Welcome
- 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?
- Motion tracking behavior types
- Analyze motion in a clip
- 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
- 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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3D text Placement controls in Motion

Many material layers use graphic images with fixed dimensions that are “mapped” to the 3D text object—for example, the pattern of a fabric substance or the scratches of a distress layer. When a material layer uses a mapped image, Placement controls become available at the bottom of that layer’s section in the Appearance pane of the Text Inspector. You can use these controls to set how the image is mapped onto the text object.

Canvas showing 3D text with mapped image set to 80% scale and mapped image set to 22% scale

If you have multiple material layers—each using a different mapped image—you can adjust each layer’s Placement controls independently. For example, for a material made of a wood substance and a scratched distress layer, you can rotate the orientation of the wood grain one way, and then rotate the orientation of scratches the other way.

You can also adjust the orientation of multiple material layers at once using a shared set of Placement controls. For example, you can rotate the wood grain and the scratches as a group, in the same direction. The Shared Placement controls, located in the Options section of the Appearance pane (above the material layers controls), become available when you designate the placement for one or more material layers as Shared.

The Options section of the Appearance pane also has a set of Global Placement controls you can use to randomize the placement of any textures applied in any material layer.

Independent Placement controls

These controls appear at the bottom of each material layer in the Appearance pane that uses a texture or image. To see all the controls, click the disclosure triangle.

Placement and Place On controls in the Appearance pane of the Text Inspector

Placement: A pop-up menu to set whether the image or texture is mapped to the 3D text object independently of other material layers or in combination with other material layers. There are two options:
- Independent: Activates controls (described below) for adjusting the position, scale, and rotation of this material layer’s image or texture.
- Shared: Disables the Placement controls for this material layer, and enables Shared Placement controls in the Options section of the Appearance pane. Use the Shared Placement controls (described in the next section below) to adjust the position, scale, and rotation of this material layer’s image or texture, as well as those of any other material layers set to Shared.
Place On: A pop-up menu to choose whether to apply the image or texture once to the entire text object, or to apply it individually to each glyph (character).
Side Placement: A pop-up menu to set how the mapped image or texture is applied to the sides of the text object. Choose one of the following options:
- Normal: The image or texture is mapped to the front of the text object as well as to the side.
- Turn 90°: The image or texture is mapped to the front of the text object; the same image is mapped to side the of text object, but is rotated by 90 degrees.
- Stretch From Side: The image or texture is mapped to the front of the text object, and to the side, and the pixels on the edge are repeated, so that the pattern appears to be stretched over the sides of the text object.
Position: Value sliders to offset the location where the image or texture is mapped to the object.
Scale: A slider to adjust the image or texture being mapped. Click the disclosure triangle to reveal separate X and Y scale sliders and the Scale With Font Size checkbox (described below).
Scale With Font Size: A checkbox (visible when you click the Scale disclosure triangle) that, when selected, causes the size of the applied image or texture to change proportionally whenever you modify the font size of the text object.
Rotation: A dial to rotate the mapped image or texture around the Z axis. Click the disclosure triangle to reveal separate dials for rotating around the X, Y, and Z axes.

Shared Placement controls

These controls appear in the Options section of the Inspector when one or more material layers are set to Shared placement. These controls are identical to the controls described in the Independent Placement controls above. Adjusting these controls adjusts the placement (position, scale, rotation, and so on) of all material layers set to Shared placement.

3D Text Inspector showing Shared Placement options

Global Placement controls

These settings modify all images that are affected by placement controls, independent or shared.

Randomize: A pop-up menu to apply randomly generated variations of the pattern placement on the different facets of the 3D text object. Choose an option from the pop-up menu to limit the randomness to just the sides, just the front and back, or to all facets.
Random Seed: A control to choose a different random number to change the random pattern placement. Click the button to the right of the seed value to have Motion select a random number, or enter your own number directly into the text field.

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3D text Placement controls in Motion

Independent Placement controls

Shared Placement controls

Global Placement controls