How to Cheat in Motion

A guide to enhancing your titles, motion graphics and visual effects with Motion. It features illustrations and instruction. It offers a library of effects and techniques that you can replicate.

Creative solutions without the filler, that is what you get from this practical guide to enhancing your titles, motion graphics and visual effects with Motion. In this work, step-by-step instruction is concisely described and lavishly illustrated. The companion CD shows the techniques at work so you can take them and run. This work is: a practical, quick-solution guide to using Motion in your editing workflow; packed with step-by-step illustrations and succinct instruction; includes a CD with a library of effects and techniques that you can replicate.

Patrick Sheffield has 20 years of film and video postproduction experience with credit for more than 500 commercials, and 200 music videos, including an MTV award for Music Video Award for Best Editing in a Music Video for the REM video Everybody Hurts. As a partner in Pistolera Post, Patrick uses the Apple professional suite of applications to edit and finish material for broadcast television, DVD, and the web. His music videos have included acclaimed artists such as Madonna, Michael Jackson, Elton John, and the Rolling Stones, and he has edited all the NBC Emmy award winning PSAs The More You Know for the last 3 years. Patrick is active on the Apple Support Discussions forum for their Pro Applications, ranked as the highest poster in the Motion and Shake forums.