Instruction Manual
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Chapter 1: Motion basics
- Chapter 2: Introduction to the Motion interface
- Chapter 3: Motion menus
- Chapter 4: Preferences
- Chapter 5: User interface controls
- Chapter 6: Create and manage projects
- Chapter 7: Basic compositing
- Chapter 8: Timeline
- Timeline overview
- Manage Timeline layers
- Manage Timeline layers overview
- Enable Timeline tracks
- Timeline track display
- Collapse and expand groups and layers
- Lock Timeline tracks
- Manage audio-video links
- Timeline view options
- Zoom in the Timeline
- Adjust Timeline track height
- Customize track display
- Name objects in the Timeline layers list
- Manage track order
- Nest groups and layers
- Add objects to the Timeline
- Edit objects in the Timeline
- Display and modify keyframes in the Timeline
- Work in the ruler
- Markers
- Mini-Timeline
- Chapter 9: Behaviors
- Behaviors overview
- Behaviors versus keyframes
- Browse for behaviors
- Where applied behaviors appear
- Use behaviors
- Modify behaviors
- Work with behaviors
- Behavior order of operations
- Modify behavior timing
- Combine behaviors with keyframes
- Animate behavior parameters
- Save and share custom behaviors
- Basic Motion behaviors
- Parameter behaviors
- Retiming behaviors
- Simulation behaviors
- Additional behaviors
- Chapter 10: Rigs and widgets
- Chapter 11: Final Cut Pro X templates
- Final Cut Pro X templates overview
- Template types
- How templates work
- Create and edit an effect
- Create and edit a title
- Create and edit a transition
- Create and edit a generator
- Use images in template placeholders
- Publishing parameters in templates
- Animation and timing in templates
- Template markers
- Template resolution
- Using masks in templates
- Template files and media save location
- Add multiple display aspect ratios to a template
- Tips for creating templates
- Chapter 12: Keyframing
- Chapter 13: Keying
- Chapter 14: Particles
- Particles overview
- Anatomy of a particle system
- Particle systems and layer sizes
- Create particle systems
- Adjust a particle emitter in the HUD
- Adjust a particle emitter and its cells in the Inspector
- Adjust a particle emitter in the Properties Inspector
- Particle Emitter Timing controls
- Create graphics for particle systems
- Animate objects in particle systems
- Use masks with particle systems
- Apply filters to particle systems
- Particle system examples
- Save custom particle effects to the Library
- Chapter 15: Replicator
- Replicator overview
- Anatomy of a replicator
- About replicator cell source layers
- Create a replicator
- Adjust a replicator and cells in the HUD
- Adjust a replicator and cells in the Inspector
- Adjust a replicator in the Properties Inspector
- Replicator Timing controls
- Use replicator onscreen controls
- Use image and geometry objects
- Animate replicators
- Animate replicators overview
- Apply behaviors to replicators
- Special behavior considerations
- Apply the Sequence Replicator behavior
- Add parameters to the Sequence Replicator behavior
- Adjust the Sequence Control parameters
- Sequence Replicator controls
- Use the Sequence Replicator Custom Traversal option
- Use Parameter behaviors with the Sequence Replicator behavior
- Display replicator animation curves in the Keyframe Editor
- Use replicators in 3D space
- Use masks with replicators
- Apply filters to replicators
- Save custom replicators to the Library
- Chapter 16: Text
- Text overview
- Set preferences for text
- Create text
- Use text files created externally
- Ways to edit text
- Text tools in the toolbar
- About fonts
- Text HUD
- Text Inspector
- Edit text format
- Edit text style
- Edit text layout
- Text Layout pane
- Layout controls in the Layout pane
- Text Rendering controls in the Layout pane
- Behavior controls in the Layout pane
- Type On controls in the Layout pane
- Path Options controls in the Layout pane
- Text path-related tasks
- Margins controls in the Layout pane
- Tab controls in the Layout pane
- Margin and tab-related tasks
- Text glyphs
- Find and replace text
- Apply filters to text
- Chapter 17: Animated text
- Animated text overview
- Text animation behaviors
- Sequence Text behavior
- Scroll Text behavior
- Text Tracking behavior
- Type On behavior
- Preset Text Sequence behaviors
- Save a modified text behavior to the Library
- Use behaviors to animate text in 3D
- Animate text with keyframes
- Animate with the Transform Glyph tool
- Add nontext behaviors to text
- Chapter 18: Generators
- Chapter 19: Filters
- Filters overview
- Browse and preview filters
- Apply and remove filters
- Filter performance considerations
- Filters and cropping
- Adjust filters
- Animate filter parameters
- Apply behaviors to filter parameters
- Publish filter parameters and onscreen controls
- Manipulate alpha channels using filters
- Blur filters
- Border filters
- Color Correction filters
- Distortion filters
- Glow filters
- Sharpen filters
- Stylize filters
- Tiling filters
- Time filters
- Video filters
- Chapter 20: Shapes, masks, and paint strokes
- Shapes, masks, and paint strokes overview
- Draw simple shapes
- Add shapes from the Library
- Draw complex spline shapes and masks
- Edit shape fill, outline, and feathering
- Draw paint strokes
- Edit control points
- Edit control points overview
- Display control points
- Select and deselect control points
- Move control points to adjust a shape
- Modify shape edges
- Transform multiple control points
- Add and delete control points
- Lock control points
- Edit Bezier control points
- Edit B-Spline control points
- Use dynamic guides and snapping
- Shape parameters
- Edit shapes as layers
- Shape behaviors
- Keyframe the Shape Animation parameter
- Save shapes and shape styles
- Copy styles between shapes
- Masks and transparency
- Convert between shapes and masks
- Chapter 21: 3D compositing
- Chapter 22: Motion tracking
- Motion tracking overview
- How a tracker works
- Tracking behaviors
- Tracking workflows
- Adjust onscreen trackers
- Strategies for better tracking
- General tracking guidelines
- Basic strategies to improve tracking results
- Advanced strategies to improve tracking results
- Track perspective, scale, or rotational shifts
- Track obscured or off-frame points
- Track retimed footage
- Basic strategies to improve stabilization
- Remove black borders from stabilized clips
- Track groups
- Save tracks
- Tracking behavior controls
- Chapter 23: Audio
- Chapter 24: Share Motion projects
- Share Motion projects overview
- Share to Apple devices
- Share to iMovie, GarageBand, and other Apple applications
- Create a DVD, Blu-ray disc, AVCHD disc, or disk image
- Share to email
- Publish to video-sharing sites
- Export a QuickTime movie
- Export audio only
- Export an image sequence
- Export a still image
- Export for HTTP Live Streaming
- Export using Compressor
- Render settings
- Background rendering
- About Share Monitor
- Chapter 25: About rasterization
- Chapter 26: Video and file formats
- Chapter 27: Gestures
- Chapter 28: Keyboard shortcuts
- Keyboard shortcuts overview
- Enable function keys on portable Macintosh computers
- General interface commands
- Menu commands
- Audio list
- Tools
- Transport controls
- View options
- Miscellaneous
- HUD
- File Browser
- Inspector
- Keyframe Editor
- Layers
- Library
- Media list
- Timeline editing and navigating
- Keyframing commands
- Shape and Mask commands
- Toolbar
- 3D commands
- Use the Command Editor
Chapter 16 Text 625
When a text object and the 3D Transform tool (in the toolbar) are selected, the 3D transform
tools become available in the HUD. These additional controls allow you to transform the text
object in X, Y, and Z dimensions, regardless of whether the group is 2D or 3D.
For more information on using the 3D transform tools in the HUD, see 3D transform HUD
controls on page 913.
When the Transform Glyph tool is selected from the 2D transform tools in the toolbar, the
Attribute pop-up menu and 3D transform tools become available in the Text HUD. The Attribute
menu species the glyph attribute to be modied. For more information on glyphs, see Text
glyphs overview on page 669.
Text controls in the HUD
The HUD for a text object contains the following controls:
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Opacity: Drag this slider to change the opacity value of the text object—the text face, outline,
glow, and drop shadow. By default, the opacity of text is set to 100%. This is is the Opacity
parameter located in the Properties Inspector. To change text style elements (Face, Outline,
Glow, and Drop Shadow), use the Style pane of the Text Inspector.
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Blend Mode: Use this pop-up menu to choose a blend mode for the selected text.
Note: The Properties Inspector also contains controls to change the blend mode of the text.
When you change the blend mode of text in the Text HUD, the blend mode is also changed in
the Properties Inspector and vice versa.
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Style (unlabeled): Use this pop-up menu to choose from preset or user-saved text styles, or to
save the current style as a preset.
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Typeface: Use this pop-up menu to choose the type style, such as Bold, Italic, and so on.
Available typefaces are specic to the selected font family.
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Alignment: Use these buttons to set the horizontal and vertical alignment of the text object.
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Color: Click the color well to display the OS X Colors window and choose another color for the
text. You can also Control-click a color well to display the Motion pop-up color palette, then
drag in the color spectrum to select a color.
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Size: Drag this slider to change the point size of text. Text is created at 48 points by default.
67% resize factor