Improving performance with filters – Apple Motion 2 User Manual
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Chapter 10
Using Filters
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Where Filters Appear
Once you apply a filter, it appears underneath the object to which it is applied in the
Layers tab and the Timeline.
The filters also appear in the order in which they are applied in the Filters tab of the
Inspector.
When a filter is applied to an object, it is applied with the filter’s default settings. For
example, when you apply the Bevel border filter to an object, that object appears with
a border with the angle of the light hitting the bevel set to 0 degrees, the width of the
bevel set to 0.2, its opacity set to 0.8, and the color of the bevel’s light set to white. See
“
” on page 723 for more details.
Improving Performance With Filters
When applying filters to several different objects in Motion, it is recommended to
apply the filters to the objects’ parent layer. Also, when applying filters to very large
layers (such as a layer containing a growing particle system), it is recommended to
turn on the Fixed Resolution parameter in the Layer tab of the Inspector. When Fixed
Resolution is turned on, objects that are in the layer but are outside of the Canvas are
cropped to the size of the layer defined in the parameter. The Layer tab is only
available when a layer is the selected object. For more information, “
Note: When enabled, the Fixed Resolution parameter crops the layer to the size
specified in the Fixed Width and Fixed Height parameters around the anchor point of
the layer.
Layers tab
Timeline tab
Filters tab
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