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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
710 Chapter 10 Using Filters
Enabling, Renaming, and Locking Filters
While the Filters tab in the Inspector contains all of the editable parameters for any
filter that has been applied to an object, the Layers tab and Timeline have three
primary controls for each filter that appears.
The following filter controls appear in the Layers tab and Timeline:
Activation checkbox: Turns each individual filter on or off. Filters that are turned off
are not rendered.
Name: The name of each filter can be customized by double-clicking the name and
typing a new one.
Lock: Click the lock icon to toggle the locked state on and off for the filter.
Copying, Pasting, and Moving Filters
Filters can be easily copied, pasted, and moved like any other object in Motion. There
are a number of ways you can move and copy filters among the other objects in the
Timeline or Project pane. They can be pasted over other filters, and moved across
projects. When you cut or copy a filter in the Timeline or Project pane, you also copy
the current state of all that filter’s parameters.
To cut or copy a filter:
1 Select the filter in the Layers tab or Timeline.
2 Do one of the following:
• To remove a filter, choose Edit > Cut (or press Command+X).
• To copy the filter, choose Edit > Copy (or press Command+C).
To paste a filter:
1 Select the object to which you want to apply the filter.
2 Choose Edit > Paste (or press Command+V).
The filter is applied with all its parameter settings intact.
Lock icon
Name
Activation checkbox
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