Subtitles of the Movie

Alright. Welcome to Chapter 2. In this chapter I'll take objects that I've started to work with and I will add Effects to those objects here, so we really start to now roll up our sleeves and work with Motion to make some of these items come alive, some of these objects certainly. So, to get started here I've created a new project, the project Preset was NTSC DV. You can follow along again if you want to and create a new project. You can pause the tape or pause the multimedia presentation, however you want to do it, and I'm going to click on Content and then what will help me for this demonstration here is I'm going to choose my Template Media folder and I'm going to look for something that is in the Travel Folder and what I'm looking for is a Globe Corner. So, that's what it looks like. I'm going to Apply it. Now, it's a little bit big for my purposes so I'll go ahead and zoom out and I'll use the technique that you were introduced to in the previous module to resize that and put it there in the corner. And now if I play through the project it looks like this. If it's selected Ð let me reset the Playhead here Ð if it's selected notice that I can put the Playhead there, Command Option O, and now I've got a loop created that will keep that Corner Globe on screen all the time. Now I'm going to zoom back in a little bit so that you can see this better, and now I'm going to do something else that you probably won't have to. I'm going to add a Behavior and a Filter. I'm going to start with just a Filter in this module here. We'll take another module and add Behaviors, but notice how these things don't pop up. This is just a little quirk in the Motion, but again at your screen resolution this should not be an issue for you. But I'm going to have to do this and that gets me access to these Filters and Behavior Toolbar Buttons here. And what I will do is I will select Ð I'll just give it a click here Ð and I will go to Distortion, Glow, I'll do a Bloom Filter here. So now I've just added a Color Correction Filter to my object and you can already see in real time what that is going to do, how that is going to change the behavior of the object. So now if I play through my loop see how the highlights, as the light is reflecting off the globe it has that Bloom effect. Now I can further modify the properties of that Bloom effect by doing this. I can look at my Heads-Up Display. How do I get to my Heads-Up Display? I can do Function F7, and now I get this little transparent window that is going to be very handy as we start to work with some of these effects. So with this there's a little drop-down here and I can deal with the Globe Corner and change the Opacity. I can add a Drop Shadow if I want to. It's not really going to have a lot of effect here because it's on a black background, but there are a lot of things I can tweak about the image itself, or about the object itself, or I can tweak the properties using my Heads-Up Display, I can tweak the properties of the Filter that I just added. And the options in the Filter are going to change depending on what Filter you added, so we're going to be using this Heads-Up Display over and over again so again, another keyboard shortcut that you should be familiar with, and this is why we spend time with it in the Interface Module in the previous Chapter is that Function F7 key to toggle on and off the Heads-Up Display. So, you could just play around with all these things as you see fit and again, that's going to change, so there's not really one thing I can show you here that's going to be effective as you work with all your Filters, but you can change the amount of Bloom and you can see in real time what the amount of Bloom is going to do. You can change the Brightness level, as you see fit again, or your Threshold. So, if your Threshold, if you lower the Threshold here it will lower the amount of light reflected off the object. In this case that will trigger the Bloom effect. So if I tweak it all the way up to 94, not much of a Bloom will appear. If I lower this Threshold then almost the entire globe appears in Bloom. So, again. What's the right answer? There is no right answer. That is the magic of Motion is that you get to choose what looks best for your particular project. So now I've got a Globe that I've added a little bit of an effect to and now I've started to add effects to my objects.