Apple Motion users: if you want to create generators, titles or effects for use in Final Cut Pro X, this tutorial by Iain Anderson will help you rigging (combining multiple parameters in a simple GUI)
What is rigging?
Get started
Create a checkbox rig
Edit Mode
Note: If you want to add a parameter to a widget, but that parameter is already at the value you want, it’s easiest to change it (to anything else), leave Edit Mode, then change the value back.
Create a pop-up rig
Create a slider rig
Revising your rigs
More uses for rigs
Conclusion
Iain Anderson Iain Anderson is an editor, animator, designer, developer and Apple Certified Trainer based in Brisbane, Australia. He has taught privately and in tertiary institutions, and has freelanced for Microsoft and the Queensland Government.
Comfortable with anything from Quartz Composer to Second Life and Final Cut Pro to Adobe Creative Suite, he has laid out books, booklets, brochures and business cards; retouched magazine covers and product packaging, shot and edited short films and animated for HD broadcast TV, film festivals and for the web.
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