Acknowledgments

My deepest thanks to my husband and partner in business and life, Klark Perez, for your inexhaustible patience and support in carrying the weight for both us and our company, InVision Digital and Media Arts, while I was writing.

Thanks to Patty Montesion for your support, unwavering enthusiasm, this extraordinary opportunity, and my career as an Apple Certified Trainer. Thanks also to Kirk Paulsen for the invitation to write this book.

Huge thanks to Damian Allen for your exceptional Motion training; Dion Scoppettuolo for your guidance in planning this book; and Guido Hucking, Greg Niles, and the entire Motion team for creating this revolutionary motion graphics application.

Thanks to Serena Herr and the amazing Peachpit Press team for making this book a reality in record time: Kristin Mellone Kalning, Pat Christenson, David Van Ness, Tina O'Shea, Karen Arrigoni, Eric Geoffroy, Frances Baca, Alicia Buelow, and George Mattingly. Special thanks to Judy Ziajka for your leadership and keen eye for details and for making this writing marathon such an enjoyable experience; and to Hon Walker for your invaluable editorial touch. Thanks also to Tim Snell and Jeff Guenette for your notes and motion graphics expertise.

Thanks to Pamela Tuscany-Warren, Senior Director Marketing and Business Development, Universal Studios Florida Production Group/22A, and to everyone at Universal Studios Florida for the opportunity to have a production company and Apple Authorized Training Center on the lot. Thanks also to my talented friends Jeffrey A. Graves, Mark Magin, and Annie M. Zadie for providing such beautiful media, and to J. Issac Royffe for your help.

Extra special thanks to my family for their unconditional love throughout my freelance career. Thanks "Meem," Lee, Dad, Ginny, Chris, Sessely, Jorin, Landon, Kim, Guy, Emily, Chris, Jackson, Peg, Jim, Bill, Paula, Warren, Loretta, Chase, Sergio, Virginia, Kent, Klark, and my dog, Niki.