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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Transform layers in 3D space in Motion

In Motion, 2D layers and groups can exist in the same project as 3D layers and groups. You can manipulate any 2D layer in 3D space by using the 3D Transform tool.

Move a layer in 3D space

In the Motion canvas toolbar, select the 3D Transform tool (or press Q).
Select a layer or group in the Layers list or canvas.
A bounding box with 3D handles appears on the selected object in the canvas.
Do any of the following:
- Move the object horizontally: Drag the red arrow to move the object along its X axis.
- Move the object vertically: Drag the green arrow to move the object along its Y axis.
- Move the object forward or backward: Drag the blue handle to move the object along its Z axis.
  Tip: If the blue handle is facing forward, drag left or right to move the object forward or backward.

As you drag, the active arrow turns yellow, and the status bar above the canvas displays the current coordinates of the object as well as the distance the object has moved (delta). Coordinates are given in the form of X, Y, and Z. See View dynamic canvas feedback in Motion.

Rotate a layer in 3D space

In the Motion canvas toolbar, select the 3D Transform tool (or press Q).
Select a layer or group in the Layers list or canvas.
A bounding box with 3D handles appears on the selected object in the canvas.
Move the pointer over one of the rotation handles (small circles surrounding the arrows) until a color rotation ring appears, then drag the ring.
- The red ring rotates the object around its X axis.
- The green ring rotates the object around its Y axis.
- The blue ring rotates the object around its Z axis.

As you drag, the status bar above the canvas displays the absolute rotation values as well as the amount of rotation change (delta).

Canvas showing object rotating around X axis

Note: If the values do not appear in the status bar, go to the Appearance pane in Motion Preferences (press Command-Comma), then select the “Dynamic Tool Info” checkbox.

Rotate a layer around all axes simultaneously

In the Motion canvas toolbar, select the 3D Transform tool (or press Q).
Select a layer or group in the Layers list or canvas.
3D handles appear on the selected object in the canvas.
Pressing and holding the Command key, move the pointer over one of the rotation handles (small circles surrounding the arrows) until all three rotation rings appear, then drag within the rings (but not over the rotation handle).

The object rotates around all three axes simultaneously, and the status bar above the canvas displays the absolute rotation values as well as the amount of rotation change (delta).

Display a subset of the 3D transform handles

In Motion, do any of the following:

Display the axis arrows only: Press the Comma key (,).
Display the rotation handles only: Press the Period key (.).
Display the scale handles only: Press the Slash key (/).
When you press any key a second time, the display switches back to the default, with all three of the onscreen controls visible.

Transform a layer in 3D space using the HUD

As an alternative to dragging in the canvas, you can transform layers and groups in 3D space using graphic controls in the HUD.

In the Motion canvas toolbar, select the 3D Transform tool (or press Q).
Select a layer or group in the Layers list or canvas.
Choose Window > Show HUD or press D.
In the HUD, do any of the following:
- Move a layer: Drag in any of the three Move squares to reposition the object along its Z axis, X and Y axes, or X and Z axes. Press and hold the Command key while dragging to simultaneously scale the object as it’s moved, preserving its size relative to the camera.
- Rotate a layer: Drag in the Rotate square to rotate the object around the X and Y axes. To rotate around the Z axis, press and hold the Command key while dragging.
- Resize a layer: Drag in the Scale square to uniformly resize the selected object in the canvas. To constrain scaling to the axis corresponding to the initial direction of the drag, press and hold the Command key while dragging.
- Choose an axis type: Click the Adjust Around pop-up menu, then choose an item. Local Axis (the default) orients 3D transforms to the object’s local coordinates. World Axis orients 3D transforms to the coordinates of the 3D grid in the canvas. View Axis orients 3D transforms to the view space of the current view, with the Z axis aligned along the view’s line of sight. For more information on views, see Cameras and views in Motion.

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