Apple Motion 3 New Features - Manual (Page 3)

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Paint
Motion allows you to design painterly elements using customizable brushes and
vector-based strokes that weave through 3D space. You can create animated brush
strokes that respond to pressure, tilt, and speed when using a graphics tablet. You can
also design custom brushes using color, gradients, text, images, and QuickTime movies.
There are two new paint features in Motion:
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Paint Strokes: A shape that is created by “painting” a stroke in the Canvas using the
Paint Stroke tool in the Toolbar, or by modifying the outline of an existing shape. The
Paint Stroke tool allows you to use a stylus and graphics tablet (or a mouse) to create
a paint stroke, rather than drawing the shape in a point-by-point fashion (like a
Bezier or B-Spline shape). In addition to sharing other shape outline parameters,
paint strokes have a unique tool set that allows you to change the look of the
paintbrush and to create particle-type effects with the stroke. Use the Write On
feature to record a stroke so that it draws across the Canvas over time.
 Sequence Paint: A new behavior called Sequence Paint allows you to animate the
dabs of a paint stroke in sequence over time. Using the Sequence Paint behavior, you
can customize a paint stroke to fade in, fade out, rotate, shrink, or grow over time.
Final Cut Pro Integration
Motion now offers tighter integration with Final Cut Pro 6. Send timelines from
Final Cut Pro to Motion and retain more project detail than ever before. Send Timeline
information such as cuts, layers, and basic motion parameters. Send SmoothCam clips
from Final Cut Pro to Motion without having to reanalyze the clip. You can also send
retiming data from Final Cut Pro to Motion for further modification.
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You can add motion graphics created in Motion directly to your Final Cut Pro
sequence, without rendering.
 You can immediately see changes to a Motion project in your Final Cut Pro sequence.
 You can create new Motion projects based on a selection of clips or a sequence in
Final Cut Pro. You can use this feature to sketch a motion graphics sequence in
Final Cut Pro and then refine it in Motion. The new Motion project can then be
embedded in your Final Cut Pro sequence.