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Table of Contents

  • Welcome
    • What’s new in Motion 5.5
    • What’s new in 5.4.6
    • What’s new in 5.4.4
    • What is Motion?
    • Motion workflow
    • Motion interface
    • Basic components of Motion
    • Using input devices
    • Intro to creating projects
    • Create a new project
    • Open an existing project
    • Search for projects from the Finder
    • Bypass the Project Browser
    • Create and modify project presets
    • Save, autosave, and revert projects
      • Intro to using templates
      • Create projects from templates
      • Create stickers for Messages
        • Intro to drop zones
        • Create drop zones
        • Modify drop zone images
        • Drop zone controls
        • Control and expose drop zones
      • Template guidelines
      • Organize templates in the Project Browser
      • Intro to project properties
      • Edit project properties
      • Properties Inspector controls
      • Project frame size
    • Intro to adding and managing content
      • If it’s your first import
      • Import media
      • Import layered Photoshop files
        • Supported media formats
        • High-resolution still image files
        • Set the import size of large images
        • Image sequences
        • Animated GIFs
        • PDF files
        • Alpha channels
        • Audio files
        • Text files
      • Show the Library
      • Categories of Library content
      • Add Library content to a project
      • Add music and photo files
      • Sort and search in the Library
      • Manage Library folders and files
      • When Library media is unavailable
      • Work with Library themes
      • Save custom objects to the Library
      • Intro to source media
        • Media list
        • Show, sort, and search the Media list
      • Reveal source media
        • Display the Media Inspector
        • Source media controls
      • Duplicating and deleting media files
      • Exchange media in a project
        • Reconnect offline media files
        • Networked devices and removable media
    • Intro to project playback
      • Play back a project
      • Optimize playback using RAM preview
      • Use full-screen player mode
      • Use a second display
      • Intro to the timing display
      • View project timing information
      • Move the playhead
      • Change project duration
    • Define the play range
    • Project playback performance
    • Intro to basic compositing
      • Intro to the Layers list
      • Select layers and groups
      • Show and hide the Layers list
      • Expose layers in the canvas
      • Add and remove layers and groups
      • Reorganize layers and groups
      • Show, hide, solo, or lock layers
        • Intro to nesting layers and groups
        • Collapse and expand groups
        • Group, ungroup, and nest layers
        • Constrain group size
      • Layers list controls
      • Layers list shortcut menu
      • Customize the Layers list
      • Intro to transforming layers
        • Intro to transforming layers in the canvas
        • Transform layer properties in the canvas
        • Transform tools
        • Change layer position, scale, or rotation
        • Move a layer’s anchor point
        • Add a drop shadow to a layer
        • Distort or shear a layer
        • Crop a layer
        • Modify shape or mask points
        • Transform text glyphs and other object attributes
        • Align layers in the canvas
        • Transform layers in the Properties Inspector
        • Properties Inspector controls
      • Transform layers in the HUD
      • Transform 2D layers in 3D space
      • Modify layer opacity
        • Intro to layer blending
        • Change a layer’s blend mode
        • How do blend modes work?
        • How do blend modes affect groups?
        • Types of blend modes
        • Alpha channel blend modes
      • Zoom or pan the canvas
      • View dynamic canvas feedback
      • Custom canvas view options
      • Advanced Quality settings
      • Use rulers and guides
    • Intro to 3D compositing
      • Intro to 3D coordinates
      • Relative coordinates
    • Transform layers in 3D space
      • Create 3D intersection
      • 2D and 3D group properties
      • Intro to 3D cameras
      • Add a camera
      • Cameras and views
        • View 3D overlays
        • Camera pop-up menu
        • Use 3D view tools
        • Use the 3D compass
        • Set a 3D inset view
        • Display a 3D grid
        • Display 3D scene icons
      • 3D viewport layouts
      • Work with multiple cameras
      • Scale, position, and animate cameras
      • Isolate an object in the canvas
      • Camera controls
        • Intro to depth of field
        • Turn depth of field on or off
        • Depth of Field controls
        • Add Camera behaviors
        • Dolly behavior
        • Focus behavior
        • Framing behavior
        • Use Framing behavior onscreen controls
        • Sweep behavior
        • Zoom In/Out behavior
        • Zoom Layer behavior
      • Intro to 3D lighting
      • Add lights
      • 3D Light controls
      • Additional lighting controls
      • Intro to 3D shadows
      • Cast a 3D shadow
      • 3D shadow controls
      • How shadows interact with 3D layers
      • Shadows without lights
      • Cast a reflection
      • Reflection controls
      • How groups affect reflections
      • Limit recursive reflections
    • Intro to the Timeline
    • Display or resize the Timing pane
      • Dragging objects to the Timeline
      • Drag to the Timeline layers list
      • Drag to the Timeline track area
      • Set Timeline dragging preferences
      • Intro to managing Timeline layers and tracks
      • Select and organize Timeline layers
      • Unlink video and audio
      • Customize the Timeline
      • Edit in the Timeline
      • Move objects in the Timeline
      • Trim objects in the Timeline
      • Slip video layers in the Timeline
      • Split objects in the Timeline
      • Delete objects in the Timeline
      • Copy and paste objects in the Timeline
      • Group tracks in the Timeline
      • Edit the group track in the Timeline
    • Navigate in the Timeline
    • Show and modify keyframes in the Timeline
      • Intro to the Timeline ruler
      • Edit a range of frames in the Timeline
      • Intro to Timeline markers
      • Add, move, and delete Timeline markers
      • Edit Timeline marker information
      • Navigate with Timeline markers
    • Edit in the mini-Timeline
      • Intro to retiming media in the Timeline
      • Retime media in the Timeline
      • Timing controls
      • Manage retiming analysis
    • Intro to behaviors
    • Behaviors versus keyframes
      • Browse for behaviors
        • Intro to applying behaviors
        • Add, remove, and disable behaviors
        • Where applied behaviors appear
        • Add or remove a Parameter behavior
        • Reassign a Parameter behavior
        • Where Parameter behaviors appear
      • Disable, lock, or rename behaviors
      • Copy, paste, or move behaviors
        • Intro to behavior timing
        • Stop a behavior
        • Trim behaviors
        • Controlling Simulation behaviors
        • Modify behavior timing
        • Offset Parameter behavior timing
      • Behavior order of operations
      • Combining behaviors with keyframes
      • Behaviors and keyframes in the Keyframe Editor
      • Keyframing parameters in behaviors
      • Convert behaviors to keyframes
      • Intro to adjusting behaviors
      • Adjust behaviors
      • Intro to behavior types
        • Intro to basic Motion behaviors
        • Align To behavior
        • Fade In/Fade Out behavior
        • Grow/Shrink behavior
        • Motion Path behavior
        • Work with the Motion Path behavior
        • Move behavior
        • Point At behavior
        • Snap Alignment to Motion behavior
        • Spin behavior
        • Throw behavior
        • Intro to Parameter behaviors
        • Audio behavior
        • Average behavior
        • Clamp behavior
        • Custom behavior
        • Add a Custom behavior
        • Exponential behavior
        • Link behavior
        • Logarithmic behavior
        • MIDI behavior
        • Add a MIDI behavior
        • Negate behavior
        • Oscillate behavior
        • Create a decaying oscillation
        • Overshoot behavior
        • Quantize behavior
        • Ramp behavior
        • Randomize behavior
        • Rate behavior
        • Reverse behavior
        • Stop behavior
        • Track behavior
        • Wriggle behavior
        • Intro to Retiming behaviors
        • Flash Frame behavior
        • Hold Frame behavior
        • Loop behavior
        • Ping Pong behavior
        • Replay behavior
        • Reverse behavior
        • Reverse Loop behavior
        • Scrub behavior
        • Set Speed behavior
        • Strobe behavior
        • Stutter behavior
        • Intro to Simulation behaviors
        • Align to Motion behavior
        • Attracted To behavior
        • Attractor behavior
        • Drag behavior
        • Drift Attracted To behavior
        • Drift Attractor behavior
        • Edge Collision behavior
        • Gravity behavior
        • Orbit Around behavior
        • Random Motion behavior
        • Repel behavior
        • Repel From behavior
        • Rotational Drag behavior
        • Spring behavior
        • Vortex behavior
        • Wind behavior
      • Additional behaviors
      • Save custom behaviors
      • Delete custom behaviors
      • Move behaviors to another computer
    • Intro to keyframing
    • Add keyframes
      • Add an animation path in the canvas
      • Modify animation paths
      • Animate from the Inspector
      • Animation menu controls
      • Use the Animation menu
      • Keyframe controls in the Inspector
    • Animate from the HUD
      • Apply keyframes to behaviors
      • Combining keyframes and behaviors
      • View keyframes in the Timeline
      • Modify keyframes in the Timeline
      • Effect duration and keyframe timing
      • Display the Keyframe Editor
      • Keyframe Editor controls
        • Add or delete keyframes in the Keyframe Editor
        • Modify keyframes in the Keyframe Editor
        • Reverse, lock, or disable keyframes
        • Copy and paste keyframes and curves
        • Draw an animation curve
        • Transform curve segments
        • Apply parameter behaviors to curves
        • Compare curve snapshots
        • Set curve interpolation
        • Curve interpolation methods
        • Convert to Bezier interpolation
        • Set curve extrapolation
        • Curve extrapolation methods
        • Convert extrapolated curves to keyframes
        • Choose a curve view
        • Create a custom curve view
      • Save an animation curve
    • Use the mini-curve editor
    • Animate on the fly
    • Simplify a keyframe curve
    • Intro to Final Cut Pro templates
      • Template workflow
      • Placeholders vs. drop zones
      • Create an effect template
      • Modify a Final Cut Pro effect
      • Example: Modify a Final Cut Pro effect
      • Create a transition template
      • Example: Create a blur transition
      • Create a transition background
      • Modify a Final Cut Pro transition
      • Create a title template
      • Create a title background
      • Modify a Final Cut Pro title
      • Create a generator template
      • Modify a Final Cut Pro generator
      • Convert a Motion project to Final Cut Pro
      • Convert a template to another type
    • Use placeholder images in templates
      • Adding controls to templates
      • Publish controls to Final Cut Pro
      • Manage template controls in Motion
      • Publishing template text controls
      • Template items that can’t be published
      • Intro to template markers
      • Add template markers
      • Animation guidelines for templates
      • Timing guidelines for templates
    • Set template resolution
    • Add multiple aspect ratios to templates
    • Override the Final Cut Pro color space
    • Where are templates saved?
    • Using masks in templates
    • Guidelines for better templates
    • Intro to rigging
    • How does rigging work?
    • Build a simple rig
    • Work with widgets
      • Slider widget
      • Pop-up menu widget
      • Checkbox widget
      • Intro to snapshots
      • How snapshots are saved
      • Create and manage snapshots
    • Control rigs from Animation menus
      • How to use a single rig
      • How to use multiple rigs
      • Widget animation
    • Publish rigs to Final Cut Pro
    • Intro to Particles
      • Add a particle system
      • Anatomy of a particle emitter
      • Modify particle systems
        • Adjust particles from the HUD
        • Emitter HUD controls
        • Adjust particles from the Inspector
        • Single-cell vs. multi-cell controls
        • Emitter controls
        • Particle cell controls
      • Adjust basic emitter properties
      • Animating emitters and cells
      • Apply behaviors to particles
        • Scale Over Life controls
        • Spin Over Life controls
      • View emitter or cell keyframes
    • Create 3D particles
    • Particle system timing
    • Using graphics in particle systems
    • Using filters and masks with particles
    • Save custom particle effects
    • Intro to replicators
    • Replicators vs. particle systems
      • Add a replicator
      • Anatomy of a replicator
      • Modify basic replicator attributes
      • Remove a replicator or cell
      • Adjust a replicator from the HUD
        • Adjust a replicator from the Inspector
        • Replicator controls
        • Create a custom replicator shape
        • Replicator cell controls
      • Adjust additional replicator properties
      • Animating replicators
      • Apply behaviors to replicators
      • Replicator behavior considerations
      • Apply the Sequence Replicator behavior
      • Sequence Replicator controls
      • Control sequence timing with keyframes
      • Use Parameter behaviors with Sequence Replicator
      • Display replicator animation curves
    • Work with 3D replicators
    • Replicator timing
    • Using filters and masks with replicators
    • Save custom replicators
    • Intro to basic text
      • Set preferences before you add text
      • Add text
      • Using TXT and RTF files
    • Select and modify text in the canvas
    • Preview and apply fonts
    • Use preset text styles
      • Intro to editing text
      • Display the Text Inspector or HUD
      • Display the text Format pane
      • Format text
      • Text Format controls
      • Display the text Appearance pane
      • Modify text color
      • Modify text opacity
      • Modify text softness
      • Apply an image texture to text
      • Add a text outline, glow, or drop shadow
        • 3D Text controls
        • Text Face controls
        • Text Outline controls
        • Text Glow controls
        • Text Drop Shadow controls
      • Save a custom text style
      • Display the text Layout pane
        • Create text on a path
        • Modify a text path in 3D space
        • Use a geometry shape as a text path
        • Animate text on a path
        • Create and adjust text margins
        • Add, remove, and modify text tabs
        • Text Layout controls
        • Text Rendering controls
        • Text Behavior controls
        • Text Type On controls
        • Text Path Options controls
        • Text Margins controls
        • Text Tabs controls
      • Intro to text glyphs
      • Select characters with the Transform Glyph tool
      • Modify a text glyph
      • Distort a glyph in the canvas
      • Reset glyphs
      • Glyph controls in the Text HUD
    • Convert standard text to 3D text
    • Check spelling
    • Find and replace text
    • Using filters with text
    • Intro to 3D text
    • 3D text workflow
      • Add 3D text
      • Convert 2D text to 3D text
    • Apply a preset 3D text style
    • Move and rotate 3D text
      • Modify 3D text format and layout
      • Modify 3D text depth and weight
      • 3D Text controls
      • Intro to 3D text surface materials
        • Apply a preset material to 3D text
        • Apply a custom material to 3D text
        • Modify 3D text materials
        • Add or remove 3D text material layers
        • Make light-emitting 3D text
        • Apply materials to 3D text facets
        • Save a modified 3D text material
        • Intro to 3D text material controls
        • 3D text Substance controls
        • 3D text Paint controls
        • 3D text Finish controls
        • 3D text Distress controls
        • 3D text Emit controls
        • 3D text Placement controls
        • Example: Customize a metal gradient
      • Intro to lighting 3D text
      • Adjust 3D text lighting
      • Modify 3D text environment lighting
      • 3D text Lighting and Environment controls
    • Add a glow or drop shadow to 3D text
    • 3D text intersection
    • Intro to animated text
    • Apply a text behavior
      • Preset text behaviors
      • Customize a preset text behavior
      • Example: Modify the Flare In behavior
      • Apply the Sequence Text behavior
      • Fine-tune a Sequence Text behavior
      • Add keyframes to a Sequence Text behavior
      • Sequence the distortion of 2D text
      • Sequence Text behavior controls
      • Use the Scroll Text behavior
      • Scroll Text controls
      • Use the Text Tracking behavior
      • Text Tracking controls
      • Use the Type On behavior
      • Type On controls
    • Animate individual text glyphs
    • Animating 2D text in 3D space
    • When to use keyframes to animate text
    • Adding nontext behaviors to text
    • Save a modified text behavior
    • Intro to shapes, masks, and paint strokes
      • Intro to simple shapes and masks
      • Draw simple shapes
      • Add shapes from the Library
      • Draw simple masks
      • Convert a shape or mask to control points
      • Intro to complex shapes and masks
      • Draw complex shapes and masks
      • Intro to paint strokes
      • Create a paint stroke
      • Convert outlines to paint strokes
      • Adjust stroke width in the canvas
      • Paint Stroke controls in the HUD
      • Intro to editing control points
      • Show control points
      • Select or lock control points
      • Add or delete control points
      • Move control points to adjust shapes
      • Edit Bezier control points
      • Edit B-Spline control points
      • Use dynamic guides and snapping
    • Edit fill, outline, and feathering
      • Intro to shape controls
      • Style pane controls
      • Style pane movie controls
      • Stroke pane controls
      • Advanced pane controls
      • Geometry pane controls
      • Intro to Shape behaviors
      • Add a Shape behavior
      • Apply Pen Pressure behavior
      • Adjust Pen Speed behavior
      • Apply Pen Tilt behavior
      • Oscillate Shape behavior
      • Randomize Shape behavior
      • Sequence Paint behavior
      • Track Points behavior
      • Wriggle Shape behavior
      • Write On behavior
    • Keyframe shape control points
      • Intro to masks and transparency
      • Mask a layer
      • Combining multiple masks
      • Applying filters or behaviors to masks
        • Rotoscope a mask’s shape
        • Rotoscoping tips
      • Mask controls in the Inspector
        • Intro to image masks
        • Apply an image mask to a layer
        • Image mask controls
    • Convert between shapes and masks
    • Using filters and masks with shapes
    • Copy shape styles
    • Save custom shapes and shape styles
    • Intro to using generators
    • Add a generator
      • Modify or animate a generator
      • Controls common to all generators
      • Intro to image generators
      • Caustics generator
      • Cellular generator
      • Checkerboard generator
      • Clouds generator
      • Color Solid generator
      • Concentric Polka Dots generator
      • Concentric Shapes generator
      • Gradient generator
      • Grid generator
      • Japanese Pattern generator
      • Lens Flare generator
      • Manga Lines generator
      • Membrane generator
      • Noise generator
      • One Color Ray generator
      • Op Art 1 generator
      • Op Art 2 generator
      • Op Art 3 generator
      • Overlapping Circles generator
      • Radial Bars generator
      • Soft Gradient generator
      • Spirals generator
      • Spiral Drawing generator
      • Use Spiral Drawing onscreen controls
      • Star generator
      • Stripes generator
      • Sunburst generator
      • Truchet Tiles generator
      • Two Color Ray generator
      • Intro to text generators
      • File generator
      • Numbers generator
      • Time Date generator
      • Timecode generator
    • Save a modified generator
    • Intro to filters
    • Browse and preview filters
    • Apply or remove filters
      • Intro to adjusting filters
      • Adjust filters in the Inspector or HUD
      • Adjust filters in the canvas
      • Types of onscreen filter controls
      • Intro to filter types
        • Intro to Blur filters
        • Channel Blur filter
        • Circle Blur filter
        • Compound Blur filter
        • Defocus filter
        • Directional Blur filter
        • Gaussian Blur filter
        • Gradient Blur filter
        • Prism filter
        • Radial Blur filter
        • Soft Focus filter
        • Variable Blur filter
        • Zoom Blur filter
        • Intro to Border filters
        • Bevel filter
        • Simple Border filter
        • Stroke filter
        • Widescreen filter
        • Intro to Color filters
        • Brightness filter
        • Channel Mixer filter
        • Color Balance filter
        • Example: Color-balance two layers
        • Color Curves filter
        • Use the Color Curves filter
        • Color Reduce filter
        • Color Wheels filter
        • Use the Color Wheels filter
        • Colorize filter
        • Contrast filter
        • Custom LUT filter
        • Use the Custom LUT filter
        • Gamma filter
        • Gradient Colorize filter
        • HDR Tools filter
        • Hue/Saturation filter
        • Hue/Saturation Curves filter
        • Use the Hue/Saturation Curves filter
        • Levels filter
        • Negative filter
        • OpenEXR Tone Map filter
        • Sepia filter
        • Threshold filter
        • Tint filter
        • Intro to Distortion filters
        • Black Hole filter
        • Bulge filter
        • Bump Map filter
        • Disc Warp filter
        • Droplet filter
        • Earthquake filter
        • Fisheye filter
        • Flop filter
        • Fun House filter
        • Glass Block filter
        • Glass Distortion
        • Insect Eye filter
        • Mirror filter
        • Page Curl filter
        • Poke filter
        • Polar filter
        • Refraction filter
        • Ring Lens filter
        • Ripple filter
        • Scrape filter
        • Sphere filter
        • Starburst filter
        • Stripes filter
        • Target filter
        • Tiny Planet filter
        • Twirl filter
        • Underwater filter
        • Wave filter
        • Intro to Glow filters
        • Aura filter
        • Bloom filter
        • Dazzle filter
        • Glint filter
        • Gloom filter
        • Glow filter
        • Light Rays filter
        • Outer Glow filter
        • Overdrive filter
        • Intro to Looks filters
        • Bleach filter
        • California filter
        • Chrome filter
        • Cool filter
        • Fade filter
        • Instant filter
        • Mono filter
        • Nevada filter
        • New York filter
        • Noir filter
        • Process filter
        • Sixties filter
        • Tonal filter
        • Transfer filter
        • Intro to Sharpen filters
        • Sharpen filter
        • Unsharp Mask filter
        • Intro to Stylize filters
        • Add Noise filter
        • Bad Film filter
        • Bad TV filter
        • Circle Screen filter
        • Circles filter
        • Color Emboss filter
        • Comic filter
        • Crystallize filter
        • Edges filter
        • Extrude filter
        • Fill filter
        • Halftone filter
        • Hatched Screen filter
        • Highpass filter
        • Indent filter
        • Line Art filter
        • Line Screen filter
        • MinMax filter
        • Noise Dissolve filter
        • Pixellate filter
        • Posterize filter
        • Relief filter
        • Slit Scan filter
        • Slit Tunnel filter
        • Texture Screen filter
        • Vignette filter
        • Wavy Screen filter
        • Intro to Tiling filters
        • Kaleidoscope filter
        • Kaleidotile filter
        • Offset filter
        • Parallelogram Tile filter
        • Perspective Tile filter
        • Random Tile filter
        • Tile filter
        • Triangle Tile filter
        • Intro to Time filters
        • Echo filter
        • Scrub filter
        • Strobe filter
        • Trails filter
        • WideTime filter
        • Intro to Video filters
        • Broadcast Safe filter
        • Deinterlace filter
      • Animate filter parameters with keyframes
      • Animate filters using behaviors
    • Publish filter parameters to Final Cut Pro
    • Using filters on alpha channels
    • Filter performance
    • Save custom filters
    • Intro to color keying
      • Intro to the Keyer filter
      • Use the Keyer filter
      • Keyer filter controls
      • Animating color key parameters
      • Intro to the Luma Keyer filter
      • Luma Keyer filter controls
      • Intro to refining mattes
      • Crop background with a garbage mask
      • Restore foreground with a holdout mask
      • Matte Magic filter
      • Spill Suppression filter
      • Apply multiple keys
    • Intro to 3D objects
    • Add a 3D object
    • Move and rotate a 3D object
    • Reposition a 3D object’s anchor point
      • Intro to modifying 3D objects
      • Modify 3D object properties
      • Modify a 3D object’s inherent size and orientation
    • Exchange a 3D object file
    • 3D object intersection and layer order
      • Intro to 3D object timing
      • Modify 3D object timing in Motion
    • Using cameras and lights with 3D objects
    • Save custom 3D objects
    • Guidelines for working with 3D objects
    • Working with imported 3D objects
    • Intro to 360-degree video
    • 360-degree projects
    • Create 360-degree projects
    • Add 360-degree video to a project
      • View 360-degree projects
      • View 360-degree video in a VR headset
      • Intro to graphics in 360-degree projects
      • Use graphics in 360-degree projects
    • Create a tiny planet effect
    • Reorient 360-degree media
    • Creating 360-degree templates for Final Cut Pro
    • 360-degree-aware filters and generators
    • Export and share 360-degree projects
    • Guidelines for better 360-degree projects
    • Intro to tracking
    • How does motion tracking work?
    • Motion tracking behavior types
    • Analyze motion in a clip
      • Intro to match moving
      • Match move an object
      • Two-point tracking
      • Corner-pin a foreground object
      • Combining animation and tracking data
    • Stabilize a shaky clip
    • Unstabilize a clip
    • Use a range of frames for analysis
    • Load existing tracking data
    • Track shapes, masks, and paint strokes
    • Track a filter’s position parameter
    • Adjust onscreen trackers
      • Intro to tracking guidelines
      • Basic tracking strategies
      • Advanced tracking strategies
      • Track perspective, scale, or rotational shifts
      • Track obscured or off-frame points
      • Tracking retimed footage
      • Improve stabilization
      • Remove borders from stabilized clips
      • Use masks with tracking behaviors
      • Analyze Motion controls
      • Match Move controls
      • Stabilize controls
      • Unstabilize controls
      • Track Points controls
      • Track controls
    • Save tracks to the Library
    • Intro to audio
    • View audio files
    • Add audio files
    • Play audio files
      • Intro to audio editing
      • Adjust audio
      • Cut, copy, paste, and delete audio
      • Slip, slide, and trim audio
      • Use audio with markers
        • Work with the Master audio track
        • Select audio output channels
        • Animate audio level and pan
        • Sync audio and video
      • Retime audio
      • Intro to audio behaviors
      • Audio Auto Pan behavior
      • Audio Fade In/Fade Out behavior
      • Audio parameter behavior
      • Apply the Audio parameter behavior
    • Intro to exporting projects
    • Export a QuickTime movie
    • Export audio only
    • Export a still image
    • Export an image sequence
    • Export to Apple devices
    • Export to email
    • Export using Compressor
    • Create share destinations
    • Render settings
    • View the status of shared items
    • Share notifications
      • Popular video codecs
      • Field order
      • Pixel aspect ratio
      • Computer graphics versus video color
      • High-resolution graphics
    • Intro to preferences and shortcuts
      • Change preference settings
      • General preferences
      • Appearance preferences
      • Project preferences
      • Time preferences
      • Cache preferences
      • Canvas preferences
      • 3D preferences
      • Presets preferences
        • Intro to Destinations preferences
        • Email destination in Motion
        • Save Current Frame destination
        • Export Image Sequence destination in Motion
        • Export File destination in Motion
        • Compressor Settings destination in Motion
        • Bundle destination in Motion
      • Project Preset Editor
      • Intro to menus
      • Application (Motion) menu
      • File menu
      • Edit menu
      • Mark menu
      • Object menu
      • Favorites menu
      • View menu
      • Window menu
      • Help menu
      • Intro to Keyboard shortcuts
      • Use function keys
      • General keyboard shortcuts
        • Menu bar keyboard shortcuts
        • Motion menu keyboard shortcuts
        • File menu keyboard shortcuts
        • Edit menu keyboard shortcuts
        • Mark menu keyboard shortcuts
        • Object menu keyboard shortcuts
        • View menu keyboard shortcuts
        • Share menu keyboard shortcuts
        • Window menu keyboard shortcuts
        • Help menu keyboard shortcuts
      • Audio list keyboard shortcuts
        • Tools keyboard shortcuts
        • Transform tool keyboard shortcuts
        • Select/Transform tool keyboard shortcuts
        • Crop tool keyboard shortcuts
        • Edit Points tool keyboard shortcuts
        • Edit shape tools keyboard shortcuts
        • Pan and Zoom tools keyboard shortcuts
        • Shape tools keyboard shortcuts
        • Bezier tool keyboard shortcuts
        • B-Spline tool keyboard shortcuts
        • Paint Stroke tool keyboard shortcuts
        • Text tool keyboard shortcuts
        • Shape mask tools keyboard shortcuts
        • Bezier Mask tool keyboard shortcuts
        • B-Spline Mask tool keyboard shortcuts
      • Transport control keyboard shortcuts
      • View option keyboard shortcuts
      • HUD keyboard shortcuts
      • Inspector keyboard shortcuts
      • Keyframe Editor keyboard shortcuts
      • Layers keyboard shortcuts
      • Library keyboard shortcuts
      • Media list keyboard shortcuts
      • Timeline keyboard shortcuts
      • Keyframing keyboard shortcuts
      • Shape and Mask keyboard shortcuts
      • 3D keyboard shortcuts
      • Miscellaneous keyboard shortcuts
        • Intro to the Command Editor
        • Command Editor interface
        • Search for keyboard shortcuts
        • Create custom keyboard shortcuts
        • Import and export keyboard shortcuts
    • Touch Bar shortcuts
    • Move assets to another computer
      • Intro to color and gradient controls
        • Use basic color controls
        • Use the pop-up color palette
        • Use the Colors window
        • Use the color eyedropper
        • Use expanded color controls
        • Intro to using the gradient editor
        • Use a gradient preset
        • Change gradient color and opacity
        • Change gradient direction and spread
        • Modify gradient tags
        • Save gradients
        • Use onscreen gradient controls
        • Basic gradient controls
        • Gradient editor controls
      • Intro to rasterization
      • Examples of rasterization
      • How rasterization affects text
      • How rasterization affects 3D text and 3D objects
      • How rasterization affects shapes
      • How rasterization affects particles and replicators
      • How rasterization affects shadows
      • How rasterization affects filters
      • Intro to wide color gamut and HDR
      • Use wide-gamut HDR color processing
      • View HDR media
      • Adjust HDR media
      • Choose with wide-gamut HDR colors
      • Display HDR luminance values in Motion
      • Wide-gamut HDR tips
    • Work with GPUs
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