Apple Motion 3 User Manual
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Chapter 1
Getting to Know Motion
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With the Media tab active, choose File > Import (or press Command-I). In the Import
Files dialog, navigate to the file you want to add to your project, select the file, then
click Import.
The file is added to the Media tab.
Important:
Files added directly to the Media tab are not added to the Canvas. To add a
file to the Canvas, drag the file from the Media tab to the Canvas.
To remove a file from the Media tab, do one of the following:
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Select the file you want to remove and click the Delete button (–) in the upper-left
corner of the tab.
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Control-click the file, then choose Delete from the shortcut menu.
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Select the file you want to remove, then choose Edit > Delete (or press Delete).
The media is removed. If the media is used in the Canvas, an alert appears asking you
to confirm that you want to remove the files.
Filtering the Media Tab
As your project becomes more complex, you may want to temporarily hide certain files
from view. This allows you to focus on one or more files without the distraction of all
the other files in your list. You can perform this sort of filtering by using the Search field
in the upper-right corner of the tab. For instructions on how to filter the Media tab, see
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Filtering the Layers List View
Additional Options in the Media Tab
Quite a few additional features are available in the Media tab, which you can find in the
shortcut menu that appears when you Control-click files in the list. The actions in this
menu apply to the selected file or files.
Open in Viewer: Opens the selected item in the viewer window. This is equivalent to
double-clicking a file in the File Browser.
Open in QuickTime Player: Opens the selected item in the QuickTime Player
application.
Reveal in Finder: Switches out of Motion, and opens a Finder window where the
Media file resides on disk.
Reconnect Media: Opens the Reconnect Media dialog where you can assign a new
source file on disk to correspond to the Media file in Motion.
Cut: Removes the file and places it on the Clipboard.
Copy: Copies the file to the Clipboard.
Paste: Places the contents of the Clipboard in the current location.
Duplicate: Creates a new file identical to the selected file.