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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 reflections


In the last few recipes, you may have recognized that some of the objects had reflections turned on. Let's see how we can turn reflections on manually.

Getting ready

From this chapter's exercise files, double-click the 10_08 project. Press the Space bar to play back the project. You may notice the project does not play in real time. You can try to adjust the quality and resolution temporarily to allow the project to play back faster. The project consists of a camera and a few lights interacting with a floor, background, and a text layer. One of the lights has been animated using a Parameter behavior to wriggle the Intensity value of the light. The text has been animated using a Sequence Text behavior that has been set to rotate each character along the y axis. We want to reflect our text on the floor. Before we enable text on the Floor layer, select the Reflection text and under the Properties tab of the Inspector make sure Casts Reflection is set to Yes. Also, check the...

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