Apple Motion 3 - Manual (Page 232)

232 Chapter 2 Creating and Managing Projects
Adding Your Own Content to the Library
You can add your own customized versions of generators, filters, behaviors, and
gradients to categories in the Library. Furthermore, if you work on one or more
programs that frequently recycle the same graphics elements, or if you have a library of
graphics that you use regularly, you can add these media files to the Favorites category.
It is recommended that you add custom content to the Favorites category. Content you
put into the Library is available to every project in Motion.
To add Motion-generated objects to a Content category:
m Drag an object to the Favorites folder in the Library Category list or subcategory list, or
directly into the Library stack.
Important: Each category except the Content, Favorites, and Favorites Menu is filtered
by the type of object it represents. For example, you can place a user-customized filter
in the Filters category, but you cannot put a filter into the Behaviors category.
You can also place media from disk into the Content, Favorites, or Favorites Menu
categories.
To add a media object to the Favorites category:
m Drag a media object from the Layers tab or Media tab, or from the File Browser, into the
Favorites folder in the Library.
When adding your own content, you can create additional folders to add subcategories
that appear in the subcategory column.
To create a new subcategory within any category:
1 Open the Library and select a category.
2 Click the New Folder button (+) at the bottom of the Library.
Using Custom Objects from the Library
When you drag a custom object from the Library to the Canvas, the center of the
object is dropped at the location in which you release the mouse button. If you use
the Apply button in the Preview area to add the object, the object is added at the
center of the Canvas.
When you drag objects to the Canvas that were saved with the “All in one file” drop
menu option, the objects are dropped at the location in which you release the mouse
button and are positioned according to their arrangement when originally saved to
the Library. If you use the Apply button in the Preview area to add the object, the
objects are added at the center of the Canvas.
Note: When you drag a custom mask from the Library into a project, the mask retains
the position with which it was saved (relative to the image or footage on which it is
dropped).