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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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Index
Index
3D filter 737
A
AAC files 174, 878
Action Safe Region 116
Active command 61
Add blend mode 257
Adding
categories to Template Browser 214
keyframes 416, 434
layers 278
Additive Blend
for emitters 600
Add new preset 119
Adjust Anchor Point tool 28, 225
Adjust Control Points tool 28, 225
Adjust Control Point tool 28
Adjust Crop tool 28, 225
Adjust Drop Shadow tool 28, 225
Adjust Four Corner tool 28, 225
Adjust Item tool 28, 225
Adjust Shear tool 28, 225
After Last Keyframe 442
AIFF files 878
Alignment commands 130, 228
Align To Motion behavior 369
Alpha Add blend mode 268
Alpha channels
about 173
and particle systems 585
creating with masks 851
exporting projects with 902
imported into Final Cut Pro 957
manipulating with filters 873
using Blend modes with 266
video codecs and 949
Alpha Overlay 41
Amplitude
for emitters 596
Anchor point
changing 234
Angle
for emitters 599
Animated backgrounds
creating 613
Animated particles 566
Animate Image
particles 606
Animating
generators 808
on the fly 446
replicators 673
shapes 847
text parameters 559
Animation
aligning keyframes 420
basic techniques 405
deleting keyframes 422
in the Canvas 405
in the Dashboard 409
in the Keyframe Editor 424–446
in the Timeline 419–424
modifying keyframes in the Timeline 420
moving a keyframe in time 420
thinning keyframes 428
trimming keyframed effects 423
Animation codec 948
Animation menu 415
Parameter behaviors in 328
states of 418
Animation paths 409
adding keyframes 409
Bezier points 409
displaying 42
Apple M-JPEG codec 949
Apple technical support 12
Application menu 124
Archiving
projects 156
QuickTime video 157
Arranging layers 219
Artifacts
and Motion J-PEG 949
and video codecs 949–950
Aspect ratio
correcting for 42, 116
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