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Apple Motion 3 User Manual

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Chapter 4

Using the Timeline

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When you select an object, the color changes to a darker shade and the name of the
object turns white. When the Timeline is in Filmstrip mode, the filmstrip frames are
highlighted with a white border. See “

Specifying the Track Display

” on page 330 for

more information on how to set different Timeline view modes.

Item

How it appears

Description

Group

A double blue bar. The lower bar
displays three lines and a value
indicating the number of objects in the
group.

Layers
(video, stills, shapes, text,
particles, replicators, shapes)

A blue bar

Masks

A gray bar

Behaviors and Filters

A thin purple bar

Camera

A blue bar

Light

A blue bar

Keyframes

Blue diamonds in a thin bar beneath
the object that is keyframed. Selected
keyframes appear white.

Audio

A green bar displaying the audio
waveform. If the audio file has an
applied Audio behavior, the purple bar
appears underneath the audio track.