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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.

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2013

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781849693806

Length 416 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Motion

Concepts

Motion Graphics

Author (1):

Nicholas Harauz

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

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 an advanced logo effect with shapes and masks

When you duplicate layers and combine masks, you can create some pretty cool animations and effects. Let's take a look at how we can animate a glow across a logo while it scales up over time.

Getting ready

Under the exercise folder of this chapter, double-click on the 06_10 project file. The project consists of two logo groups; Logo glow and Logo. The image used was an Illustrator file. In order, to scale it up without distortion, we went to the Media tab of the Inspector and turned off Fixed Resolution. If you look inside the Logo Glow group, you should see several copies of the logo each containing a glow filter. To create this dynamic glow, duplicating the logo, as well as changing the blend mode between the layers, was needed. The Logo group only contains the Illustrator layer and no glow. Our goal is to create a mask around the Logo Glow group and animate it so that it's only seen for a few seconds.