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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

This recipe continues our exploration of Motion behaviors.

Double-click to open the 03_03 project. This project consists of an AquaBall still image. This is taken right from Motion's Library.
With the AquaBall selected, go to the gear icon and choose Throw from under Basic Motion as shown in the following screenshot. Press the F7 key to reveal the HUD.
Press the Space bar to play back the project. Nothing happens. In the HUD, we need to determine where we want the ball to go. Click and drag the center cross hair to the right-hand side until you see an arrow. Drag it till it touches the outermost edge of the circle. If the circle isn't moving fast enough to go offscreen, drag the zoom parameter to the right and than drag the arrow further to the right as shown in the following screenshot:
Stop the playback. Make sure you're on the first frame of your project. Decrease the Canvas size by pressing the Command + - shortcut. Select AquaBall in the Canvas...