Apple Motion 2 - Manual (Page 60)

60 Chapter 1 Getting To Know Motion
To display filters in the Layers tab:
m Click the Show Filters button.
Click the button again to hide the filters.
Turning Effects On and Off
When certain effects are applied to an object, icons appear in the Name column for
that item. This lets you know that such an effect is applied, especially if you have the
effect objects hidden. There are icons for masks, filters, and behaviors. Additionally,
these icons let you toggle the effects on and off in the Canvas.
Note: You can also Control-click the icons in the Layers tab or Timeline Layer list to
display a list of the applied effects.
To turn masks off for an object:
m Click the Masks icon for the object you want to change.
A red slash appears over the icon and the effect is temporarily turned off.
To turn behaviors off for an object:
m Click the Behaviors icon for the object you want to change.
A red slash appears over the icon and the effect is temporarily turned off.
To turn filters off for an object:
m Click the Filters icon for the object you want to change.
A red slash appears over the icon and the effect is temporarily turned off.
For each of these controls, clicking the icon again turns the effect back on.
Additional Options
Quite a few additional features are available in the Layers tab, which you can find in the
shortcut menu that appears when you Control-click objects in the list. These
operations apply to the selected object or objects.
Cut: Removes the object and places it on the Clipboard.
Filter disabled
Masks
Behaviors
Filters
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