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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
Chapter 1
Orientation
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The following example project uses the NTSC Broadcast SD (Standard Definition)
project preset. For more information on creating new projects and project presets, see
Chapter 2, “Creating and Managing Projects,” in
Motion Help
.
To create a project:
1
From the Welcome Screen, click Start with a New Project.
The Select Project Preset dialog appears.
2
Choose NTSC Broadcast SD from the Preset pop-up menu.
The NTSC Broadcast SD preset is selected. In the Select Project Preset dialog, you can
set a default project preset that is used each time you start a new project in Motion. To
set the preset as the default, click Set as Default and turn on the “Create new
documents using the default preset option.”
3
Click OK (or press
Return
).
A new standard-definition broadcast resolution (D1, 720 x 486) project opens with a
default duration of 300 frames, or 10 seconds.
Choose a project preset.
Click to set the current
preset as the default
project setting.
Turn on this checkbox to use the default
project preset for any new project.
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