Replicate for Fun Transitions (With Motion)
Tuesday, August 28, 2007 Filed in: Weekly Tip
The Replicator in
Motion is a very cool tool for creating patterns
out of shapes. It also happens to be a cool way to
create a custom transition. Worried you don’t know
Motion? Don’t worry, we’re simply going to use
Motion’s prebuilt Replicators to create a
semi-custom transition.
Like this tip? It comes from the book
Final Cut Studio On the Spot from Focal Press.
- Launch Motion and create a project to match your FCP project size.
- In the Utility pane click the Library tab (Command + 2).
- Choose Replicators > Transitional.
- Click on one of the prebuilt Replicators listed. As you choose different ones, they will be previewed in the top part of the Library tab.
- Choose one you like (we chose Dots Burst Edge Out) and drag it to the Canvas
- Play back the Canvas with the space bar. Pretty cool right? Problem is, it’s just a little boring. Let’s fix that.
- Click on the Replicator in the Canvas.
- Choose the Inspector tab in the Utility pane (Command + 3) and then the Replicator tab.
- About three
quarters of the way down, find the Color Mode
pulldown. Here you can keep the original (white);
Colorize it, which lets you pick a color; Over
Pattern, which lets you create or choose a
pattern of color by picking a number of
repetitions; or Pick From Color Range, where you
can choose or create a range of colors for the
Replicator.
- Lets choose Over Pattern. Notice below the Color Mode pulldown a new parameter appears called Color Gradient. We could make our own gradient but for simplicity’s sake, lets choose a prebuilt one from the Gradient pulldown to the right of the display of the gradient.
- Choose one you like (we chose Candy Corn).
- Next, setup the
Timeline for export. To do this simply drag the
playhead in the mini Timeline (which is right
above the transport controls).
Like this tip? It comes from the book
Final Cut Studio On the Spot from Focal Press.