Introduction

Welcome to Apple Motion 5 Cookbook! We've all got our reasons for being here. It could be the awesome $50.00 price tag that got us excited. Maybe it was a 30-second motion graphic intro we saw on television last night and want to duplicate, or the effects and transitions we love to work with in FCP X that we want to customize just a little more. Whatever the reason, one thing remains true; Motion 5 is a deep, powerful, and flexible application for a variety of creative workflows and the reason you're here is to learn how to better utilize it. Motion 5's interface can be a bit overwhelming the first time you open it, but with a little knowledge about how it works out of the gate, the better prepared we will be to focus on the good stuff; making our projects dance!