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Timeline view options – Apple Motion 4 User Manual

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The link icon changes to a broken link.

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Move, trim, or slip the audio or video bar.

The link icon also appears in the Layers tab in the Project pane.

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Timeline View Options

The lower-left corner of the Timeline contains several controls to customize what elements
appear in the Timeline.

Audio tracks are displayed in a separate partition in the Timeline. You can resize the
partitions by dragging the divider for each partition.

Function

Button name

Button

Displays all groups, layers, and objects. Audio
tracks must be displayed for this switch to have
any effect.

Show/Hide Layers

Displays audio tracks. The waveforms appear on
the audio tracks.

Note: When an audio file with an applied Audio
behavior is displayed in the Timeline, the Audio
behavior appears below the audio track that it
modifies.

Show/Hide Audio

Displays keyframes for all tracks. Keyframes appear
as blue diamonds (white when selected).

Show/Hide Keyframes

Displays mask tracks for objects that have masks
applied.

Show/Hide Masks

Displays behavior tracks for objects that have
behaviors applied.

Show/Hide Behaviors

Displays filter tracks for objects that have filters
applied.

Show/Hide Filters

Click one of the “Set timeline row size” buttons to
select a track size. To manually resize tracks,
position the pointer over a row separator line and
drag up or down.

Set Timeline Row Size

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Chapter 8

Using the Timeline