Motion’s expose commands provide a way of viewing multiple layers at once, “exploding” and rescaling them. The expose commands allow you to access all layers in a project in the canvas without having to drill down into the Layers list. Expose commands also let you select inactive layers at the playhead’s current position or jump to a selected layer’s In point.
Click anywhere in the Motion canvas.
Press X.
Layers active at the current position of the playhead temporarily scale down and spread out over the canvas. Each active layer is represented by a white frame in the canvas. Moving the pointer over a frame reveals the layer’s name.
Click a layer in the canvas.
The elements move and rescale back to their original positions and the layer you clicked is selected in the canvas.
Click anywhere in the Motion canvas.
Press Shift-X.
Layers in the project temporarily scale down and spread out over the canvas. Each layer in the project is represented by a white frame in the canvas. Moving the pointer over a frame shows the layer’s name.
Click a layer in the canvas.
The layers move and rescale back to their original positions; the layer is selected in the canvas; and the playhead moves to the middle frame of the selected layer.
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