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Apple Motion 5 Cookbook

You're reading from   Apple Motion 5 Cookbook With this book you'll be able to fully exploit the fantastic features of Apple Motion. There are over 110 recipes with downloadable content for each chapter and stacks of screenshots. A video editor's dream.

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849693806
Length 416 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Nicholas Harauz Nicholas Harauz
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Apple Motion 5 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Getting Around the Interface FREE CHAPTER 2. Looking at Motion's Library 3. Making It Move with Behaviors 4. Making It Move with Keyframes 5. Let's Make Text 6. Paint and Masks 7. Let's Make Particles 8. Replicators – It's No Fun By Yourself 9. Motion Tracking and Keying 10. Intro to 3D 11. Publishing Your Work to FCP X 12. Customization and Exporting Index

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


Replicators are already powerful on their own but turn them into 3D and you'll find options for a few new shapes as well as parameters. Let's take a look!

Getting ready

Under the exercise files of this chapter, double-click on the 08_06 project. Play back the project. Inside the project, there is a Replicator of leaves being animated onscreen in the shape of a rectangle. Go to the Replicator tab in the Inspector to see that the value Origin is set to Lower Left and of the Build Style is set to By Column. These two parameters control the way the sequence replicator animates onscreen. Click on the Behaviors tab and then click on the disclosure triangle next to Position. Notice that the Z value is set to -4000. In previous recipes, it was mentioned that Z refers to depth in a project. Let's see how this is affected the instant we make our replicator 3D.

How to do it...

  1. Select the Replicator in the Layers tab and press the F4 key to go to the...

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