2
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
Chapter 3 Basic Compositing 239
Cropping Objects
Cropping allows you to chop off each of the four edges of an object to eliminate parts
you don’t want to see in your composition. Common examples of objects you’d want to
crop are video clips with a black line along the right or left edge because of the video
format, or with vignetting around the edges because of a wide-angle lens. You can use
the crop operation to cut these undesirable artifacts out when using them in your
composition. You could also crop an object to isolate a single element of the image, so
long as that element can be adequately cut out with a simple rectangular shape.
Note: If you need to isolate a more irregularly shaped object, or you want to create a
border of a particular shape, see “
Using Shapes and Masks” on page 819 for more
information.
To crop an object in the Canvas:
1 Click the Select/Transform tool, then choose the Adjust Crop tool from the pop-up
menu.
2 Drag one of the eight handles around the edge of the object to crop it:
• Drag the top, left, right, or bottom handle to only crop that side.
Cropping in the Inspector vs. in the Media Tab
When you crop an imported image using the onscreen tool (which is the same as
using the Crop controls in the object’s Properties tab), only the instance of that file is
cropped. The source image in the Media tab is not cropped. To crop the source
image, you must select the object in the Media tab of the Project pane, then use the
Crop tools in the Media tab of the Inspector. For more information, see “Object
Parameters in the Media Tab” on page 185.
Before cropping After cropping
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