Apple Motion 3 - Manual (Page 258)

258 Chapter 3 Basic Compositing
You can use different transform tools, each of which allow you to perform basic
compositing tasks such as selecting, moving, rotating, scaling, shearing, corner-pinning,
cropping, changing an object’s anchor point, and manipulating drop shadows. The
transform tools are available in the View section of the Toolbar. When you switch
among the transform tools, different onscreen controls appear in the Canvas. Drag
these controls to perform the selected transform action.
Additional controls in the HUD let you change each selected object’s opacity, blend
mode, and drop shadow settings.
The onscreen controls and the HUD controls all correspond to parameters that appear
in the Properties tab of the Inspector. Each parameter corresponds to a different Canvas
control, and adjustments made in the Canvas are simultaneously updated in the
Inspector. For example, if you’re using the Select/Transform tool and you change an
object’s scale by dragging its corner handles in the Canvas, the object’s Scale parameter
is updated in the Properties tab of the Inspector.
Drag a corner handle of an object in transform mode to resize it.