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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
18 Chapter 1 Orientation
• Mini-Timeline: The mini-Timeline allows you to add objects to your project, to move
objects in time, and to trim the duration of an object without having to go into the
Timing pane, which contains the full Timeline.
The Toolbar
The left side of the Toolbar contains tools for transforming objects onscreen, creating
shapes, and panning and zooming the Canvas.
Toolbar
Canvas
Project Duration field
Current Frame field
Mini-Timeline
Pan
Zoom
Rectangle
Mask
Select
Text
Rectangle Mask
Shape
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