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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
706 Chapter 10 Using Filters
Adjusting Filters
Filters can be tailored to your specific needs by adjusting their parameters. The
parameters can be adjusted in a number of different ways, such as using sliders in the
Dashboards, the controls in the Inspector, the onscreen controls, by adding keyframes,
or by applying parameter behaviors.
Using the Dashboard
Each filter has a subset of parameters that appear in its Dashboard. All of the controls
available for modifying each filter also appear in the Filters tab of the Inspector. Both
the Dashboard and the Filters tab reference the same parameters—changing a
parameter in one automatically changes that parameter in the other. Frequently, the
controls available in a filter’s Dashboard represent the parameters with the exception of
the position parameters. For example, compare the controls for the Fisheye filter in the
Filters tab to those available in the Dashboard:
Most filter parameters have only a single set of numbers that represent their value.
Parameters with a disclosure triangle, however, may have additional numbers that
represent a different way of describing the same value. In the case of the Center
parameter, the numbers indicated in the value sliders are absolute values, but the X
and Y values under the disclosure triangle represent percentages. If the defaults for X
and Y are both 0.5, that represents the center of the image. Changing the percentages
updates the absolute values in the value sliders.
Adjusting Parameters
Each filter has its own distinct set of parameters. These parameters can be adjusted in
one of two places: the Filters tab of the Inspector, or the filter’s Dashboard. As with all
parameters in Motion, the Dashboard contains the most essential parameter controls
for modifying a filter, whereas the Filters tab in the Inspector contains the filter’s entire
list of editable parameters.
Note: Often, the parameters in the Dashboard are equivalent to those in the Inspector.
For more information on accessing the Inspector and Dashboard controls, see “
The
Inspector” on page 98 and “The Dashboard” on page 105.
Filters tab Dashboard
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