Digital Video - September 2007 - (Page 58) MOTION GRAPHICS BY TRISH AND CHRIS MEYER NEW DIMENSIONS THE LATEST UPDATE TO APPLE MOTION INCLUDES A SLICK 3D IMPLEMENTATION. right: When the Adjust 3D Transform tool is selected, you can drag on various icons in Motion’s HUD (Heads-Up Display) to move selected layers, cameras and lights in specific constrained ways. M otion 3—part of Apple’s Final Cut Studio 2 suite—has experienced a major update, including the addition of motion tracking and stabilization, optical flow (smooth slow motion) technology, a gorgeous particle-based paint system, enhancements to the software’s Keyframe Editor, and interesting new Audio Parameter and Retiming behaviors. But the big headliner is the addition of 3D space— including 3D animation for 2D layers, 3D cameras and lights, and 3D enhancements for Motion’s particle and text animation systems. Object lesson You can combine 2D and 3D layers (“objects” in Motion-speak) in the same project. To place a layer in 3D space, you toggle a 2D/3D switch for the layer’s group, which then affects all layers inside that group. To move a layer in 3D, select it and switch from the normal Select/Transform tool to the Adjust 3D Transform tool (shortcut=Q). You can freely drag and spin a layer by dragging on its axes in the viewer, or you can use Motion’s HUD (Heads Up Display, shortcut=F7). Dragging on various icons inside the HUD constrains your movement to specific axes; holding the Command key while dragging yields useful alternatives. For example, Command+dragging the Z Axis Move icon also adjusts the layer’s Scale so that the layer appears the same size in the active camera view, even as it moves closer or farther away. The same HUD can be used for 3D cameras and lights. The HUD also contains other parameters relevant to the selected object, such as the camera’s Angle of View or a light’s Intensity and Falloff. A subset of these move icons for the camera also appears in the upper right corner of the viewer, even when a non-camera object is selected. Apple is good at building special tools to perform common 56 DV SEPTEMBER 2007 WWW.DV.COM http://www.dv.com
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