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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

Adding a camera to interact with your replicator


Adding a camera to our project and having it interact with a replicator adds even more creative possibilities in Motion. Let's take a look at how we can make replicators and cameras play nicely with each other by adding our own camera to a project.

Getting ready

From the exercise files of this chapter, double-click on the 08_07 project. Play back the project. You should see a grid of animated rounded rectangles that changes size, color, and scale over time because of the sequence replicator. We're going to add a camera to the scene and a behavior to that camera to have it interact with our replicator.

How to do it...

Let's begin by adding a camera to the scene.

  1. Make sure you are on the first frame of your project. Go to the Object menu and choose New Camera. A dialogue box will appear asking if you want to keep the groups as 2D or switch them to 3D. Choose Switch to 3D as shown in the following screenshot:

  2. We're going to add a behavior to the camera...

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