Apple Motion 5.1.1 User Manual

Motion user guide

Table of contents

Document Outline

Contents
Chapter 1:  Motion basics
- What is Motion?
- About Motion projects
- About input devices
Chapter 2:  Introduction to the Motion interface
- Motion interface overview
- Project Browser
- Workspace
- File Browser
- Library
- Inspector
- HUD
- Toolbar
- Canvas
- Project pane
- Timing pane
- View the Canvas or Timing pane on a second display
- Use full-screen view
Chapter 3:  Motion menus
- Motion menus overview
- Application menu
- File menu
- Edit menu
- Mark menu
- Object menu
- Favorites menu
- View menu
- Share menu
- Window menu
- Help menu
Chapter 4:  Preferences
- Motion Preferences overview
- General pane
- Appearance pane
- Project pane
- Time pane
- Cache pane
- Canvas pane
- 3D pane
- Presets pane
  - Presets pane overview
  - Project Preset Editor
- Gestures pane
Chapter 5:  User interface controls
- User interface controls overview
- Toolbar controls
- Slider controls
  - Basic slider
  - Value slider
- Coordinate controls
- Dial
- Value field
- Activation checkbox
- Menus
  - Pop-up menu
  - Parameter selection menu
- Source well
- Color controls
- Gradient controls
- Generic Inspector controls
- Rasterization indicator
- Text field shortcut menu
Chapter 6:  Create and manage projects
- Create and manage projects overview
- Create projects
- Organize groups and layers
- Add media to a project
- Manage media
- Work with the Library
- Manage projects
- Customize and create templates
- Control project playback
Chapter 7:  Basic compositing
- Basic compositing overview
- Group and layer order
- Arrange objects
  - Arrangement commands in the Object Menu
  - Reorder nonconsecutive selections
- Transform layers
- Move layers in the Canvas
- Layer properties in the Inspector
  - Adjust layer Properties in the Inspector
  - Parameters in the Properties Inspector
- Make clone layers
- Opacity and Blending parameters
- Drop shadows
- Retiming
- Expose commands
Chapter 8:  Timeline
- Timeline overview
- Manage Timeline layers
- Add objects to the Timeline
- Edit objects in the Timeline
- Display and modify keyframes in the Timeline
- Work in the ruler
- Markers
- Mini-Timeline
  - Mini-Timeline overview
  - Edit in the mini-Timeline
Chapter 9:  Behaviors
- Behaviors overview
- Behaviors versus keyframes
- Browse for behaviors
- Where applied behaviors appear
- Use behaviors
- Modify behaviors
  - Modify behaviors in the Inspector or the HUD
- Work with behaviors
  - Behavior controls in the Layers list and Timeline
  - Copy, paste, move, and reorder behaviors
- Behavior order of operations
- Modify behavior timing
- Combine behaviors with keyframes
  - Combine behaviors with keyframes overview
  - Behaviors and keyframes in the Keyframe Editor
- Animate behavior parameters
  - Keyframe behaviors
  - Convert behaviors to keyframes
- Save and share custom behaviors
- Basic Motion behaviors
- Parameter behaviors
- Retiming behaviors
- Simulation behaviors
- Additional behaviors
Chapter 10:  Rigs and widgets
- Rigs and widgets overview
- How rigging works
- Add a rig to a project
- Add and modify widgets
- Widget types
- Manage parameter snapshots
- Control rigs from parameter Animation menus
- About widget animation
- Use rigs in Motion
  - Use a single rig
  - Use multiple rigs
- Publish rigs
Chapter 11:  Final Cut Pro X templates
- Final Cut Pro X templates overview
- Template types
- How templates work
- Create and edit an effect
- Create and edit a title
- Create and edit a transition
- Create and edit a generator
- Use images in template placeholders
- Publishing parameters in templates
- Animation and timing in templates
- Template markers
- Template resolution
- Using masks in templates
- Template files and media save location
- Add multiple display aspect ratios to a template
- Tips for creating templates
Chapter 12:  Keyframing
- Keyframing overview
- Keyframing methods
- Animate in the Canvas
- Animate via the Inspector
- Use keyframes to modify behaviors
  - Apply keyframes to behaviors
  - About combining keyframes and behaviors
- Keyframes in the Timeline
- Keyframe Editor
- Mini-curve editor
- Animate on the fly
- Keyframe thinning
Chapter 13:  Keying
- Keying overview
- Keyer filter
- Luma Keyer filter
  - Luma Keyer filter overview
  - Luma Keyer filter controls
- Keying refinement filters
  - Matte Magic
  - Spill Suppression
- Use masks to aid keying effects
Chapter 14:  Particles
- Particles overview
- Anatomy of a particle system
- Particle systems and layer sizes
- Create particle systems
  - Add particle systems to a project
  - Multiple cells in a single emitter
- Adjust a particle emitter in the HUD
  - Adjust the Emitter HUD
  - Emitter HUD controls
- Adjust a particle emitter and its cells in the Inspector
- Adjust a particle emitter in the Properties Inspector
- Particle Emitter Timing controls
- Create graphics for particle systems
  - Create still-image graphics to use as particle cells
  - Create animations to use as particle cells
- Animate objects in particle systems
- Use masks with particle systems
- Apply filters to particle systems
- Particle system examples
  - Example 1: Create an animated background
  - Example 2: Create animated pixie dust
- Save custom particle effects to the Library
Chapter 15:  Replicator
- Replicator overview
- Anatomy of a replicator
- About replicator cell source layers
- Create a replicator
  - Add a replicator to a project
  - Modify a replicator
- Adjust a replicator and cells in the HUD
- Adjust a replicator and cells in the Inspector
- Adjust a replicator in the Properties Inspector
- Replicator Timing controls
- Use replicator onscreen controls
- Use image and geometry objects
- Animate replicators
- Use replicators in 3D space
- Use masks with replicators
- Apply filters to replicators
- Save custom replicators to the Library
Chapter 16:  Text
- Text overview
- Set preferences for text
- Create text
- Use text files created externally
- Ways to edit text
- Text tools in the toolbar
- About fonts
- Text HUD
  - 2D and 3D Text HUDs
  - Text controls in the HUD
- Text Inspector
  - Edit text in the Inspector
- Edit text format
- Edit text style
- Edit text layout
- Text glyphs
- Find and replace text
  - How to find and replace text
  - Find and Replace window options
- Apply filters to text
Chapter 17:  Animated text
- Animated text overview
- Text animation behaviors
  - Types of text behaviors
  - Apply a Text behavior
- Sequence Text behavior
- Scroll Text behavior
  - Use the Scroll Text behavior
  - Scroll Text controls
- Text Tracking behavior
  - Use the Text Tracking behavior
  - Text Tracking controls
- Type On behavior
  - Use the Type On behavior
  - Type On controls
- Preset Text Sequence behaviors
- Save a modified text behavior to the Library
- Use behaviors to animate text in 3D
- Animate text with keyframes
- Animate with the Transform Glyph tool
- Add nontext behaviors to text
Chapter 18:  Generators
- Generators overview
- Add a generator
- Modify a generator
- Parameters common to all generators
- Image generators
- Text generators
Chapter 19:  Filters
- Filters overview
- Browse and preview filters
- Apply and remove filters
- Filter performance considerations
- Filters and cropping
- Adjust filters
  - Adjust filters overview
  - Enable, rename, and lock filters
  - Copy, paste, move, and duplicate filters
  - Reorder filters
  - Change filter timing
  - Adjust filter onscreen controls
  - Types of onscreen controls
- Animate filter parameters
- Apply behaviors to filter parameters
- Publish filter parameters and onscreen controls
- Manipulate alpha channels using filters
- Blur filters
  - Blur filters overview
  - Channel Blur
  - Circle Blur
  - Compound Blur
  - Defocus
  - Directional Blur
  - Gaussian Blur
  - Gradient Blur
  - Prism
  - Radial Blur
  - Soft Focus
  - Variable Blur
  - Zoom Blur
- Border filters
  - Border filters overview
  - Bevel
  - Simple Border
  - Widescreen
- Color Correction filters
  - Color Correction filters overview
  - Brightness
  - Channel Mixer
  - Color Balance
  - Use the Color Balance filter to match two composited layers
  - Color Reduce
  - Colorize
  - Contrast
  - Gamma
  - Gradient Colorize
  - Hue/Saturation
  - Levels
  - Negative
  - OpenEXR Tone Map
  - Sepia
  - Threshold
  - Tint
  - YIQ Adjust
  - YUV Adjust
- Distortion filters
  - Distortion filters overview
  - Black Hole
  - Bulge
  - Bump Map
  - Disc Warp
  - Droplet
  - Earthquake
  - Fisheye
  - Flop
  - Fun House
  - Glass Block
  - Glass Distortion
  - Insect Eye
  - Mirror
  - Page Curl
  - Poke
  - Polar
  - Refraction
  - Ring Lens
  - Ripple
  - Scrape
  - Sphere
  - Starburst
  - Stripes
  - Target
  - Twirl
  - Underwater
  - Wave
- Glow filters
  - Glow filters overview
  - Aura
  - Bloom
  - Dazzle
  - Gloom
  - Glow
  - Light Rays
  - Outer Glow
  - Overdrive
- Sharpen filters
  - Sharpen filters overview
  - Sharpen
  - Unsharp Mask
- Stylize filters
  - Stylize filters overview
  - Add Noise
  - Bad Film
  - Bad TV
  - Circle Screen
  - Circles
  - Color Emboss
  - Crystallize
  - Edges
  - Extrude
  - Halftone
  - Hatched Screen
  - Highpass
  - Indent
  - Line Art
  - Line Screen
  - MinMax
  - Noise Dissolve
  - Pixellate
  - Posterize
  - Relief
  - Slit Scan
  - Slit Tunnel
  - Texture Screen
  - Vignette
  - Wavy Screen
- Tiling filters
  - Tiling filters overview
  - Kaleidoscope
  - Kaleidotile
  - Offset
  - Parallelogram Tile
  - Perspective Tile
  - Random Tile
  - Tile
  - Triangle Tile
- Time filters
  - Time filters overview
  - Echo
  - Scrub
  - Strobe
  - Trails
  - WideTime
- Video filters
  - Video filters overview
  - Broadcast Safe
  - Deinterlace
Chapter 20:  Shapes, masks, and paint strokes
- Shapes, masks, and paint strokes overview
- Draw simple shapes
- Add shapes from the Library
- Draw complex spline shapes and masks
- Edit shape fill, outline, and feathering
- Draw paint strokes
- Edit control points
- Shape parameters
- Edit shapes as layers
- Shape behaviors
- Keyframe the Shape Animation parameter
- Save shapes and shape styles
- Copy styles between shapes
- Masks and transparency
- Convert between shapes and masks
Chapter 21:  3D compositing
- 3D compositing overview
- 3D Transform tool
- Relative coordinates
- Layer order and depth order
- 3D workspace and views
- 2D and 3D group intersection
- Cameras
- Lighting
- Shadows
- Reflections
Chapter 22:  Motion tracking
- Motion tracking overview
- How a tracker works
- Tracking behaviors
- Tracking workflows
- Adjust onscreen trackers
- Strategies for better tracking
- Track groups
- Save tracks
- Tracking behavior controls
Chapter 23:  Audio
- Audio overview
- Import audio files
- Edit audio tracks
- Retime audio
- Use markers with audio
- Audio behaviors
Chapter 24:  Share Motion projects
- Share Motion projects overview
- Share to Apple devices
- Share to iMovie, GarageBand, and other Apple applications
- Create a DVD, Blu-ray disc, AVCHD disc, or disk image
- Share to email
- Publish to video-sharing sites
- Export a QuickTime movie
- Export audio only
- Export an image sequence
- Export a still image
- Export for HTTP Live Streaming
- Export using Compressor
- Render settings
- Background rendering
- About Share Monitor
Chapter 25:  About rasterization
- Groups and rasterization
- Examples of rasterization
- Text and rasterization
- Shapes and rasterization
- Particles, replicators, and rasterization
- Filters and rasterization
- Shadows and rasterization
Chapter 26:  Video and file formats
- Video and file formats overview
- Popular video codecs for file exchange
- Field order
- Pixel aspect ratio
  - Square versus nonsquare pixels
  - Standard-definition (SD) video displays
- Differences in color between computer graphics and video
- Fonts and line art
- High-resolution graphics
Chapter 27:  Gestures
- Gestures overview
- Configure gesture setup
- Use gestures
Chapter 28:  Keyboard shortcuts
- Keyboard shortcuts overview
- Enable function keys on portable Macintosh computers
- General interface commands
- Menu commands
- Audio list
- Tools
  - Tools overview
  - Global transform commands
  - Select/Transform tool
  - Crop tool
  - Edit Points tool
  - Pan and Zoom tools
  - Rectangle and Circle tools
  - Bezier tool
  - B-Spline tool
  - Paint Stroke tool
  - Text tool
  - Rectangle Mask and Circle Mask tools
  - Bezier Mask tool
  - B-Spline Mask tool
- Transport controls
- View options
- Miscellaneous
- HUD
- File Browser
- Inspector
- Keyframe Editor
- Layers
- Library
- Media list
- Timeline editing and navigating
- Keyframing commands
- Shape and Mask commands
- Toolbar
- 3D commands
- Use the Command Editor
  - Use the Command Editor overview
  - Command Editor interface
  - Identify a specific shortcut
  - Customize keyboard shortcuts
  - Import and export command sets