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Playing your project – Apple Motion 2 User Manual

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Chapter 1

Getting To Know Motion

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To change the color of the guides:

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Choose Motion > Preferences.

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In the Canvas section, click the Guide Color color well, then select a color.

Playing Your Project

Use the transport controls at the bottom of the Canvas to play your project and see
how it looks over time. You can set playback to loop as well as set playback to begin
and end on certain frames in your project. You can also turn audio on and off.

Play/Pause: Starts and stops playback. The keyboard shortcut is the Space bar.

Loop playback: Controls whether playback loops indefinitely, or whether playback
stops when the end of the play range is reached. The keyboard shortcut is Shift+L.

Play from start: Plays from the play range In point to the play range Out point. This
allows you to watch just a portion of the entire project. To learn how to define the In
and Out points, see “

Defining the Play Range

” on page 308.

Go to start of project: This button automatically returns your playhead to the
beginning of the project. The keyboard shortcut is Home.

Go to end of project: Automatically moves the playhead to the end of the project. The
keyboard shortcut is End.

Go to previous frame: Moves the playhead backward by one frame. Clicking the
button (or holding down the shortcut key) rewinds the project one frame at a time. The
keyboard shortcut is Left Arrow (or Page Up).

Go to next frame: Advances the playhead by one frame. Clicking the button (or
holding down the shortcut key) advances the project one frame at a time. The
keyboard shortcut is Right Arrow (or Page Down).

Play/Mute audio: Turns audio playback on or off.

Note: Turning audio off may improve your playback performance.

Record: Enables or disables animation recording. When recording is enabled, any
action you make, such as moving an object or adjusting a slider, adds keyframes.

Go to start of project

Go to next frame

Go to end of project

Go to previous frame

Play From Start

Loop Playback

Play/Pause

Play/Mute Audio

Record

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