...

      There's more...

      Launching and customizing a template

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Let solo be your friend

      Don't be intimidated

      See also

      Keyboard customization

      How to do it...

      There's more…

      See also

      Looking under the hood – key preferences for your workflows

      How to do it...

      There's more...

      See also

      Sequencing stills in the Timeline

      How to do it...

      There's more...

      See also

      Managing the Layers tab

      How to do it...

      See also

      2. Looking at Motion's Library

      Introduction

      A brief tour of the Library tab

      How to do it...

      See also

      Importing files from the Content library

      How to do it...

      See also

      Applying a Glow filter to a layer

      How to do it...

      There's more…

      Keyframing filters

      Don't sweat the filters

      See also

      Copying filters and applying filters to a group

      How to do it...

      There's more...

      Using Command + Command + C and Command + V when copying multiple filters

      See also

      Controlling the filter order

      How to do it...

      See also

      The power of cloning

      How to do it...

      There's more...

      Grid 101

      Clones and switching sources

      See also

      The power of blend modes

      How to do it...

      See also

      Customizing a gradient generator

      How to do it...

      There's more...

      Adding color and opacity stops

      Reversing gradient colors

      See also

      Applying a blend mode to a gradient

      How to do it...

      See also

      Adding a frame and changing a drop zone's content

      How to do it...

      There's more...

      Drop zones for FCP X

      Anchor points

      See also

      Adding a Flourish and applying filters

      How to do it...

      See also

      3. Making It Move with Behaviors

      Introduction

      Applying a Fade In/Fade Out and Grow/Shrink behavior to a still

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      There's more…

      The D key

      Real-time playback

      See also

      Customizing a Motion Path

      How to do it...

      There's more...

      Using Geometry under Path Shapes

      The Snap Alignment to Motion behavior

      See also

      Spinning and throwing a ball

      How to do it...

      There's more...

      Z space and 3D

      See also

      Adding an Attractor and Attracted To behavior

      How to do it...

      Stop the playback when tweaking Simulation behaviors

      See also

      Adding Edge Collision and Gravity behaviors to a ball

      How to do it...

      See also

      Creating Random Motion using the Randomize behavior

      How to do it...

      There's more...

      Parameter behaviors are best added in the Properties tab

      See also

      Stop, Wriggle, Rate, and Quantize

      How to do it...

      There's a lot to the Wriggle behavior

      See also

      Using the Link behavior

      How to do it...

      See also

      An intro to Text behaviors

      How to do it...

      There's more…

      It all began with Sequence Text

      Don't forget the Library to preview your animations

      See also

      Writing on your shape's outline

      How to do it...

      See also

      Creating constant and variable speed changes

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      See also

      Holding and looping your animations

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      See also

      4. Making It Move with Keyframes

      Introduction

      Moving a still's anchor point and keyframing its scale

      How to do it...

      There's more…

      See also

      Deleting and disabling keyframes

      How to do it...

      There's more...

      Selecting and deleting keyframes in the Timeline

      For more control, proceed to the Keyframe Editor

      Interpowhat?!?! ……Interpolation explained

      Keyframing a group

      How to do it...

      There's more...

      See also

      Autokeyframing multiple parameters on a shape

      How to do it...

      There's more...

      See also

      Working with multiple parameters in the Keyframe Editor

      How to do it...

      There's more...

      See also

      Moving keyframes in the Keyframe Editor

      How to do it...

      How it works

      There's more...

      See also

      Reversing keyframes

      How to do it...

      There's more...

      See also

      Understanding and changing the interpolation

      How to do it...

      See also

      Converting behaviors into keyframes

      How to do it...

      There's more...

      See also

      Combining keyframes and behaviors – animating a Photoshop file

      How to do it...

      There's more...

      See also

      Combining keyframes and behaviors – animating a clock

      How to do it...

      See also

      5. Let's Make Text

      Introduction

      Changing the text format

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      There's more…

      Text behaviors

      Saving text presets

      Safe zones

      See also

      Changing the text style

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      There's more...

      Adding textures

      Changing the render quality for better playback

      Changing the play range

      When you need to see it in real time, use your RAM

      See also

      Changing the layout and creating text on a path

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      See also

      Adding and trimming multiple text behaviors

      Getting Ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      See also

      Sequence Text

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      There's more...

      See also

      Using the Transform Glyph tool

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      Saving your favorite text animations and styles

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      Using vector images from the Special Characters library

      How to do it...

      There's more…

      Using videos and textures to fill text

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      There's more…

      See also

      Creating a lower third for FCP X

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      See also

      6. Paint and Masks

      Introduction

      Using the Paint Stroke tool

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      There's more…

      Changing Shape Style and Width Over Stroke

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      There's more...

      Saving paint strokes as presets

      Using a still image or MOV file as a stroke source

      Using Sequence Paint

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      The relationship between shapes and Paint

      How to do it...

      Using shape masks

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      There's more…

      Creating a garbage matte for a green screen

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      There's more...

      See also

      Adding a video to a television screen

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      See also

      Applying multiple masks to an image and changing mask modes

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      There's more...

      See also

      Using image masks

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      There's more...

      See also

      Creating an advanced logo effect with shapes and masks

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      See also

      7. Let's Make Particles

      Introduction

      Making particles and changing values in the HUD

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      There's more…

      Tweaking particle parameters in the Inspector

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      There's more...

      Adding randomness values

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      See also

      Working with particle behaviors

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      There's more...

      See also

      Working with particle presets

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      There's more...

      Particle presets are the best way to learn Motion!

      See also

      Working with particle presets in 3D

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      Using an image sequence in a particle emitter

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works

      See also

      Working with and manipulating multiple cells

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      See also

      Creating a tunnel through the frame effect

      Getting ready

      How to do it

      There's more...

      See also

      Creating your own Bokeh

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      See also

      8. Replicators – It's No Fun By Yourself

      Introduction

      Creating a replicator and changing parameters in the HUD

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      There's more…

      Finding the HUD limited?

      See also

      Tweaking replicator parameters in the Inspector

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      There's more...

      See also

      Working with the Sequence Replicator behavior

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      See also

      Keyframing the replicator's parameters

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      There's more...

      See also

      Working with replicator presets

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      There's more...

      See also

      Making it 3D! Looking at 3D options for replicators

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      See also

      Adding a camera to interact with your replicator

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      See also

      Creating your own video wall

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      There's more...

      See also

      Faking 3D extrusion with shapes

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      See also

      9. Motion Tracking and Keying

      Introduction

      Stabilizing a clip

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      There's more…

      See also

      Analyze and Match Move

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      There's more...

      See also

      Offset tracking

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      See also

      Match Move Four Corner

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      There's more...

      See also

      Luma-keying a logo

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      See also

      Keying a green screen

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      See also

      Advanced green screen techniques

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      There's more...

      See also

      The Pleasantville effect

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      See also

      10. Intro to 3D

      Introduction

      Making it 3D

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works

      X Rotation

      Y Rotation

      Z Rotation

      See also

      Moving a camera versus moving a layer

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      There's more...

      See also

      Where am I again? Controlling the view of your world using viewports

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works

      See also

      Adjust Around

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      There's more...

      See also

      Integrating 3D and 2D

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      There's more...

      See also

      Using the Framing camera behavior

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works

      See also

      Let's add some light

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      There's more...

      See also

      Creating reflections

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      See also

      Turning on Depth of Field

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      See also

      11. Publishing Your Work to FCP X

      Introduction

      Opening and changing text from FCP X in Motion

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more…

      See also

      Publishing a Motion 5 generator and its parameters to FCP X

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      There's more...

      Changing the order of published parameters

      Finding Titles, Effects, Transitions, and Generators at the system level

      See also

      Creating an effect for FCP X

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      There's more…

      See also

      Creating a transition for FCP X

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      See also

      Publishing parameters versus publishing rigs 101 – part 1

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      See also

      Publishing parameters versus publishing rigs 101 – part 2

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      There's more...

      See also

      Combining a slider, checkbox, and pop-up rig – part 1

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      There's more…

      See also

      Combining a slider, checkbox, and pop-up rig – part 2

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      There's more…

      Be careful of your project settings

      Project snapshots and DARS

      See also

      Combining a slider, checkbox, and pop-up rig – part 3

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      See also

      12. Customization and Exporting

      Introduction

      Changing your background, color, and safe zones

      Getting ready

      There's more…

      See also

      Creating your own project presets

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      Exporting a full-resolution copy of your project

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      Exporting to DVD

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      See also

      Exporting a still image and image sequence

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      See also

      Exporting an alpha channel and video separately

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      See also

      Exporting using Compressor

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works…

      See also

      Saving a template

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      See also

      Index

      Apple Motion 5 Cookbook

      Apple Motion 5 Cookbook

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      Credits

      Author

      Nick Harauz

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      About the Author

      Nick Haurauz has directed and filmed a host of celebrities such as Nelly Furtado, Lady Gaga, and Richard Branson. He was responsible for crafting video magic for clients such as Diageo, Virgin Mobile, United Way, and Procter and Gamble.

      He has an uncanny ability to engage his students and create a level of relatedness that keeps them coming back for more. As an FCP X, Motion 5, After Effects, Premiere Pro, and an Avid-certified trainer, he is able to put his BA in Film and Sociology from the University of Toronto to good use.

      In 2005, Nick founded Inconscience Productions and continues to work with domestic and international brands to shoot, produce, and cut masterpieces. In 2010, he was handed the opportunity of a lifetime to co-edit a feature documentary entitled My Father and the Man in Black; the untold story of a bad boy Johnny Cash, his talented but troubled manager, Saul Holiff, and a son searching for his father in the shadow of a legend.

      When he is not busy impressing his students at Witz Education and travelling to or from post-production conferences, this half Ukrainian, half Trinidadian can be found playing tennis.

      This is his first book!

      Acknowledgement

      Writing my first book has been an incredible journey and it couldn't be possible without all the love and support from those around me. First, I would like to thank my family and friends for their patience and help during this time.

      Thank you Digital Juice for allowing me to use some fabulous stock footage for the exercise files. They have an incredible collection of content for both Motion and Final Cut to enrich all types of projects. If you like the content used in the exercise files, please visit their website here at: http://www.digitaljuice.com.

      Thank you Edward Gajdel for your pictures, Paul Kelly for your graphic files, and Marisa Seguin for your illustrations. Without content creators and collaborators like you, these lesson files would have never been accessible.

      I would also like to thank Anne Renehan for giving me my first opportunity to learn Motion, Michael Cianflocca for your review, Jeff Greenberg from www.jgreenbergconsulting.com for your continued inspiration in the video community, feedback and advice, Greg Witz, Jared Kligerman, and Paul Macri at Witz Education who put up with me on a daily basis and who challenge me to produce rich educational content. The whole team at Witz Education truly rocks.

      About the Reviewers

      Carlos A. Cañizares is a Vancouver-based editor, digital compositor, and colorist.

      With a background in film and design, Carlos is fluent in Final Cut Studio 3, Final Cut Pro X, Motion 5, DaVinci Resolve, and Adobe Production Premium CS6. He is also proficient in Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign, with a working knowledge of frontend web development through HTML, CSS, and basic jQuery.

      His past collaborations include clients such as Elizabeth Carol Savenkoff of Vous Valet Vancouver, jazz singer Jaclyn Guillou, and Rugged Media Inc., to name a few. He has also taught Motion 4 and 5 as a substitute instructor for the Electronic Media Design program at Langara College, Continuing Studies.

      He is currently the Editor of Earth Orbit Productions, the Audio Visual Producer of PS98 Music Ministry, and the Principal of his own freelance persona - CARLOS CANIZARES: POST PRODUCTION DESIGNER.

      To the ones involved in getting me to where I am today, this book is a culmination of your unwavering love and support. You all know who you are. Thank you so much.

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      He has worked for many years with the programs in Final Cut Studio, Final Cut Pro X, Motion 3, 4, and 5, Color, Soundtrack-Pro, Aperture, and Photoshop.

      His clients are from all areas of the media industry as well as companies, individuals, and artists.

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      Preface

      Creating motion graphics and visual effects in the past used to be a daunting process. Performing tasks such as animating text, match moving, compositing, and connecting individual layers would involve extremely long workflows that would take days, even months to complete. That's where Motion comes in. It was designed to make these tasks simpler and easier so that the user can focus on the creation. The application works seamlessly with Final Cut and has the editor and motion graphics artist in mind every step of the way.

      So, welcome to Apple Motion 5 Cookbook. Throughout this book, you'll learn to create sophisticated motion graphics using the incredible tools and content inside the application. Through a series of recipes, we will cover tips and tricks for easy navigation of the interface, animating layers with behaviors and keyframes, applying filters, using Motion's vast content library, creating replicator and particle systems, and working in both 2D and 3D environments. With exercise files accompanying this book as an additional download, you will walk away with real-world projects to apply your new skills to. Let's get cooking!

      What this book covers

      Chapter 1, Getting Around the Interface, explores becoming more comfortable inside Motion and navigating ourselves through the various windows.

      Chapter 2, Looking at Motion's Library, explores working with and manipulating the vast content available to us right inside Motion.

      Chapter 3, Making It Move with Behaviors, explores instant animation techniques by dragging and dropping various behaviors onto elements into our project.

      Chapter 4, Making It Move with Keyframes, explores classic animation techniques in Motion and the options available to add, cut, copy, and manipulate keyframes on parameters.

      Chapter 5, Let's Make Text, explores working with text in Motion by changing text style, saving presets, and animating text with behaviors.

      Chapter 6, Paint and Masks, explores the Paint Stroke tool and the brush stroke presets available from the Library. We will also look at using masks to add effects to specific parts of our image, as a utility tool and to create animation.

      Chapter 7, Let's Make Particles, explores the basics of Motion's extremely powerful particle systems and how we can manipulate its parameters to create dynamic motion graphics.

      Chapter 8, Replicators – It's No Fun By Yourself, explores the basics of the replicator and how almost any element in Motion can be used to create seamless animation through patterns.

      Chapter 9, Motion Tracking and Keying, explores VFX techniques including match moves, offset tracking, and green screen removal.

      Chapter 10, Intro to 3D, explores adding cameras and lights to our projects to interact with our elements in 3D space.

      Chapter 11, Publishing Your Work to FCP X, focuses on integrating Motion into FCP X by creating titles, transitions, effects, and generators for the Media Browser.

      Chapter 12, Customization and Exporting, explores a few customization techniques for various workflows. We also look at exporting movies, stills, and image sequences from Motion and exporting through another application called Compressor.

      What you need for this book

      Users will need three applications to go through all the recipes in the book; Motion 5, Final Cut Pro X, and Compressor. These applications only run on Apple computers. All applications can be downloaded directly from the Mac App Store located on the dock of your computer. Please head to the Apple website in order to make sure you have the appropriate system requirements to run the applications. The Motion webpage can be found here: http://www.apple.com/finalcutpro/motion/. If you already have the application installed, make sure you are up to date with the latest software. All project files that you can download from the Packt Publishing website are compatible with Motion 5.0.7 and higher versions.

      Who this book is for

      This book is intended for Final Cut Pro users looking to incorporate more motion graphics in their workflows and Motion users who are looking to gain a comprehensive knowledge of the tools, tricks, methods, and options available in Motion to create great motion graphics and visual effects.

      Conventions

      In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

      Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: Navigate to the Photoshop .psd file on your system.

      New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: Navigate to the File Browser by clicking it on the left-hand side of the interface.

      Note

      Warnings or important notes appear in a box like this.

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