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Table Of Contents
- Motion User Manual
- Contents
- Motion 2 Documentation and Resources
- Getting To Know Motion
- Creating and Managing Projects
- Creating New Projects
- Managing Projects
- Editing Project Properties
- Browsing Media Files in Motion
- File Types Supported by Motion
- Adding Media to Your Project
- Managing Objects in Your Project
- Deleting Objects From a Project
- Exchanging Media in a Project
- Object Media Tab Parameters
- Using Media in the Library
- Organizing Layers and Objects in Motion
- The Background of Your Project
- Selecting Objects and Layers in the Layers Tab
- Reorganizing Objects in the Layers Tab
- Nesting Layers Inside Other Layers
- Grouping and Ungrouping Objects
- Showing and Hiding Layers and Objects
- Fixing the Size of a Layer
- Locking Layers and Objects
- Collapsing and Uncollapsing Layer Hierarchies
- Renaming Layers
- Searching for Layers and Objects
- Sorting Layers and Objects in the Media Tab
- Customizing and Creating New Templates
- Basic Compositing
- Using the Timeline
- Using Behaviors
- Keyframes and Curves
- Using Text
- Working With Particles
- The Anatomy of a Particle System
- Using Particle Systems
- Creating Graphics and Animations for Particle Systems
- Advanced Particle System Controls
- Animating Objects in Particle Systems
- Using Behaviors With Particle Systems
- Applying Filters to Particle Systems
- Particle System Examples
- Saving Custom Particle Effects to the Library
- Using the Replicator
- The Difference Between the Replicator and a Particle System
- The Anatomy of the Replicator
- Using the Replicator
- Advanced Replicator Controls
- Animating Replicator Parameters
- Using the Sequence Replicator Behavior
- Using Behaviors With Replicators
- Applying Filters to Replicators
- Saving Custom Replicators to the Library
- Using Filters
- About Filters
- Working With Filters
- An Introduction to Filters
- Working With Filters
- Enabling, Renaming, and Locking Filters
- Copying, Pasting, and Moving Filters
- Reordering Filters
- Changing Filter Timing
- Blur Filters
- A Fun Effect That Can Be Used With All the Blur Filters
- Border Filters
- Color Correction Filters
- Distortion Filters
- Glow Filters
- Keying Filters
- Matte Filters
- Sharpen Filters
- Stylize Filters
- Tiling Filters
- Working With Third-Party Filters
- Working With Generators
- Using Shapes and Masks
- Working With Audio
- Exporting Motion Projects
- Keyboard Shortcuts
- Video and File Formats
- Supported File Formats
- Standard Definition vs. High Definition Video Formats
- Popular Video Codecs for File Exchange
- What Is Field Order?
- Using Square or Nonsquare Pixels When Creating Graphics
- Differences in Color Between Computer and Video Graphics
- Using Fonts and Creating Line Art for Video
- Scaling Imported High-Resolution Graphics
- Creating Graphics for HD Projects
- Integration With Final Cut Pro
- Using Gestures
- Index
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Create New Project: Opens the Select Project Preset window, allowing you to pick a
preset to use to create a new, blank project file. If a default project preset is set, this
window does not appear.
Show Welcome Screen: Shows the Welcome Screen every time Motion is opened.
Browse Templates: Opens the Template Browser, allowing you to pick a template to
use.
To display the Welcome Screen once you have dismissed it, choose Help > Show
Welcome (or press Command+0).
For more information about options available in Motion Preferences, see “
Preferences”
on page 107.
Creating New Projects From Templates
The easiest way to create a new project in Motion is to open one of the existing
templates and customize it for your own purposes. Motion templates are simply pre-
made projects, available from the Template Browser, that are set up for easy
customization. Motion comes with a variety of royalty-free templates that you can use
and customize. Each template contains pre-made graphics, text objects, and
backgrounds that you can use as is, or exchange with your own custom objects to
make the design your own.
Eventually, you can extend this collection by creating your own templates of frequently
used layouts. For example, if you regularly create titles and graphics sequences for a
television series, you can create a group of templates for the show that contains layouts
for every motion graphics shot you need. For future shows, you can then open these
existing templates and customize them with updated text and graphics, without
needing to recreate each layout from scratch.
The templates that come with Motion are available in NTSC and PAL resolutions. All
templates are organized into collections, which are groups of templates assembled
along a common theme.
To create a new project from a template:
1 To open the Template Browser, do one of the following:
• When Motion first opens, click Start with a Template.
• If Motion is already open, choose File > Open Template (or press
Shift+Command+O).
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