Apple Pro Training Series Motion
by Allen, DamianEdition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-10-29
Publisher(s): Peachpit Press
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Summary
This Apple-authorized guide to Motion lifts the curtain on Apple's revolutionary new software for motion graphics design. A comprehensive book-DVD combo, it starts with motion graphics fundamentals and takes you step by step all the way through Motion's powerful advanced features, delivering comprehensive training-the equivalent of a three-day course-in one project-based book. Professional, hands-on projects help you learn as you go. All the files you need are on the DVD. Readers will harness the magic of Motion's Real-Time Design engine, behavior-based animation, and remarkable gesture-driven workflow using a graphics tablet. Topics covered include particle dynamics and behaviors, multi-layer composites using transfer modes, keying and compositing bluescreen elements, stylized title animation, and DVD motion menus, plus dozens of visual effects techniques using filters and transformations, and much more. Whether you're just entering the motion graphics field or are already an accomplished designer, this book will have you working in Motion in record time.
Author Biography
Damian Allen is a commercial artist and creative director living in Los Angeles
Table of Contents
| Getting Started | p. 1 |
| A Tour of Motion | p. 11 |
| A Revolution in Motion: The Backstory | p. 12 |
| Adding Motion to Your Dock | p. 13 |
| Launching Motion | p. 15 |
| Getting to Know the Interface | p. 17 |
| Some Windowing Hot Keys | p. 18 |
| Bring On the Talent | p. 20 |
| Setting the Play Range | p. 23 |
| Zooming the Canvas | p. 27 |
| Adding Objects | p. 30 |
| Applying Behaviors | p. 38 |
| Applying Filters | p. 44 |
| Soloing Objects and RAM Previews | p. 47 |
| Deactivating Behaviors and Filters | p. 50 |
| Using Particle Simulations | p. 52 |
| What You've Learned | p. 59 |
| Using Generators | p. 63 |
| Applying Generators from the Library | p. 64 |
| Exploring Abstract Particles | p. 71 |
| Using the Cellular Generator | p. 78 |
| Working in the Inspector | p. 81 |
| Working with Gradients | p. 83 |
| Using Hot Boxes and Sliders | p. 88 |
| Adding a Slit Scan | p. 89 |
| Rendering a Generated Object | p. 94 |
| What You've Learned | p. 99 |
| Working with Layers and Objects | p. 101 |
| Creating a TV Station ID | p. 102 |
| Building a Multi-layered Composite | p. 104 |
| Navigating the Layers Tab | p. 117 |
| Working with Filters and Behaviors in the Layers Tab | p. 127 |
| What You've Learned | p. 133 |
| Using Templates | p. 135 |
| Using Motion's Templates | p. 136 |
| Accessing Template Elements | p. 146 |
| Creating Your Own Templates | p. 149 |
| What You've Learned | p. 153 |
| Particles and Parameter Behaviors | p. 155 |
| Building Particles from a Movie Clip | p. 156 |
| Refining the Particle System | p. 162 |
| Adding a Splash of Color | p. 163 |
| Putting English on the Ball | p. 166 |
| Changing Scale | p. 168 |
| Birth, Death, and the Transitory In-Between Called Life | p. 170 |
| Using the Still-Proxy Method | p. 172 |
| Using Parameter Behaviors | p. 174 |
| Modifying the Butterflies' Movements | p. 180 |
| Creating an Implosion | p. 185 |
| What You've Learned | p. 193 |
| Advanced Particle Design | p. 195 |
| Working with Sprites | p. 196 |
| Adding a Second Particle Cell | p. 205 |
| Modifying Particle Behavior | p. 213 |
| Using Particle Proxies and RAM Preview | p. 216 |
| Blending Dust | p. 220 |
| What You've Learned | p. 223 |
| Using Blend Modes | p. 225 |
| Blending Objects | p. 229 |
| Creating a Title | p. 234 |
| Adding a Logo | p. 239 |
| Changing Media Properties | p. 241 |
| Adding the Explosion and Sound | p. 243 |
| What You've Learned | p. 245 |
| Drawing Gestures | p. 247 |
| Activating Gestures | p. 248 |
| Working with Gestures | p. 253 |
| Exploring the Gestures Dictionary | p. 256 |
| What You've Learned | p. 261 |
| Keying | p. 263 |
| Pulling a Key | p. 265 |
| Treating the Edges | p. 274 |
| Creating a Garbage Matte | p. 277 |
| Keyframing the Garbage Matte | p. 286 |
| Fixing the Choke Problem | p. 290 |
| Adding a Zoom Blur | p. 293 |
| What You've Learned | p. 297 |
| Nonlinear Editing | p. 299 |
| Assembling the Video | p. 300 |
| Bringing On the Butterflies | p. 308 |
| Adding a Lens-Flare Filter | p. 311 |
| Adding the Cinemative Graphics | p. 314 |
| Adding the Explutterfly | p. 317 |
| Adding the Hero | p. 320 |
| Fading Out | p. 323 |
| What You've Learned | p. 325 |
| Audio and Markers | p. 327 |
| Heist Squad-the Backstory | p. 328 |
| Mixing the Soundtrack | p. 329 |
| Adding Markers | p. 335 |
| What You've Learned | p. 339 |
| Keyframing | p. 341 |
| Animating the Blueprint | p. 342 |
| Setting the Keys Manually | p. 349 |
| Working in the Keyframe Editor | p. 351 |
| Stylizing the FloorPlan Object | p. 357 |
| Masking Off the Canvas | p. 360 |
| Adding Circle Strings | p. 366 |
| Adding the Rising Gun | p. 367 |
| Blurring the GunRaise Object | p. 376 |
| Adding Crazy Squares | p. 377 |
| Adding the Final Scene Transition | p. 379 |
| Going Further | p. 383 |
| What You've Learned | p. 383 |
| Creating Text Effects | p. 385 |
| Building a Frenetic Text Effect | p. 386 |
| Working with Text Parameters | p. 390 |
| Animating Text on a Path | p. 394 |
| Animating the Tracking and Slant | p. 399 |
| Animating the Position | p. 403 |
| Applying Motion Blur | p. 408 |
| Adding Personality to the Text | p. 412 |
| Creating a Preset | p. 418 |
| Applying Text Behaviors | p. 423 |
| Working with the Sequence Behaviors | p. 425 |
| Going Further with Text | p. 430 |
| What You've Learned | p. 431 |
| Integrating Apple Pro Applications | p. 433 |
| Creating a Lower Third for Final Cut Pro | p. 434 |
| Creating a DVD Motion Menu | p. 449 |
| What You've Learned | p. 466 |
| Motion for After Effects Users | p. 469 |
| This Book and the Seasoned Veteran | p. 470 |
| Real-Time Design | p. 471 |
| Behaviors Before Keyframing | p. 472 |
| Be a Stranger to the Timeline | p. 474 |
| Everything Has a Timing Bar | p. 477 |
| Motion Nomenclature | p. 477 |
| JavaScript vs. Parameter Behaviors | p. 480 |
| Particle Systems | p. 482 |
| Text in Motion | p. 483 |
| Motion Coordinate System and Dynamic Guides | p. 484 |
| The Dashboard | p. 485 |
| After Effects-Compatible Plug-ins | p. 485 |
| More Feature Crossover | p. 486 |
| Conclusion | p. 487 |
| Round-Trip Production | p. 489 |
| Content Creation Workflows with Apple's Professional Applications | p. 490 |
| Editing | p. 491 |
| Effects and Graphics | p. 492 |
| Music and Audio | p. 494 |
| Delivery | p. 498 |
| Workgroup Collaboration | p. 501 |
| Summary | p. 502 |
| Glossary | p. 505 |
| Index | p. 525 |
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