Apple Motion 2 - Manual (Page 276)

276 Chapter 4 Using the Timeline
Timeline Layer List
The Timeline Layer list mirrors the Layers list in the Project pane and displays your
project tracks and objects and their stacking order. Behaviors, filters, and masks applied
to a layer or object can also be displayed. In the Timeline Layer list, you can reorder
layers and objects. This change is immediately reflected in the Layers list in the Project
pane. You can also lock tracks to prevent further editing on those tracks and disable
entire tracks to omit them from view in the Canvas.
Object Names
You can rename any object in Motion. This can be helpful if you are using more than
one version of an asset, or if you want to categorize things into named layers. Also,
masks, shapes, generators, and other content you generate within Motion are created
with generic names. Renaming them allows you to better manage and keep track of
them while you work.
To rename an object:
1 Double-click the name of the object.
2 Type a new name in the editable text field.
3 Press Return or Tab.
Although Motion allows you to rename objects you import from your disk, changing
the object’s name in the Timeline Layer list does not modify the name of the file on
disk. This allows you to use one source clip multiple times and name each instance
uniquely inside Motion.
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