Compositing a Flood Effect in Apple Motion

Apple's Motion includes a number of particles and filters for creating fluid effects. But what it doesn't have is a one-step solution for generating a flood effect--taking a piece of footage and making it look as if a portion of the image is surrounded by a body of water. For that, you'll need to do some compositing. Here's how it works.

An Introduction to Motion

As with all of our tutorials, this one isn't designed to teach you one particular effect. Rather, it's meant to acquaint you with the functionality of Motion and to give you some reference points for using some of the specific tool that are included in the project. These, in turn, will be useful for you when you're working on other projects.

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