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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

Apple Motion 5 Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgement

About the Reviewers

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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

The Motion Path behavior is very versatile. It creates a path for an object to travel along and is customizable.

Let's launch Motion and create a new Motion project with a Preset of Broadcast 1080p. Set Duration to 6 seconds.
Press the Command + 2 shortcut to go to the Library. Go to Particle Emitters and select the Pulsing Laser Star as shown in the following screenshot. Click on Apply.
Press the Space bar to play back your project. It's a simple star that twinkles in the middle of your Canvas. We're going to make it travel along a path. Click the gear icon on the bottom-right corner of the Canvas and choose Motion Path under Basic Motion as shown in the following screenshot. Press the F7 key to show the HUD if it's not already displayed.
Zoom out on your Canvas by pressing the Command + - shortcut. Notice that with the Motion Path behavior selected, you can see a line in the Canvas that has two points; one point is in the center and the other is off...