Apple Motion 2 - Manual (Page 218)

218 Chapter 3 Basic Compositing
You can use different transform modes, each of which allow you to perform basic
compositing tasks such as moving, rotating, scaling, shearing, corner-pinning, cropping,
changing an object’s anchor point, and editing drop shadows. When you switch among
the transform modes, different handles appear over the selected objects in the Canvas.
Drag these handles to perform the selected transform action.
Additional controls in the Dashboard let you change each selected object’s opacity,
blend mode, and drop shadow settings.
The onscreen controls and the Dashboard 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 in Transform mode 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.
Dragging a corner handle of an object in Transform mode to resize it
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