Today I'm going to show you how to use Motion to make a seasonal animation that you can
use in Final Cut Pro X.
Here in Motion's project browser, I'll select a Final Cut Generator project.
Using the Broadcast HD 1080 preset.
A frame rate of 29.97.
And a duration of 10 seconds.
In the Files browser, I'll navigate to a folder where I have some fall images.
I'll add the background image.
Scale it up to fit with the shift and option keys held down.
Then add a Blur filter so we can focus on the foreground elements.
Next, I'll add a leaf.
And I'll press "e" to create an emitter out of it.
If I playback now, I get tons of identical leaves spreading out in all directions.
In the Emitter Inspector, I'll change the Shape to a Line.
In the canvas, I'll press space bar+command and drag left to zoom out a little.
Right click on the leaves and select Emitter.
Then drag the end points of the line wider and up off the top of the viewable area.
Now, I'll press shift+"z" to fit the canvas back to the window.
Start playback and start to introduce some randomness.
In the Emitter Inspector, I'll change the Emission Range to 30.
The Birth Rate to 5.
Birth Rate Randomness to 2.
The Intial Number to 20.
Life to 10.
Speed to 300.
Speed Randomness to 100.
Angle Randomness to 180.
Spin Randomness to 75.
Scale to 40.
And Scale Randomness to 50.
These settings are somewhat arbitrary.
Use your own judgement for your project.
We now have leafs of different sizes and rotations moving in different directions and different
speeds and spinning at different rates.
But, they're all the same color.
First, I'll remove this color by selecting the source leaf.
And using the Hue Saturation Filter.
Setting Saturation to 0.
I'll also apply the Levels Filter.
To increase the contrast a bit.
And remove some of the dark areas.
Then I'll reselect the Emitter.
Change the Color Mode to Pick From Color Range.
And right click the color tags to select some fall-like colors.
I'll click to add more tags and choose more colors.
At the start of the project, there aren't any leafs on the screen.
So I'll drag the emitter bar in the mini timeline left to fill the screen.
Then extend it's outpoint to the end of the project.
To finish the composition, I'll add some text and format it.
And I'll animate it on with a behavior.
Now I'll choose some parameters to publish to Final Cut Pro.
And I'll publish the project with a new category.
Now it's available in the Generator's browser in Final Cut Pro X where I can add it to a
project.
Change the Text.
And adjust the Published Parameters.
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