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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
992 Index
closing 156
creating 139–149
creating from project presets 142
creating from templates 141
custom settings 143
embedding in Final Cut Pro projects 959
exporting 899–912
exporting from Final Cut Pro 958
imported or embedded in Final Cut Pro 956
In and Out points 308
managing 152–156
managing objects in 179, 183
moving 156
opening 154
opening last project automatically 140
opening multiples 156
opening recent 155
playing 45
QuickTime audio track 881
reverting 154
reverting to auto-saved 114
reverting to autosaved 154
saving 152
saving as a template 214
saving duplicates of 153
using in Final Cut Pro 955
Properties tab 103
parameters 241
Q
QuickTime
audio files 878
exporting 901
field dominance and 950
movies 164
movies in particles 606
video codecs 941
website 12
QuickTime files
mixing different types 164
QuickTime Player 64
QuickTime video
archiving 157
R
Radial Blur filter 721
Ramp behavior 362
RAM Preview 46
and float 48
clear preview 48
preview entire project 46
preview play range 47
preview selection 47
Randomize behavior 363
Random Motion behavior 382
Rate behavior 365
example of 396
Reconnecting media 182
Reconnect Media command 64
Record button 45, 402, 405
disabling while playing 450
using 405
Recording options 449
Rectangle Mask tool 30
Rectangles 840
Rectangle tool 29, 840
Reduce Keyframes 78
Refraction filter 747
Regions 309
Relief filter 780
Removable media 163
Remove Preset 119
Rename files and folders 90
Renaming
audio tracks 890
behaviors 331
layers 208
objects 276
Render order
for emitters 597
Render Settings tab 147
Reordering
columns 57
filters 712
Repeat extrapolation 442
Repel behavior 384
Repel From behavior 386
Replace Media File button 188
Replicate icon 31
Replicator behaviors
about 318
Replicator object tab 104
Replicators 621–699
animating parameters 662, 673
animation curves 680
animation examples 674
applying masks to 644
arrangement of 638
blending 641
burst and spiral shape parameters 658
cell parameters 662
cell parameters for movies 672
creating media for 627
customizing in Dashboard 636
Dashboard parameters 636
differences from particles 622
elements in 622
filters and 698
geometry shape parameters 659
Library presets 628
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