Instruction Manual

145
Create and manage projects overview
A Motion project contains a single composition made up of multiple image layers and applied
eects. When you import still images and video clips into a project, Motion creates a linked
reference to the source media les on disk but doesn’t move, duplicate, or modify the original
les on your hard disk. Motion project les store information about how a composition is
assembled, what media les on disk are used, and what eects from the Library have been
applied. In addition to imported media, project les also contain shapes, masks, and text layers
you create in the application.
To learn more about creating and managing projects, choose a topic in the Help table of
contents (the sidebar to the left of this window).
Create projects
Create Projects Overview
Creating a project is the rst step in the Motion workow. There are three ways to start a project:
•
Open one of the supplied templates.
•
Open a blank project using a project preset.
•
Open a blank project using your own settings (for example, if you need an unusual frame size
or frame rate not included in the project presets).
Motion is resolution-independent, which means it supports projects using a range of frame sizes
and frame rates. You can create small movies for streaming on the web, standard-denition
and high-denition movies for broadcast, and even lm-resolution les for large-screen
display. Regardless of the resolution you choose, the Motion workow is the same (although
high-resolution projects using large media les can have higher memory and graphics card
requirements than projects with smaller resolutions).
Motion is also hardware-dependent. This means that the type of graphics card installed on
your computer aects performance and determines the maximum le size you can import
into Motion. For most recommended cards, the image size limit is 4K or 8K. However, other
factors aect performance, including the amount of VRAM on your computer and the number
of monitors connected to your graphics card. For the best results, resize very large images to
the largest size required in the project, but no larger. Computers with minimum amounts of
VRAM may experience poor performance (or other issues) when creating 4K projects. For more
information, visit the Motion website at http://www.apple.com/nalcutpro/motion.
Note: Because of hardware limitations and dierences, the appearance of projects shared
between computers with dierent installed graphics cards may vary.
Create and manage projects
67% resize factor
6