Apple Motion 3 User Manual
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Chapter 1
Getting to Know Motion
 Image: Appears when an image, image sequence, or movie is selected. This tab
contains the Drop Zone checkbox, the state of which determines whether the image
selected is a drop zone target. The Fit parameter determines how a dropped layer is
sized within the drop zone, and the Clear button removes the reference layer from
the drop zone. For more information, see “
 Group: Appears when a group is the selected object. The tab contains the Type
parameter, which allows you to toggle a group between 2D and 3D. A 2D group has
different available parameters than a 3D group.
When set to 3D, the Flatten and Layer Order parameters become available. When the
Flatten checkbox is turned on, all of the elements in the 3D group are flattened like a
“card” or “billboard.” When the Layer Order checkbox is turned on, the project
elements are sorted by their order in the Layers list rather than their order in Z space.
For more information,
Motion Supplemental
Documentation PDF.
When set to 2D, the Fixed Resolution parameters become available, which allow you
to manually define the size of a group. By default, Fixed Resolution is disabled and
the size of the group is determined by the layers within that group. For more
information, see “
Note: When turned on, Fixed Resolution crops the group to the size specified in the
Fixed Width and Fixed Height parameters around the anchor point of the group.
 Camera: Appears when a camera is selected and contains controls specific to a
scene camera, including the type of camera, its angle of view, and plane and fade
parameters. For more information on working with cameras,
the Motion Supplemental Documentation PDF.
Note: A scene camera is a camera that is added to a project, as opposed to a default
camera view that you choose in the upper-left corner of the Canvas, such as Top,
Right, or Perspective.
 Light: Appears when a light is selected and contains controls that allow you to
change the light type, color, intensity, and so on.
 Media: Appears when an item is selected in the Media tab. These parameters deal
mostly with attributes of the file on disk or how the file is interpreted by Motion.
Because multiple project objects can reference a single media file, the tab contains a
list of linked objects including the name of the group where they exist. Making
changes in this tab affects all objects that refer to the selected media file. For more
information on working with media parameters, see “
 Text: Appears when a text layer is selected and contains all of the controls that affect
the text. It is divided into three panes: Format, Style, and Layout.