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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Add a replicator in Motion

There are two basic ways to add a replicator to a Motion project:

Choose a preset from the Replicators category of the Library.
Create a custom replicator using your own image, shape, or video clip as a cell source. You can increase replicator complexity by using multiple cell sources.

Add a preset replicator from the Library

In the Library in Motion, select the Replicators category, then select a subcategory, such as Mattes, Transitional, Backgrounds, and so on.
In the Library stack under the categories and subcategories, select a replicator object.
A preview of the selected replicator appears in the Library preview area.
Do one of the following:
- Click Apply in the preview area to add the replicator to the center of the canvas.
  Note: If Create Layers At is set to “Start of project” in the Project pane of Motion Preferences, the replicator is added at the first frame. See If it’s your first import in Motion.
- Drag the replicator from the Library stack into the canvas at the position where you want it to appear.
- Drag the replicator from the Library stack to a group in the Layers list or Timeline layers list.
- Drag the replicator to the track area of the Timeline or mini-Timeline. When you reach the frame where you want the new replicator to start, release the mouse button.
  The replicator preset appears in the project, composited above objects below it in the Layers list.

To modify the default parameters, see Adjust a replicator from the HUD in Motion and Adjust a replicator from the Inspector in Motion.

Create a simple custom replicator

You can create a custom replicator pattern by designating an image layer in your project as a source for the cell. Applying a replicator to that layer creates a nonanimated, filled rectangular pattern. You can then modify the replicator parameters to suit your project needs.

In Motion, create a layer to serve as the cell source for a custom replicator.
This example uses a bird graphic from the Content folder in the Library.
Select the layer in the Layers list or canvas, then do one of the following:
- In the toolbar, click the Replicate button.
- Choose Object > Replicate (or press L).
The new custom replicator layer appears in the Layers list and in the canvas, composited against any other layers you’ve already added.

To modify the default parameters, see Adjust a replicator from the HUD in Motion and Adjust a replicator from the Inspector in Motion.

Create a complex replicator using multiple source layers

You can create a more complex pattern containing multiple elements by adding multiple image sources to a single replicator. Each source becomes a cell in the replicator, and each cell has its own set of parameters.

In the Layers list or Timeline in Motion, select the layers to replicate.
This example uses two graphics from the Content folder in the Library.
Note: Shift-click to select contiguous layers; Command-click to select noncontiguous layers.
Do one of the following:
- In the toolbar, click the Replicate button.
- Choose Object > Replicate (or press L).
The cells of the default replicator pattern are created from the source layers (which are deselected so they don’t appear in the composition).
When multiple cells create a replicator pattern, the elements appear at the same points on the pattern. The replicator is positioned at the average of the source’s positions.

Add additional cells to an existing replicator

In the Layers list in Motion, drag an existing image layer onto the replicator.
Note: You cannot drag a media item from the Library onto a replicator in the Layers list.
The layer is duplicated as a new cell in the replicator.
Note: If the layer you drag to a replicator is a shape or mask, a drop menu appears, giving you the option to add it as a replicator cell or as a mask. See Using filters and masks with replicators in Motion.

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Motion User Guide

Add a replicator in Motion

Add a preset replicator from the Library

Create a simple custom replicator

Create a complex replicator using multiple source layers

Add additional cells to an existing replicator