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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Motion interface

The Motion interface is divided into several functional areas.

Project Browser

When you open Motion, the Project Browser appears. Use this window to create new projects or open existing projects.

Motion window

After you open a project via the Project Browser, the Motion window appears. Use this window to build, modify, and preview your motion graphics projects.

By default, the Library and Inspector appear on the left side of the window. Choose Window > Window Layout, to set your workspace to one of two layouts:

Classic: The Library and Inspector appear on the left side of the Motion window, and the Timing pane is full width. Use this layout when working heavily in the Timeline, Keyframe Editor, or Audio Editor.
Note: If you have two displays connected to your computer, you can show the Timing pane (or canvas) on the second display to maximize your workspace. See Use a second display in Motion.
Cinema: The Library and Inspector appear on the right side of the Motion window, and the Project pane is full height. Use this layout when working with many layers and groups.

The Motion window is divided into several functional areas, described in detail below.

Library

The Library, located on the left side of the Motion window, contains effects, content, presets, behaviors, filters, and other elements available in Motion. You can expand the built-in Library content by adding fonts, music, or photos, or by saving content and effects that you create in Motion.

When you select an item in the Library, a visual preview appears in the top-left corner of the Motion window. This preview area also contains text information for the selected item, such as a description of the behavior, filter, or generator.

Library showing preview area, the Library list, and the Library stack

Inspector

When you select an object in your Motion project—an image, video clip, or effect—its parameter controls become available in the Inspector, located on the left side of the Motion window, ready for adjustment.

There are four Inspector categories, each of which displays parameter controls for the selected object:

Properties Inspector: Contains controls for setting basic attributes of the selected object, such as position, scale, and blending.
Behaviors Inspector: Contains controls for adjusting attributes of behaviors—animation and simulation effects that you can apply to objects in your project.
Filters Inspector: Contains controls for adjusting attributes of filters—visual treatments that you can apply to objects in your project.
Object Inspector: Contains controls that vary depending on the type of object selected. The name of this Inspector is also context-sensitive, changing depending on the type of object selected, such as Camera, Text, or Shape.

If you want the Inspector to remain locked to a specific pane for a selected object, click the pin button in the preview area (at the top of the Inspector). Then, when you select another object, the pinned Inspector does not change.

Inspector showing pin button to lock the Inspector to the selected object

Heads-up display (HUD)

The most commonly used Inspector controls are also available in the heads-up display (HUD), a floating window that you can show or hide. See Transform layers in the HUD in Motion.

Project pane

The Project pane contains three lists, each of which provides access to a different aspect of your project:

Layers list: Displays the hierarchy of objects (groups, layers, cameras, lights, behaviors, filters, and so on) in your project.
Media list: Shows the files imported into your project.
Audio list: Provides access to, and control of, audio files in your project.

More than simple lists of items in a project, these panes let you organize key attributes of a motion graphics composition, including the stacking order of image layers, audio settings, and source media settings.

Canvas

The canvas is the visual workspace where you modify and arrange objects in your composition. What you see in the canvas is what is exported when you share your project.

Toolbar

The toolbar at the top of the Motion window contains controls to import media, add effects and other objects to your project, display interface components, and export your finished project.

To arrange toolbar controls to your liking, Control-click the toolbar, choose Customize Toolbar from the shortcut menu, then drag items from the window that appears to the toolbar. Use the Show pop-up menu in the customization window to display toolbar controls without their names, or to reduce the size of toolbar controls.

Canvas toolbar

In the canvas toolbar, located in the center of the Motion window (under the canvas), you can access tools for creating and transforming objects. There are tools to manipulate objects in 2D or 3D space, to zoom or pan in the canvas, and to create text, shapes, and masks.

Timing toolbar

In the timing toolbar, located immediately below the canvas toolbar, you can access controls for project playback (transport controls) and keyframe recording. The timing toolbar also contains buttons to show or hide elements in the Timing pane.

Timing pane

The Timing pane, located at the bottom of the Motion window, lets you view and modify the time component of a project’s contents. There are three views to control different timing aspects of a project:

Video Timeline: Provides an overview of objects in the project and how they’re laid out over time.
Audio Timeline: Provides an overview of audio components in the project and how they’re laid out over time.
Keyframe Editor: Displays the animation curves for animated parameters and effects.

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