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184 x 231 x 26mm
Best-selling, Apple-certified guide completely revised to cover the latest version of Apple's popular visual effects software: Motion 4.
- Focused, step-by-step lessons provide a strong foundation in all aspects of Apple's groundbreaking Motion 4 software.
- The only Apple-certified guide to Motion 4 and official curriculum of the Apple Pro training program.
- Author Mark Spencer is a best-selling author and Apple Certified master trainer.
- DVD-ROM is packed with lesson and media files.
Apple's Motion software changed the motion graphics landscape, bringing sophisticated visual effects capabilities within reach of more people than ever before. In this best-selling guide to Motion 4, readers will create eight sophisticated projects including a 3D show promo, a network-style title sequence, a DVD motion menu, and an actual temp effect used in Overture Film's Traitor. Each chapter represents a complete lesson, with a commercial quality project to work through as readers learn. Master trainer Mark Spencer starts with the fundamentals of motion graphics and quickly moves into compositing, animation, motion graphics design, visual effects design, and the world of 3D. The book is fully revised to take advantage of the software's new features: readers will explore 3D shadows, reflections, and depth of field; 'fly' a camera from one object to another; ripple text characters on and off the screen with ease; animate date and time sequences automatically; and master Motion's remarkable new linking behavior. Along the way, readers will work with particles, generators, filters, effects, templates, greenscreen mattes, keying, tracking, paint, and more. Whether they have just entered the field or are already an accomplished motion graphics pro, this book will have readers designing in Motion in record time. Motion 4 is part of Apple's Final Cut Studio suite which is now shipping and retails for $999 (US$). The user base for Final Cut Studio is 1.4 million and growing.
