Welcome
- What’s new in Motion 5.6.4
- 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 for Mac templates
- - Template workflow
  - Placeholders vs. drop zones
- - Convert a Motion project to a Final Cut Pro template
  - 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
- Create templates that conform to the Final Cut Pro color space
- Where are templates saved?
- Using masks in templates
- - General template guidelines
  - Tips for color processing in 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
- About filters and color processing
- Publish filter controls 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
- About color space
- Intro to color management
- Set the color processing method
- Manage automatic color processing
- View HDR media
- Adjust HDR media
- Choose HDR colors
- Display luminance values
- Tips for color management
- Intro to Cinematic mode video
- Move Cinematic clips to your Mac
- Enable Cinematic mode video adjustments
- Adjust focus points in Cinematic mode video clips in Motion
- Adjust depth of field in Cinematic mode video clips
- Intro to settings and shortcuts
- Touch Bar shortcuts
- Move assets to another computer
- Work with GPUs
Glossary
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Track shapes, masks, and paint strokes in Motion

You can use the Track Points behavior (located in the Shape Behaviors category) with shapes, masks, and paint strokes to:

Match the control points of a shape, paint stroke, or mask to points or patterns in a video clip (for example, when rotoscoping)
Apply tracking data recorded by the Analyze Motion, Match Move, or Stabilize behaviors to the control points of a shape or mask
Apply the animation of one shape (or other object) to the control points of another shape or mask

Note: To apply the analyzed movement of an object to a shape or mask as a whole (rather than to the shape’s individual control points), use the Match Move behavior.

Track a mask using the Track Points behavior

In the following example, the Track Points behavior is applied to a mask with many control points, isolating a plane in a video clip.

With a clip visible in the Motion canvas, use a mask tool to isolate part of the clip.
For more information on working with masks, see Intro to masks and transparency in Motion.
In the Layers list, select the mask object, then click Behaviors in the toolbar and choose Shape > Track Points.
The tracker is applied to the mask and track points.
Note: If necessary, drag the footage containing the object you are isolating to the Track Point’s Source well in the Behaviors Inspector.
Trackers appear for each control point on the shape. The trackers are arrayed in the same order that the shape was drawn: Control Point 1 is Track 1, Control Point 2 is Track 2, and so on.
Drag the trackers to fine-tune their positions on the reference patterns of the source footage.
As you drag, a magnified inset view of the area around the tracker appears.
To disable a tracker, deselect its checkbox in the Behaviors Inspector.
Note: Control points without an associated tracker are not modified.
In the Behaviors Inspector (or HUD), do one of the following:
- Analyze the clip forward from the position of the playhead: Click Analyze.
- Analyze the portion of the clip before the playhead position: Click the left arrows next to the Analyze button.
- Analyze the portion of the clip after the playhead position: Click the right arrows next to the Analyze button.
The mask control points are tracked to the reference patterns in the source footage.
The image on the left shows the original unmodified clip. The image on the right shows the tracked mask isolating the plane, allowing separate effects to be applied to the plane and its background even though they’re part of the same image. The mask protects the plane from the results of the color effects, blur, and cloud generator.
As with all behaviors, you can drag or copy (by Option-dragging) a Track Points behavior to a new shape in the Layers list. When you apply the behavior to a new shape, the trackers are applied to the control points of the new shape. If the new shape has more control points than the originally tracked shape, only the original track points are applied. For example, if the originally tracked shape has three control points, and the new shape has five control points, trackers are applied to the first three control points of the new shape. If the new shape has fewer control points than the originally tracked shape, trackers are applied to the existing points on the new shape.
Note: Paint strokes usually have a large number of control points. Simplify a paint stroke by deleting or disabling control points before applying a Track Points behavior to the stroke. To track the stroke as a whole, rather than by its control points, use the Match Move behavior. For more information about paint strokes, see Intro to paint strokes in Motion.

Apply the animation of one shape to the control points of another shape

Applying the animation of one animated shape to another is an easy way to create fun, complementary animations in which the objects appear to play with each other. For this workflow, your project must contain an object animated with keyframes or behaviors.

In a Motion project that contains two shapes, animate one of the shapes using keyframes or a Basic Motion behavior.
In this example, a simple line shape is animated with the Spin behavior.
For more information about animating with keyframes, see Intro to keyframing in Motion. For more information about Basic Motion behaviors, such as the Spin behavior, see Intro to basic Motion behaviors.
In the Layers list, select the nonanimated shape, then click Behaviors in the toolbar and choose Shape > Track Points.
Note: When you apply the Track Points behavior to a simple shape, a dialog appears. Click Add to convert the shape’s geometry to control points.
Drag the animated shape from the Layers list to the Track Points behavior’s Source well in the Behaviors Inspector.
Note: If the nonanimated shape is positioned immediately above the animated shape in the Layers list when the Track Points behavior is applied, the animated shape is automatically used as the Track Point behavior’s source.
A thumbnail of the animated object appears in the Source well of the Track Points Behaviors Inspector.
In the Behaviors Inspector, click the Transform pop-up menu, then choose Attach to Source.
The spinning animation of the line is applied to the Bezier shape, which spins and changes shape because the vertex tangents match the transformation of the source animation.
To align the tangents to the transformation of the source object, select the Align Tangents checkbox in the Behaviors Inspector.
The spinning animation of the line is applied to the Bezier shape, which now spins and but does not change shape because its vertex tangents remain aligned at their original angles along the shape.
Note: By default, the Transform pop-up menu is set to Mimic Source. For more information on the Transform pop-up menu, see Track Points controls in Motion.

For a full description of the Track Points parameters, see Track Points controls in Motion.

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Track shapes, masks, and paint strokes in Motion

Track a mask using the Track Points behavior

Apply the animation of one shape to the control points of another shape