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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
Chapter 10 Using Filters 705
Where Filters Appear
Once you apply a filter, it appears underneath the object to which it is applied in the
Layers tab and the Timeline.
The filters also appear in the order in which they are applied in the Filters tab of the
Inspector.
When a filter is applied to an object, it is applied with the filter’s default settings. For
example, when you apply the Bevel border filter to an object, that object appears with
a border with the angle of the light hitting the bevel set to 0 degrees, the width of the
bevel set to 0.2, its opacity set to 0.8, and the color of the bevel’s light set to white. See
“
Bevel” on page 723 for more details.
Improving Performance With Filters
When applying filters to several different objects in Motion, it is recommended to
apply the filters to the objects’ parent layer. Also, when applying filters to very large
layers (such as a layer containing a growing particle system), it is recommended to
turn on the Fixed Resolution parameter in the Layer tab of the Inspector. When Fixed
Resolution is turned on, objects that are in the layer but are outside of the Canvas are
cropped to the size of the layer defined in the parameter. The Layer tab is only
available when a layer is the selected object. For more information, “Fixing the Size of
a Layer” on page 204.
Note: When enabled, the Fixed Resolution parameter crops the layer to the size
specified in the Fixed Width and Fixed Height parameters around the anchor point of
the layer.
Layers tab
Timeline tab
Filters tab
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