Creating a News Bumper with Filters


The last exercise in this lesson is a news bumper for Hurricane Frances. It incorporates many of the skills that you've learned so far. When breaking news occurs, such as elections, wars, scandals, riots, wildfires, or hurricanes, the television stations create motion graphics bumpers to attract attention to the story.

I live in Orlando, Florida, so I recently had the unique experience of three hurricanes and hundreds of news bumpers about the hurricanes in a very brief span of time. While I was trapped inside a boarded-up house watching countless hours of hurricane updates, I got the inspiration to re-create a hurricane bumper for this book as a real-world example of filters in Motion.

This project includes actual Hurricane Frances footage that I shot with a digital camera and mini-DV camcorder. It's not the most exciting footage, but with filters you can make almost anything look more ominous and news bumperworthy.

Your goal in this exercise is to use filters to colorize and add a border to some of the images. Then you'll apply an image mask to the center video image.

Opening and Saving the Project

Let's open the Frances start project in the Finder and view the finished movie. The Frances start project is located in the Frances subfolder of the Lesson_05 folder.

1.

In the File Browser, click the Frances subfolder's disclosure triangle to show the contents.

2.

Open the Frances start project in the Finder.

3.

Choose File > Save As and save the Frances start project in the My Motion Projects folder on the Desktop.

4.

In the File Browser, double-click the Frances final.mov file to open it in the Viewer.

5.

Play the finished movie in the Viewer.

This example is actually tame compared with some of the hurricane bumpers that aired in the Southeast during the hurricanes.

6.

Close the Viewer.

7.

Press the spacebar to play the Frances Start project.

This is the entire project without any filters.



    Apple Pro Training Series Getting Started with Motion
    Apple Pro Training Series: Getting Started With Motion
    ISBN: 0321305337
    EAN: 2147483647
    Year: 2005
    Pages: 283
    Authors: Mary Plummer

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