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Apple Motion 2 User Manual

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Chapter 1

Getting To Know Motion

When you want to watch your project play back, the transport controls at the bottom
of the window allow you to play at regular speed or frame by frame. The mini-Timeline
lies just above the transport controls and below the main body of the window. This
control provides a view of where selected objects in the Canvas begin and end in time.

The Canvas also contains two additional panes that are hidden in the default view.

The Project Pane

The Project pane contains three tabs, each of which provides access to different aspects
of your project. The Layers tab displays the hierarchy of layers and objects in your
project. The Media tab shows all the files imported into your project whether or not
they appear in the Canvas. The Audio tab provides access to, and control of, any audio
objects in your project. All of these tabs are covered in more detail later in the chapter.

Mini-Timeline

Transport controls

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