Motion User Guide
- Welcome
 - What’s new
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- Intro to basic compositing
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- Intro to transforming layers
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- Intro to transforming layers in the canvas
 - Transform layer properties in the canvas
 - Transform tools
 - Change layer position, scale, or rotation
 - Move a layer’s anchor point
 - Add a drop shadow to a layer
 - Distort or shear a layer
 - Crop a layer
 - Modify shape or mask points
 - Transform text glyphs and other object attributes
 - Align layers in the canvas
 
 - Transform layers in the HUD
 - Transform 2D layers in 3D space
 
 
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- Intro to behaviors
 - Behaviors versus keyframes
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- Intro to behavior types
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- Intro to Parameter behaviors
 - Audio behavior
 - Average behavior
 - Clamp behavior
 - Custom behavior
 - Add a Custom behavior
 - Exponential behavior
 - Link behavior
 - Logarithmic behavior
 - MIDI behavior
 - Add a MIDI behavior
 - Negate behavior
 - Oscillate behavior
 - Create a decaying oscillation
 - Overshoot behavior
 - Quantize behavior
 - Ramp behavior
 - Randomize behavior
 - Rate behavior
 - Reverse behavior
 - Stop behavior
 - Track behavior
 - Wriggle behavior
 
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- Intro to Simulation behaviors
 - Align to Motion behavior
 - Attracted To behavior
 - Attractor behavior
 - Drag behavior
 - Drift Attracted To behavior
 - Drift Attractor behavior
 - Edge Collision behavior
 - Gravity behavior
 - Orbit Around behavior
 - Random Motion behavior
 - Repel behavior
 - Repel From behavior
 - Rotational Drag behavior
 - Spring behavior
 - Vortex behavior
 - Wind behavior
 
 - Additional behaviors
 
 
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- Intro to using generators
 - Add a generator
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- Intro to image generators
 - Caustics generator
 - Cellular generator
 - Checkerboard generator
 - Clouds generator
 - Color Solid generator
 - Concentric Polka Dots generator
 - Concentric Shapes generator
 - Gradient generator
 - Grid generator
 - Japanese Pattern generator
 - Lens Flare generator
 - Manga Lines generator
 - Membrane generator
 - Noise generator
 - One Color Ray generator
 - Op Art 1 generator
 - Op Art 2 generator
 - Op Art 3 generator
 - Overlapping Circles generator
 - Radial Bars generator
 - Soft Gradient generator
 - Spirals generator
 - Spiral Drawing generator
 - Use Spiral Drawing onscreen controls
 - Star generator
 - Stripes generator
 - Sunburst generator
 - Truchet Tiles generator
 - Two Color Ray generator
 
 - Save a custom generator
 
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- Intro to filters
 - Browse and preview filters
 - Apply or remove filters
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- Intro to filter types
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- Intro to Color filters
 - Brightness filter
 - Channel Mixer filter
 - Color Adjustments filter
 - Color Balance filter
 - Example: Color-balance two layers
 - Color Curves filter
 - Use the Color Curves filter
 - Color Reduce filter
 - Color Wheels filter
 - Use the Color Wheels filter
 - Colorize filter
 - Contrast filter
 - Custom LUT filter
 - Use the Custom LUT filter
 - Gamma filter
 - Gradient Colorize filter
 - HDR Tools filter
 - Hue/Saturation filter
 - Hue/Saturation Curves filter
 - Use the Hue/Saturation Curves filter
 - Levels filter
 - Negative filter
 - OpenEXR Tone Map filter
 - Sepia filter
 - Threshold filter
 - Tint filter
 
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- Intro to Distortion filters
 - Black Hole filter
 - Bulge filter
 - Bump Map filter
 - Disc Warp filter
 - Droplet filter
 - Earthquake filter
 - Fisheye filter
 - Flop filter
 - Fun House filter
 - Glass Block filter
 - Glass Distortion
 - Insect Eye filter
 - Mirror filter
 - Page Curl filter
 - Poke filter
 - Polar filter
 - Refraction filter
 - Ring Lens filter
 - Ripple filter
 - Scrape filter
 - Sliced Scale filter
 - Use the Sliced Scale filter
 - Sphere filter
 - Starburst filter
 - Stripes filter
 - Target filter
 - Tiny Planet filter
 - Twirl filter
 - Underwater filter
 - Wave filter
 
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- Intro to Stylize filters
 - Add Noise filter
 - Bad Film filter
 - Bad TV filter
 - Circle Screen filter
 - Circles filter
 - Color Emboss filter
 - Comic filter
 - Crystallize filter
 - Edges filter
 - Extrude filter
 - Fill filter
 - Halftone filter
 - Hatched Screen filter
 - Highpass filter
 - Indent filter
 - Line Art filter
 - Line Screen filter
 - MinMax filter
 - Noise Dissolve filter
 - Pixellate filter
 - Posterize filter
 - Relief filter
 - Slit Scan filter
 - Slit Tunnel filter
 - Texture Screen filter
 - Vignette filter
 - Wavy Screen filter
 
 
 - About filters and color processing
 - Publish filter controls to Final Cut Pro
 - Using filters on alpha channels
 - Filter performance
 - Save custom filters
 
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- Intro to 360-degree video
 - 360-degree projects
 - Create 360-degree projects
 - Add 360-degree video to a project
 - 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
 
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- Intro to settings and shortcuts
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- Intro to Keyboard shortcuts
 - Use function keys
 - General keyboard shortcuts
 - Audio list keyboard shortcuts
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- Tools keyboard shortcuts
 - Transform tool keyboard shortcuts
 - Select/Transform tool keyboard shortcuts
 - Crop tool keyboard shortcuts
 - Edit Points tool keyboard shortcuts
 - Edit shape tools keyboard shortcuts
 - Pan and Zoom tools keyboard shortcuts
 - Shape tools keyboard shortcuts
 - Bezier tool keyboard shortcuts
 - B-Spline tool keyboard shortcuts
 - Paint Stroke tool keyboard shortcuts
 - Text tool keyboard shortcuts
 - Shape mask tools keyboard shortcuts
 - Bezier Mask tool keyboard shortcuts
 - B-Spline Mask tool keyboard shortcuts
 
 - Transport control keyboard shortcuts
 - View option keyboard shortcuts
 - HUD keyboard shortcuts
 - Inspector keyboard shortcuts
 - Keyframe Editor keyboard shortcuts
 - Layers keyboard shortcuts
 - Library keyboard shortcuts
 - Media list keyboard shortcuts
 - Timeline keyboard shortcuts
 - Keyframing keyboard shortcuts
 - Shape and Mask keyboard shortcuts
 - 3D keyboard shortcuts
 - Miscellaneous keyboard shortcuts
 
 - Touch Bar shortcuts
 - Move assets to another computer
 - Work with GPUs
 
 - Glossary
 - Copyright and trademarks
 

Select characters with the Transform Glyph tool
Before you can transform a glyph, you must select it using the Transform Glyph tool in the canvas toolbar. You can select a single glyph or multiple glyphs in a text layer. When more than one glyph is selected, the last Shift-selected glyph is enclosed in a bounding box with transform handles. This is known as the focused glyph. Each of the other glyphs in the selection are enclosed in a bounding box without transform handles. Any selected glyph (focused or not) is affected by transforms applied to the focused glyph.
Note: If you use the Transform Glyph tool to distort an appearance attribute of a glyph (Face, Outline, Glow, Drop Shadow), only one glyph can be selected at a time.
Select a single glyph
In Motion, select a text layer in the Layers list, canvas, or Timeline.
In the canvas toolbar, click and hold the transform tools pop-up menu, then choose Transform Glyph.

A bounding box with transform handles appears around the first glyph in the text. (Or, if a different glyph was previously selected, the bounding box surrounds that glyph).
If you want to select a different glyph in the text layer, click another glyph in the canvas.
Select all glyphs in a text layer
In Motion, select a text layer in the Layers list, canvas, or Timeline.
In the canvas toolbar, click and hold the transform tools pop-up menu, then choose Transform Glyph.

Ensure that the Attribute pop-up menu in the HUD is set to Transform Glyph (because the other settings in the menu allow only one glyph selection at a time).
A glyph is selected in the canvas.
Choose Edit > Select All (or press Command-A).
All glyphs are selected.
Select multiple glyphs in a text layer
In Motion, select a text layer in the Layers list, canvas, or Timeline.
In the canvas toolbar, click the transform tools pop-up menu, then choose Transform Glyph.

Ensure that the Attribute pop-up menu in the HUD is set to Transform Glyph (because the other settings in the menu allow only one glyph selection at a time).
A glyph is selected in the canvas.
Do one of the following:
Select contiguous glyphs: Pressing and holding the Shift key, click in the canvas to select additional adjacent glyphs; or drag in the canvas to select adjacent glyphs.

Select noncontiguous glyphs: Pressing and holding the Command key, click to select nonadjacent glyphs.
Although the onscreen controls appear only around the focused (last selected) glyph, any glyph surrounded by a box is affected when you adjust the onscreen controls.
Deselect a group of selected glyphs
In Motion, choose Edit > Deselect All (or press Shift-Command-A).
Any previously selected glyphs are deselected.
Select a glyph in another text layer
With an active Transform Glyph tool selection in Motion, click a different text layer in the Layers list or Timeline.
The selection shifts to the second text layer.
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