Apple Motion 2 Tutorials - Manual (Page 105)

Tutorial 2 Basic Motion Behaviors 105
Adding and Animating Graphic Elements
In this section, you add a new layer to house more graphics elements. Drag the
bigCircle.psd file you imported earlier (into the Media tab) to the Canvas to add it to the
new layer of the project. Modify the object and apply a Spin behavior. Next, you import
a layered Photoshop file and apply a Simulation behavior to the layer (created by
importing the layered file).
To create a new layer:
1 In the Layers tab, click the Add New Layer button.
2 Name the new layer “graphics.”
To drag an object into the new layer from the Media tab:
1 Click the Media tab.
The Media tab contains the dolphin clip and graphic that you imported earlier. Notice
that the text title objects and shapes do not appear in the Media tab. This is because
objects created within Motion do not appear in the Media tab. Only imported still
images, image sequences, movies, and audio files appear in the Media tab.
2 Drag the bigCircle.psd object to the Canvas. Use the following image as a guide for
placement of the object.