Welcome
- What’s new in Motion 5.6.1
- What’s new in Motion 5.6
- 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 adding and managing content
- Intro to project playback
- Define the play range
- Project playback performance
- Intro to basic compositing
- - Modify layer opacity
- 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 the Timeline
- Display or resize the Timing pane
- Navigate in the Timeline
- Show and modify keyframes in the Timeline
- - Intro to the Timeline ruler
  - Edit a range of frames in the Timeline
- Edit in the mini-Timeline
- Intro to behaviors
- Behaviors versus keyframes
- - Browse for behaviors
- - Intro to adjusting behaviors
  - Adjust behaviors
- Intro to keyframing
- Add keyframes
- - Add an animation path in the canvas
  - Modify animation paths
- Animate from the HUD
- - Apply keyframes to behaviors
  - Combining keyframes and behaviors
- 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 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
- 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
- Control rigs from Animation menus
- Publish rigs to Final Cut Pro
- Intro to Particles
- - Add a particle system
  - Anatomy of a particle emitter
- 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
- Work with 3D replicators
- Replicator timing
- Using filters and masks with replicators
- Save custom replicators
- Intro to basic text
- 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
- 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
- Add a glow or drop shadow to 3D text
- 3D text intersection
- Intro to animated text
- Apply a text behavior
- - 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 complex shapes and masks
  - Draw complex shapes and masks
- Edit fill, outline, and feathering
- Keyframe shape control points
- 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
- Save a modified generator
- Intro to filters
- Browse and preview filters
- Apply or remove filters
- - 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 Luma Keyer filter
  - Luma Keyer filter controls
- Intro to 3D objects
- Add a 3D object
- Move and rotate a 3D object
- Reposition a 3D object’s anchor point
- 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?
- Analyze and record motion in a clip
- Track shapes, masks, and paint strokes
- Track the position of a filter or object
- Adjust onscreen trackers
- Load existing tracking data
- Use a range of frames for analysis
- Save tracks to the Library
- Intro to audio
- View audio files
- Add audio files
- Play audio files
- 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
- Intro to preferences and shortcuts
- Touch Bar shortcuts
- Move assets to another computer
- Work with GPUs
Glossary
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File menu in Motion

The File menu contains functions and commands for managing Motion files.

New: Opens either the Project Browser or a new default Motion project (if you’ve already set a default project). (Command-N)
New from Project Browser: Opens the Project Browser. (Option-Command-N)
Open: Opens a dialog to select a Motion project to open. (Command-O)
Open Recent: Opens a submenu that lists the most recently opened files.
Close: Closes the current project. If the project has not been saved, Motion asks you to save the project before closing the window. (Command-W)
Save: Stores the current state of the project to disk. (Command-S)
Save As: Saves the current state of the project with a new name. (Shift-Command-S)
Publish Template: Available when the current project is a standard Motion project, saves the current project as a Motion template or a Final Cut Generator template (for use in Final Cut Pro). See Intro to using templates in Motion and Create a generator template in Motion.
Revert to Saved: Restores the selected project to the last saved state. Changes made after the last save are lost. Use caution; you cannot undo this operation.
Restore from Autosave: Displays a dialog where you can choose a project previously saved to the Autosave Vault. See Cache preferences in Motion.
Import: Opens a dialog to select a file to import into your project. (Command-I)
Import As: Opens a submenu of options for importing:
- Project: Opens a dialog to select a file to import as the basis of a new project using the file’s dimensions and duration. If multiple items are selected, they’re all placed in the same project. Additional options are available if an image sequence is selected. See Open an existing project in Motion. (Shift-Command-I)
- Unused Media: Opens a dialog to select a file to import into the Media list. The imported media file isn’t added to your composition; instead, it’s stored in the Media list for future use in your project.
- Audio: Opens a dialog to select an audio file to import into your project. If you select a video clip that has audio, only the audio component is imported.
Share: Opens a submenu of options for sharing your project:
- Export Movie: Exports your project as a QuickTime movie to a Finder folder to use in other projects and applications or to distribute manually. See Export a QuickTime movie in Motion.
- Export Selection to Movie: Exports the current selection as a QuickTime movie to a Finder folder. See Export a QuickTime movie in Motion.
- Export Audio: Exports only the audio portion your project as an audio file to a Finder folder. See Export a QuickTime movie in Motion.
- Save Current Frame: Saves the frame currently visible in the canvas as a still image file to a Finder folder. See Export a still image in Motion.
- Export Image Sequence: Exports your project as an image sequence to a Finder folder. See Export a QuickTime movie in Motion.
- Apple Devices: Exports your project using presets that allow you to watch it on Apple TV, or download it to iPad, iPhone, or iPod. See Export to Apple devices in Motion.
- Email: Opens the Mail application and attaches your project as a rendered movie file. See Export to email in Motion.
- [Custom Compressor Setting]: If you’ve created a custom Compressor setting (in the Compressor app), exports your project using that predefined export setting. See Export from Motion using Compressor.
- Add Destination: Opens the Destinations pane of Motion Preferences. See Create and modify share destinations in Motion.
- Send to Compressor: Renders your project through the Compressor app (if installed), allowing you to further customize your export settings and output a single movie file to a Finder folder. See Export from Motion using Compressor.
- Convert Project To: Opens a submenu of options for converting a standard Motion project to a Final Cut Effect, Final Cut Generator, Final Cut Title, or Final Cut Transition template, converting a Final Cut template to a different template type, or converting any template to a standard Motion project. See Convert a Motion project to Final Cut Pro or Convert a template to another type in Motion.
Reconnect Media: Reestablishes a link to a file on disk when a layer in your project has been moved or modified.
Remove Unused Media: Removes a media item from your project when the item is stored in the Media list but not used in the project.
Remove Optical Flow Retiming: Resets the retiming information file when a media item has been processed for retiming. See Intro to retiming media in the Motion Timeline.
Page Setup: Displays the standard macOS Page Setup dialog, where you can set paper size and orientation for printing. (Shift-Command-P)
Print: Displays the standard macOS Print dialog, where you can print the contents of the canvas. (Command-P)

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