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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
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Kind: Identifies the type of media, including QuickTime movie, still image, QuickTime
audio, or PDF. See “
Video and File Formats” on page 941 for a list of supported codecs
and file types.
Duration: Displays the duration of the media in either frames or timecode.
Frame Size: Displays the native size of the image in pixels. The numbers represent
width and height. This column remains blank for audio only objects.
Compressor: Displays the type of compression used in the clip, if any. This is also
sometimes referred to as a codec.
Depth: Displays the number of colors (bit depth) of the object. Any item listed as
Millions of Colors + indicates that the media contains an alpha channel in addition to
the RGB data.
Vid Rate: Displays the original frames per second of the media. Sequences are listed at
the current project frame rate and still images display no Vid Rate.
Data Rate: Displays the number of bytes per second at which the media file plays.
Aud Rate: Displays the sample rate in the audio track, measured in kilohertz (kHz).
Aud Format: Displays the bits per sample (usually 8 or 16) and the number of channels
(usually mono or stereo) of the audio track.
File Size: Displays the overall file size of the media on disk.
File Created: Displays the creation date of the media.
File Modified: Displays the last date on which the media was modified.
Hiding Columns
You can choose which of the columns are displayed by clicking the Show Columns
button at the right of the column headers.
Items in the list with a checkmark are currently displayed in the Media tab. Items with
no checkmark are currently hidden.
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