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Contents
Part II Achieving Popular Industry Effects 73
chapter 4 Popular Dramatic Effects 75
Unlimited Real-Time Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Render status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Creating the Pleasantville effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
The Ken Burns effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Achieving the film look with video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
The moving filmstrip effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Shake Up Your Transitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Creating your own gradient wipes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Using filters as transitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
White flash transitions for effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Luma Keying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Utilizing Alpha Mattes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Adjusting the title in Viewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Accessing Apple Motion templates in Final Cut Pro . . . . . . . . . . 108
Creating marker durations to designate an area in a sequence . . . . 109
The Time Remap tool and the alternative to using it . . . . . . . . . . 109
Playing a clip in reverse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Using specialized characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Q&A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
chapter 5 Creating Dynamic Text and Effects with
Apple Motion 119
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