Apple Motion 4 - Manual (Page 183)

Drop Menu Delay: This setting determines how long you must wait before the drop
menu appears when dragging to the Timeline, mini-Timeline, Layers tab, or Canvas. The
drop menu provides additional choices for editing and importing objects into the project.
Show Tooltips: This checkbox turns tooltips on and off across the application. Tooltips
provide explanatory information such as names and basic usage techniques. They appear
when you pause the pointer over tools and controls.
File Browser & Library
These settings in the General Preferences pane affect how the utility window displays
the contents of the File Browser and Library.
Display Folders: This setting lets you choose between listing folders alphabetically within
the list or grouped together at the end of the list after all nonfolder items.
Show preview icons: This checkbox turns preview icons on and off in the utility window.
For example, when the checkbox is selected, the first frame of a QuickTime movie is
displayed. When it is deselected, the Finder QuickTime icon is displayed.
Preview icons Generic icons
Note: The screen shots in the Motion User Manual were taken with the “Show preview
icons” checkbox deselected in Motion Preferences.
Play items automatically on a single click: This checkbox controls whether the Preview
area automatically plays the contents of the item selected in the file stack.
Content Library & Templates
Use this control to change the location of your Motion content folder. This also allows
multiple users on a network to share a single, centralized folder.
To set the Motion content path
1 Click Choose (next to Library Path).
2 In the dialog that appears, navigate to the content’s location, then click Choose.
3 Restart Motion.
To reset the Motion content path to its default location
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Click Reset (next to the Choose button).
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