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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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Click the Show Columns button at the right of the column headers, then choose the
item you want to hide from the pop-up menu.
Editing Columns
Any window that contains columns of data can be reorganized to suit your needs. You
can change the order in which columns appear, as well as the size of the cells. For
example, in the Media tab, you may want the Frame Size column to appear before the
Name column. For specific instructions on how to edit columns, see “
Editing Columns”
on page 57.
Adding and Removing Media
The Media tab has controls to add new files and to remove existing objects from the
project.
To add a file to the Media tab:
1 Click the Add (+) button in the upper-left corner of the tab.
The Import Files dialog appears.
2 Navigate to the file you want to add to your project, then select the file.
3 Click Import.
The file is added to the Media tab.
Note: Objects added directly to the Media tab are not added to the Canvas.
To remove an object from the Media tab:
1 Select the object you want to remove.
2 Click the Delete (–) button in the upper-left corner of the tab.
The media is removed. If the media is used in the Canvas, an alert appears asking you
to confirm that you want to remove the objects.
Filtering the Media Tab
As your project becomes more complex, you may want to temporarily hide certain
objects from view. This allows you to focus on one or more objects without the
distraction of all the other objects in your list. You can perform this sort of filtering by
using the Search field in the upper-right corner of the tab. For instructions on how to
filter the Media tab, see “
Filtering the Layers List View” on page 59.
Additional Options
Quite a few additional features are available in the Media tab, which you can find in the
shortcut menu that appears when you Control-click objects in the list. The actions in
this menu apply to the selected object or objects.
Open in Viewer: Opens the selected item in the Viewer window. This is equivalent to
double-clicking an object in the File Browser.
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