Motion Introduction


Course Facts

  • 3 day course
  • Live Online or Classroom-based
  • Certificate of completion
  • Maximum class size of 6 for scheduled courses
  • Unlimited support after your course
  • Courses at all levels: Introduction, Intermediate, Advanced and Masterclasses

Course Outline

  • Getting Around in Motion
  • Building a Composite
  • Creating Animation with Behaviors
  • Animating with Keyframes
  • Creating Content with Generators, Shapes and Paint Strokes
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Overview

This three-day, hands-on course starts with motion graphics fundamentals and moves into compositing, animation, and the world of 3D. On the course, we explore intelligent templates to quickly and flexibly create high-quality effects, titles, transitions, and generators, as well as create rigs to adjust related parameters with a single control. Topics covered include Getting around in Motion, Building a composite, Creating animation with behaviors, Animating with keyframes, Creating content with generators, Shapes and paint strokes, Creating text effects, Working with particle emitters and replicators, Using audio, Speed changes and optical flow, Stabilising, Tracking and keying, Publishing smart templates for Final Cut Pro X, Rigging and publishing widgets, Building a 3D scene, Animating cameras and Using advanced 3D features.
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Course Outline

Getting Around in Motion

  • Following a New Paradigm
  • Opening Motion
  • Importing Video
  • Setting a Play Range,
  • Transforming and Duplicating a Clip
  • Adding Effects
  • Hiding and Showing the Project Pane
  • Stylizing with Filters
  • Framing with a Mask
  • Compositing with a Blend Mode
  • Adding Text
  • Animating with Text
  • Using Library Content
  • Arranging Layers
  • Using Function Keys and Outputting Projects

Building a Composite

  • Setting Up a Project
  • Creating a Background Using the Inspector
  • Using Photoshop Files
  • Compositing with Blend Modes and Filters
  • Editing in Motion
  • Making Overwrite Edits
  • Managing Timeline Tracks
  • Applying Masks and Using Clones and Importing Motion Projects

Creating Animation with Behaviors

  • Adding Basic Motion Behaviors
  • Stacking Behaviors
  • Using Basic Motion Behaviors in 3D
  • Using Simulation Behaviors
  • Applying Parameter Behaviors
  • Cloning a Group and Combining Behaviors and Adding a Light

Animating with Keyframes

  • Recording Keyframes
  • Changing Keyframes Interpolation
  • Setting Keyframes Manually
  • Using Keyframes on Multiple Parameters
  • Working with Multiple Keyframe Curves and Animating Crop with Keyframes

Creating Content with Generators, Shapes and Paint Strokes

  • Drawing Shapes
  • Creating a Background with a Generator
  • Searching for Content
  • Modifying Animated Content
  • Masking with Images
  • Importing Vector Graphics
  • Working with Paint Strokes
  • Using Shape Behaviors and Using the Bezier Tool

Creating Text Effects

  • Creating, Formatting and Styling Text Layers
  • Saving and Applying Text Style Presets
  • Duplicating, editing and Aligning Text Layers
  • Applying Text Behaviors
  • Using the Glyph Tool
  • Saving a Text Animation Favorite and Adding Motion Blur

Working with Particle Emitters and Replicators

  • Using Emitters to Make Particle Systems
  • Adjusting Emitter and Cell Controls in the Inspector
  • Adding Cells
  • Using Emitters from the Library
  • Replicating Elements and Modifying Replicator Presets

Using Audio

  • Importing Audio
  • Setting Markers and Keyframes in the Audio Editor
  • Working with Audio and Video
  • Editing to the Beat and Animating with Audio

Speed Changes and Optical Flow

  • Creating Constant Speed Changes
  • Using Frame Blending and Optical Flow
  • Creating Speed Ramps with Keyframes
  • Creating Speed Effects with Retiming Behaviors and Using Time Filters

Stabilising, Tracking and Keying

  • Tracking and Stabilizing a Shot
  • Keying Greenscreen Footage
  • Creating Garbage Masks and Correcting Color for Seamless Compositing

Publishing Smart Templates for Final Cut Pro X

  • Setting up the Final Cut Pro Project
  • Working with Effects Presets
  • Modifying Effects Presets,
  • Creating Smart Motion Templates
  • Completing the Animation
  • Using Build In and Build Out Markers and Publishing Parameters

Rigging and Publishing Widgets

  • Rigging a Checkbox Widget
  • Modifying, Testing and Publishing a Widget
  • Deconstructing a Transition Project
  • Rigging a Pop-up Widget
  • Using the Link Parameter Behavior
  • Creating a Final Cut Effect
  • Rigging the Slider Widget and Publishing Widgets and Parameters

Building a 3D Scene

  • Making 3D Transformations in the Canvas
  • Converting 2D Groups to 3D
  • Adding and Working with Cameras
  • Arranging and Modifying Groups and Layers in 3D Space and Mixing 2D and 3D Groups

Animating Cameras and Using Advanced 3D Features

  • Animating a Camera with Behaviors
  • Using Advanced 3D Features
  • Working with Depth of Field
  • Turning on Reflections
  • Using Lights and Shadows and Exporting Advanced 3D Features

Certification Exam (optional)

  • Students take an end user exam to earn Apple Certified Pro, Motion 5 Level One status

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Useful Links

  • Apple product page – Understand Motion as the powerful motion graphics tool that makes it easy to create cinematic 2D, 3D and 360° titles, fluid transitions and realistic effects in real time
  • What is Motion? – How to use Apple Motion to create stunning imaging effects in real time for a wide variety of broadcast, video, and film projects
  • Motion User Guide – Explore the Apple Motion User Guide
  • Wikipedia page for Motion – History and capabilities of Motion

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