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416Motion User Guide
Although you can save animation curves into the Content category of the Library, for ease
of organization it’s recommended that you save items you use frequently in the Favorites
category. For information on naming items saved to the Library, saving multiple items of
different types to the Library, as well as creating and organizing folders in the Library, see
Save custom objects to the Library in Motion.
Use the mini-curve editor in Motion
Mini-curve editors provide a way to animate parameters outside the Keyframe Editor’s
interface using keyframes in a graph. Animations created in a mini-curve editor don’t
appear in the Keyframe Editor.
Two Particle behaviors—Scale Over Life and Spin Over Life—have mini-curve editors in the
Inspector (when the Increment Type parameter is set to Custom). Mini-curve editors are
also present for paint objects, in the Stroke pane of the Shape Inspector.
By default, the mini-curve editor is collapsed and shows a scaled-down representation of
the parameter curve.
Expand a mini-curve editor
• In Motion, click the disclosure triangle next to the collapsed mini-curve editor in the
Inspector.
The expanded mini-curve editor appears.
When expanded, the mini-curve editor shows a representation of the relevant animation
curve. In the example above, the Over Life parameter is mapped to the X axis and the
Custom Spin parameter is mapped to the Y axis.