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Opening the starting project – Apple Motion 2 Tutorials User Manual

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Tutorial 1

The Motion Interface

It also incorporates several types of effects. Behaviors are used to move the colored
bars and control the opacity of different objects, while filters are used to colorize the
boxes, and keyframes are used to animate the graphics.

5

Choose File > Close (or press

Command+W

) to close the project.

Important:

If you made any changes to the project, Motion prompts you to save. Click

Don’t Save.

Opening the Starting Project

Open and preview the starting project for this tutorial. This project is identical to the

Tutorial 1 Result

project, except that it does not include the animated boxes or logo.

This tutorial instructs you to add those graphic elements later in the steps.

To preview the starting project:

1

Choose File > Open (or press

Command+O

).

2

In the Open dialog, navigate to the

Tutorial Projects

folder (default is

/Users/Shared/

Motion/Tutorial Media/Tutorial Projects

).

3

Select

Tutorial 1 Start,

then click Open.

The 150-frame

Tutorial 1 Start

project appears.

4

Click the Play button (or press the

Space bar

).