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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

Luma-keying a logo

Sometimes you may receive a logo from a client that has a white or black background embedded in it. What you would like to do is remove the background so that the logo appears as a lower third bug on your footage without a rectangular white/black box around it. Rather than going back to your client for a new logo, you may be able to extract the background using the Luma Key filter in Motion.

Getting ready

Find a piece of footage you would like to place a logo over. Launch Motion and create a new project based on your clip settings. Make sure your playhead is at the beginning of the project. Go to the File Browser, locate your clip and import it into the project. Find the LIFT_EXERCISE9_5_LOGO in this chapter's exercise folder. Notice, from the info panel at the top of the File Browser, that the logo is a JPEG that does not contain an alpha channel. We'll need to key this out with the Luma Keyer.