Subtitles of the Movie

Noise Industries also has several Effects Generators. These generators can be used to embellish your graphics and video or be used as objects themselves. The first set of Generators we'll look at are part of Futurismo Backgrounds. Let's look at a few. These Generators create natural effects and beautiful abstract effects that fill the Canvas. Say you need an earth graphic for a news show. Just apply the Earth Generator. It's a little too realistic and not newsy enough? Just pick the Newscast Preset and I'll pull back a bit with the Position Z parameter. Very nice. You'll find that besides being beautiful these generators are also fast. Data Space generates text in a 3D Array with a moving camera. You can animate the Character Code Offset so the animation can start with random text and then animate to resolve to the text you have typed in. Just set two keyframes like this and play it. The speed of the generator's 3D move is set in the Duration parameter. Higher numbers make it slower. The Sinewave Generator creates beautiful undulating wave patterns. Let's turn on the Edge Blur option. This is great for backgrounds and if you throw a Mask on it you have a nice lower third. Speed is also set by the Duration parameter. The Spread Generator is very useful. You can immediately see that this is a particle generator and has some familiar controls. Particle size, Spin controls - it does have some of its own custom shapes. So, why do we need this Generator? Let's look at another copy of the Spread Generator. This one is using a Custom Particle, this moving object. Let's play it. That's pretty cool, but what I'm most interested in is this Playback Speed. I'll stop and I'll crank up the number of particles to 200 and play it again and we're still maintaining 30 frames per second. That's impressive. In the Layer stack I have another particle system; this one uses Motion's built-in Emitter, but it has the same particle source and when I play it the emission starts to slow down fairly soon. Let's turn off that group and back to the Spread Generator and play that again. Because it's so much faster than Motion's default Particles you get more interactive control over its 3D view. Very nice. The next Generator is from Sugar FX and it's called Folding Cards. Let's play it. Two strips animate across the screen and resolve into a title and video. Let's look at the Inspector. Sugar FX Generators are made with the video professional in mind in terms of elements needed for a broadcast show, so in the Elements pop-up you will find several useful versions of the animation geared to specific uses. We just saw the Open, so let's take a look at the Close version. Very nice. All the animation is handled within a Generator so you don't have any control of how the strips move. You do have control of speed of the animation as the elements build toward their Hero position. This, again, is set with a Duration parameter. Longer durations make the animation play more slowly. You may also change whether you want to display one or both strips with these Favor Color checkboxes and you can change the colors of strips. Right now I have a custom set of colors but you can pick one from the Color Palette Presets here. Text is set with the Main Title and Subtitle parameters and if you have video to integrate with this generator, enable it here in the Object Well for the video is here. If you notice any rough edges or jaggies to the elements then you might think that the parameter at the bottom called Anti-aliasing will help you. As of this version, 1.6.2, it does not. This parameter is not implemented yet. So, what I suggest is that you enable Motion Blur for your render as it will help smooth things out. Let's open another project and take a look at another Sugar FX Generator called Urban. This generator has custom zones complete with matting and deformations that conform your video to background footage. This background footage is part of the generator. There are several scenes, as we can see in the Element Presets. Again, this generator is built with broadcast users in mind so you have several elements that could be used as titles, or bumpers, or interstitials of some kind. So now you have an introduction to the many Plug-ins available to Motion. I've highlighted the ones that I think are important to a graphic professional's workflow. With these Plug-ins you have real 3D objects, nearly instantaneous bumpers, beautiful backgrounds and fully automated batch creation of graphics. Very impressive.