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You can use the font categories to preview the fonts that are available on your
computer. You can also drag fonts and LiveFonts onto text objects to change the
typeface they use. For more information about using fonts with text objects, see “
Using
the Library Font Browser ” on page 464.
Text Styles
Text styles are presets that can be applied to text objects in your project to instantly
change their style parameters. These style parameters include face, outline, glow, and
drop shadow parameters. Dragging a text style onto a text object instantly applies that
style to the text.
For more information on text styles, see “ Editing Text Style ” on page 478.
Music and Photos
These categories allow you to browse for and import audio files directly from your
iTunes library and image files directly from your iPhoto library. The Music subcategories
that appear in the Motion Library are playlists created in iTunes. The Photos
subcategories are albums created in iPhoto. The contents of each library, album, or
playlist appear in the file stack.
For more information on importing iPhoto or iTunes files, see “ Adding iTunes and
iPhoto Files From the Library ” on page 178.
Content
Motion ships with a collection of pre-made graphics and Motion-generated objects
that appear in the Content category. These objects are used in the particle emitter
presets and templates that are included with Motion. Most of the subcategories in this
section are collections of objects used to make the templates included with Motion.
The one exception is the Particle Images subcategory, which comprises particle cell
sources used to generate the particle emitter presets included with Motion.
By default, the content files that ship with Motion are stored in the Users/Shared/
Motion/Library/Content folder when you install Motion. During installation, you can
select an alternate location to install the Motion content. Custom Motion-generated
objects that you place into the Library are saved in the Home/Library/Application
Support/Motion/Library/Content
folder.
Note: Dragging a media object into the Content category leaves its corresponding file
on disk in its original location. For this reason, it’s recommended you centralize all
media you plan on importing into the Library for future use into a dedicated and
predictable location on disk, to prevent accidentally moving, renaming, or deleting
those files.
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