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The timing pane – Apple Motion 2 User Manual

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Chapter 1

Getting To Know Motion

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The Timing Pane

At some point in most projects, you will want to view the contents of your composition
represented as a graph over time. This may be to compare when two objects appear or
disappear, or when an effect begins or changes. You may want to add or remove
objects in your project at a particular point in time, to observe or modify how different
parameters of different effects occur. You may also want to view your audio waveforms
to allow visual events to synchronize with your soundtrack.

All of this can be accomplished in the Timing pane, which appears at the bottom of the
Canvas.

To display the Timing pane, do one of the following:

m

Drag the divider bar on the bottom edge of the Canvas.

m

Click the Timing icon in the upper-right corner of the Canvas.

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Press F6.

The Timing pane contains three tabs: Timeline, Keyframe Editor, and Audio Editor. Each
of these allows you to view the elements of your project stretched out over time.

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