The following information is intended to get you up and running with Motion 2 as quickly as possible and covers the following topics:

• Contents of the box
• Upgrading Mac OS X and QuickTime
• Installing and serializing Motion
• Installing Motion Content
• Registering Motion
• Using onscreen help
• Contacting AppleCare Support

Be sure to also review the Before You Install Motion document on the Motion installation DVD. For the latest information on Motion, go to the Motion website at http://www.apple.com/motion.

About the Contents of Your Motion Box
Your Motion box contains software and documentation that you can use to create compelling visual projects.

Installation DVD
The Motion installation DVD contains the Install Motion and Install Motion Content installers, as well as the Motion Documentation folder. Install Motion contains the Motion and Compressor application software, the Motion Series LiveFonts, and PDF documentation. Install Motion Content contains the Motion Library Content, Motion Templates, and Motion Tutorial Media.

This document explains the new features and enhancements released in Motion 3. For more information about these features and their use, see the Motion User Manual and the Motion Supplemental Documentation, available from the Motion Help menu.

3D
Motion 3 now supports a three-dimensional, multiplane compositing environment, allowing you to create sophisticated 3D motion graphics with depth and new levels of realism. In the Motion 3D workspace, you can:

• Add and animate cameras, images, and text along paths in three dimensions.
• Create particle systems and replicators with height, width, and depth.
• Apply behaviors such as Throw, Spin, and Vortex in 3D space.
• Apply new camera behaviors that automate sweeping pans and dramatic zooms.
• Stylize your projects with a combination of blend modes and scene lights.

Motion Tracking and Stabilization
Using the new Motion Tracking behaviors, you can stabilize handheld camera shots, track the individual points of a shape or mask to background element, and more. The new Motion Tracking behaviors include:

In 1968, Sony set new high performance standards with the introduction of the Trinitron® CRT, and they’ve always been driven to set the performance bar even higher. In 1984 they unveiled a pair of TVs they labeled with a new moniker – XBR. Since then Sony XBR TVs have been the ultimate Sony TV for the most discerning customer. Now it’s 2008, and advanced flat-panel designs have replaced the venerable Trinitron tube. But XBR lives on – still representing the best consumer television Sony’s television engineers can produce.

Key Features: KDL-46XBR8 & KDL-55XBR8 (diagonal)

Thank you for purchasing an HP Pavilion LCD Highdefinition Television. The HP Pavilion LCD HDTV is designed to deliver a fantastic image for an immersive home theater experience.

Features:

• Premium LCD panel technology delivers up to 800:1 contrast for rich detail, fast response time for no-smear motion video, and ultrawide viewing angles with a minimum of color shift.
• Built-in digital and analog tuning receives and decodes HDTV, digital, and analog broadcasts received from off-air antennas and cable providers.
• Digital cable readiness enables use of an authorized CableCARD (certain countries/regions only) to receive digital cable television systems services directly from the cable operator without requiring a separate cable box. (Contact your local cable company for information regarding acquiring CableCARD.)
• HDMI interface offers pure digital video and audio quality through a lossless digital interface to DVD players, cable and satellite receivers, and AV receivers.

Getting With Google Analytics

Once you’ve obtained or signed into your Google Account (either through GMail, Google Premiere Apps, etc), visit the Google Analytics website at: http://www.google.com/analytics.

Adding a New Account
Get started by entering in the basic details of the website that you wish to track. You will also fill in some additional details on the following screens.

Tracking Instructions
Once you’ve put in the basic information required, Google Analytics will give you back some JavaScript code that you can paste into the footer of the pages of your website that you wish to track – but if you’re using WordPress, you can do something far more clever than that. Copy the tracking code from the window provided and put it in a safe place. Time to move on to WordPress.

Plugging It In To WordPress

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