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Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Orientation
- About Motion
- Getting Started
- The Motion Interface
- The Utility Window
- The File Browser
- Dynamic Guides
- Importing Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator Files
- The Canvas
- The Toolbar
- Current Frame and Project Duration Fields
- The Transport Controls
- The Mini-Timeline
- The Library
- Motion Dashboards
- The Inspector
- Parameter Basics
- Using the Animation Menu vs. Using the Record Button
- The Project Pane
- The Playground
- Your No. 2 Pencil
- Using the Timeline
- Using Keyframes in Motion
- Keyframe Basics
- Creating Keyframes in the Canvas
- Using Animation Paths
- Keyframe Interpolation Basics
- Using the Keyframe Editor
- Checking Your Selection
- Recording Keyframes During Playback
- Keyframing Objects With Applied Behaviors
- Keyframing in the Dashboard
- Keyframing in the Inspector
- Keyframing Filters
- Converting Behaviors to Keyframes
- Arts and Letters
- Extra Credit
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Note: Press Shift while drawing the shape to constrain the shape’s proportions.
To animate the scale of the rectangular shape:
1 In the Behaviors > Basic Motion subcategory, select the Grow/Shrink behavior.
2 Drag the Grow/Shrink behavior to the shape (in the Canvas or Layers tab).
3 In the Dashboard, drag the box outward to scale up the shape.
Note: To increase the rate of a behavior once its Dashboard controls are moved to their
limits, drag the Zoom slider to zoom out of the Dashboard controls to allow greater
grow or shrink rates.
The shape grows over time at the rate set in the Dashboard.
To use a shape as a mask:
1 Select the layer or object you want to mask.
2 Choose Object > Add Image Mask (or press Shift+Command+M).
Zoom slider control
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