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Table Of Contents
- Motion User Manual
- Contents
- Motion 2 Documentation and Resources
- Getting To Know Motion
- Creating and Managing Projects
- Creating New Projects
- Managing Projects
- Editing Project Properties
- Browsing Media Files in Motion
- File Types Supported by Motion
- Adding Media to Your Project
- Managing Objects in Your Project
- Deleting Objects From a Project
- Exchanging Media in a Project
- Object Media Tab Parameters
- Using Media in the Library
- Organizing Layers and Objects in Motion
- The Background of Your Project
- Selecting Objects and Layers in the Layers Tab
- Reorganizing Objects in the Layers Tab
- Nesting Layers Inside Other Layers
- Grouping and Ungrouping Objects
- Showing and Hiding Layers and Objects
- Fixing the Size of a Layer
- Locking Layers and Objects
- Collapsing and Uncollapsing Layer Hierarchies
- Renaming Layers
- Searching for Layers and Objects
- Sorting Layers and Objects in the Media Tab
- Customizing and Creating New Templates
- Basic Compositing
- Using the Timeline
- Using Behaviors
- Keyframes and Curves
- Using Text
- Working With Particles
- The Anatomy of a Particle System
- Using Particle Systems
- Creating Graphics and Animations for Particle Systems
- Advanced Particle System Controls
- Animating Objects in Particle Systems
- Using Behaviors With Particle Systems
- Applying Filters to Particle Systems
- Particle System Examples
- Saving Custom Particle Effects to the Library
- Using the Replicator
- The Difference Between the Replicator and a Particle System
- The Anatomy of the Replicator
- Using the Replicator
- Advanced Replicator Controls
- Animating Replicator Parameters
- Using the Sequence Replicator Behavior
- Using Behaviors With Replicators
- Applying Filters to Replicators
- Saving Custom Replicators to the Library
- Using Filters
- About Filters
- Working With Filters
- An Introduction to Filters
- Working With Filters
- Enabling, Renaming, and Locking Filters
- Copying, Pasting, and Moving Filters
- Reordering Filters
- Changing Filter Timing
- Blur Filters
- A Fun Effect That Can Be Used With All the Blur Filters
- Border Filters
- Color Correction Filters
- Distortion Filters
- Glow Filters
- Keying Filters
- Matte Filters
- Sharpen Filters
- Stylize Filters
- Tiling Filters
- Working With Third-Party Filters
- Working With Generators
- Using Shapes and Masks
- Working With Audio
- Exporting Motion Projects
- Keyboard Shortcuts
- Video and File Formats
- Supported File Formats
- Standard Definition vs. High Definition Video Formats
- Popular Video Codecs for File Exchange
- What Is Field Order?
- Using Square or Nonsquare Pixels When Creating Graphics
- Differences in Color Between Computer and Video Graphics
- Using Fonts and Creating Line Art for Video
- Scaling Imported High-Resolution Graphics
- Creating Graphics for HD Projects
- Integration With Final Cut Pro
- Using Gestures
- Index
108 Chapter 1 Getting To Know Motion
Open Last Project(s): Any projects that were open when the program was last quit are
reopened. This allows a continuity of work across sessions.
Create New Project: This command opens a new empty project. If a default preset has
not been chosen, the Preset selection dialog appears.
Show Welcome Screen: This is the default setting. Upon startup, you are presented
with four options: To see a Quick Tour of the application, open the Template Browser,
Start with a New Project, or Begin with a Tutorial.
Browse Templates: This option takes you directly to the Template Browser. For more
information on working with templates, see “
Creating New Projects From Templates”
on page 141.
Interface
This section allows you to set some general options for the interface.
Drop Menu Delay: This setting determines how long you must wait before the drop
menu appears when dragging to the Timeline, mini-Timeline, Layers tab, or Canvas. The
drop menu provides additional choices for editing and importing objects into the
project.
Show Tooltips: This checkbox turns tooltips on and off across the application. Tooltips
provide explanatory information such as names and basic usage techniques. They
appear when you pause the pointer over tools and controls.
File Browser & Library
These settings affect how the Utility window displays the contents of the File Browser
and Library.
Display Folders: This setting lets you choose between listing folders alphabetically
within the list of objects or grouped together at the end of the list after all non-folder
objects.
Show preview icons: This checkbox turns preview icons on and off in the Utility
window. For example, when turned on, the first frame of a QuickTime movie is
displayed. When turned off, the Finder QuickTime icon is displayed.
Play Items Automatically on Single Click: This checkbox controls whether the Preview
area automatically plays the contents of the item selected in the file stack.
Memory & Cache
This setting controls the amount of your computer’s memory you want to allocate to
Motion. The larger the percentage, the less memory that is available for other
applications.
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