Introduction: Getting Started

Welcome to the official introductory training course for Motion, Apple's dynamic and powerful motion graphics compositing software. This book is a detailed guide to creating motion graphics projects using Motion and the library of more than 4 GB of royalty-free content that is included with the software. It is based on the premise that a training book should go beyond a basic tour of the application, providing you with practical, professional techniques that you will use on a daily basis to add professional-quality motion graphics to your projects.

Whether you are a seasoned graphic designer or have never tried compositing images before, you will learn how to use Motion for a variety of real-world scenarios, creating multi-layered composites from scratch, animating objects and text with behaviors for a point-of-purchase advertisement, enhancing a dramatic news bumper with filters and generators, creating particle systems and visual effects, and more.