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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

Creating Random Motion using the Randomize behavior


Random Motion allows us to add a little variation to our projects. In fact, using Randomize under Parameter behaviors allows us to target a specific value. Let's see how this differs with a Random Motion behavior.

How to do it...

  1. Double-click to open 03_06 from the exercise folder for this chapter.

  2. Press the Space bar to play back the animation. It's three circular shapes being thrown across the screen. We're going to add a random simulation behavior to them. Stop the playback. In the Layers tab, select the Purple, Blue, and Yellow circles as shown in the following screenshot. Go to the gear icon just under the Canvas and choose Random Motion under Simulations.

  3. Play back the animation. You may notice that each of your circles has a subtle bit of randomization to it. To make the circles appear as if they are growing and shrinking, we're going to have the Random Motion behavior affect the z position. Select all three of the Random Motion behaviors...

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