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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 a replicator and changing parameters in the HUD


Let's take a look at how we can create a replicator using a shape from Motion's Library and tweak a few of its parameters using the HUD!

Getting ready

Under the exercise files of this chapter, double-click on the 08_01 project. There is a Shape layer in the Layers tab whose rotation has been animated to repeat for the duration of the project. Our goal is to place the star in a replicator so that we can have a pattern in our Canvas.

How to do it...

  1. Make sure your playhead is at the beginning of your project. Select the Star layer and press L; alternatively, from the toolbar choose Create a replicator (the icon with a grid of squares, as shown in the following screenshot).

  2. Play back the project. Several things just happened after you pressed that button. In the Layers tab, notice the Star layer has been turned off. A cell and replicator have been created just above it. The cell holds information about the star while the emitter is creating...

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