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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: If you do not select another layer to paste the object into, the object is pasted
into its original layer.
Use the Edit menu, the shortcut (Control-click) menu, and the Canvas for additional
Duplicate, Cut, and Delete commands. In addition to the Layers tab, you can also copy,
duplicate, and delete objects in the Canvas and Timeline. Deleting an object (an audio
file, image, or image sequence) from any of these locations does not delete the
associated media file from your project. To permanently remove a media file from your
project, you must delete it from the Media tab.
Grouping Objects
You can group multiple objects in the Layers list. Grouping objects creates a new layer
within the layer that contains the nested objects. When behaviors, filters, and
transforms are applied to a layer created by grouping, all objects within the layer are
affected. You can also expand the layer and apply effects to its individual objects.
To group objects in the Layers list:
1 Select the objects that you want to group.
2 Choose Object > Group (or press Command+Shift+G).
Selected objects prior to grouping
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