The utility window – Apple Motion 2 User Manual
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Markers can be added to your project to identify an important frame or range of
frames. For more information on creating and using markers, see “
Note: The playhead in the Audio Editor is not the same as the playhead in the Timeline
and the Canvas. The Audio Editor playhead shows the position within the selected
object rather than the position within the entire project.
Zooming in the Audio Editor
You may want to zoom in or out in the Audio Editor just as you do with the Timeline or
Keyframe Editor.
The bottom of the Audio Editor contains a Zoom slider and a Zoom/Scroll control.
To zoom the Audio Editor using the Zoom slider:
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Click the thumb of the Zoom slider and drag left to zoom in and right to zoom out. The
Audio Editor updates as you drag.
To zoom the Audio Editor using the Zoom/Scroll control:
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Click the edge of the scroll bar thumb and drag it away from the center to zoom out
and toward the center to zoom in.
The Audio Editor updates as you drag.
Audio Scrubbing
You can choose whether or not you want to hear the audio play when you drag the
playhead through the ruler in the Audio Editor. This is called audio scrubbing. To turn
audio scrubbing on or off, click the control in the lower-left corner of the Audio Editor.
The Utility Window
The Utility window is where you locate and organize the media, effects, and
parameters that go along with your project. This includes sorting through the media on
your disk, browsing all of the effects, presets, templates, and other content that is
created within the application, and viewing and manipulating all of the parameters
that control how your objects and effects behave.
The Utility Window has three tabs: The File Browser, the Library, and the Inspector. In
the default window layout, all three of these tabs reside in a Utility window on the left
side of the Canvas. If you choose the Cinema layout, two Utility windows are displayed,
one to the left of the Canvas, containing the File Browser and Library, and one on the
right side of the Canvas, containing the Inspector.
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