Touch Bar shortcuts in Motion

Open Other

Opens a dialog to select an existing project that doesn’t appear in the Project Browser.

Import As Project

Opens a dialog to select media files to include in a new project.

Cancel

Closes the Project Browser and any open dialogs while leaving the Motion application open.

Open

Opens the project selected in the Project Browser.

Tools

Opens tools for selecting and manipulating objects. See Tools, below.

New Project

Opens the Project Browser (if Create New Project is selected in the General pane of Motion Settings).

Import

Opens options for importing media or importing a file from Image Playground into your project.

View

When you select a media clip in the import dialog, this button (in the Control Strip portion of the Touch Bar) activates controls to play or scrub the clip before you import it.

Add Camera

Adds a camera to your project.

Add Light

Adds a light to your project.

Project Navigation

Opens project navigation controls. See Project navigation, below.

Tools

Opens tools for selecting and manipulating objects. See Tools, below.

Timing

Opens timing controls to change or mark In and Out points, and to play a selection. See Timing, below.

Project Navigation

Opens project navigation controls. See Project navigation, below.

Close

Returns you to the previous Touch Bar screen.

Project Navigation bar

Displays your project in a timeline bar with a playhead. Drag the playhead to navigate through your project. Drag the left end of the bar to mark a new play range In point; drag the right end of the bar to mark a new play range Out point.

Snap

Activates snapping in the Project Navigation bar. When snapping is on, drag the playhead in the bar to snap to a selected object’s beginning or end, or to a project marker. (The playhead doesn’t snap to object markers.) When you drag either end of the bar, the play range snaps to the location of the playhead.

Close

Returns you to the previous Touch Bar screen.

Go to In Point

Positions the playhead at the beginning (In point) of the selected object.

Go to Out Point

Positions the playhead at the end (Out point) of the selected object.

Mark In

Sets a new In point for the selected object.

Mark Out

Sets a new Out point for the selected object.

Play Selection

Plays all layers as a composite based on the duration of the selected layer.

Tools

Opens tools for selecting and manipulating objects. See Tools, below.

Group

Nests selected objects in a group.

Project Navigation

Opens project navigation controls. See Project navigation.

Close

Returns you to the previous Touch Bar screen.

Select/Transform

Activates the Select/Transform tool, allowing you to scale, move, or rotate objects.

3D Transform

Activates the 3D Transform tool, allowing you to manipulate any 2D or 3D object in 3D space.

Anchor Point

Activates the Anchor Point tool, allowing you to reposition a layer’s anchor point.

Drop Shadow

Activates the Drop Shadow tool, allowing you to modify the direction or offset of a layer’s drop shadow.

Distort tool

Activates the Distort tool, allowing you to shear or distort a layer.

Crop tool

Activates the Crop tool, allowing you to crop a layer.

Edit Points

Activates the Edit Points tool, allowing you to adjust points and Bezier handles for complex masks, shapes, and motion paths. This button is displayed only when a Bezier or B-Spline shape is selected.

Edit Shape (Rectangle or Circle)

Activates the Edit Shape tool, allowing you to modify the size, shape, feathering, position, or rotation of simple shapes. This button is displayed only when a simple shape is selected.

Transform Glyph

Activates the Transform Glyph tool, allowing you to modify selected text characters (glyphs). The Transform Glyph button appears only when text is selected.

Adjust Item

Activates the Adjust Item tool, allowing you to modify specific parameters such as the shape of a replicator or the start and end points of a gradient.

Rectangle

Activates the Rectangle tool, allowing you to draw a rectangle shape.

Circle

Activates the Circle tool, allowing you to draw a circle or ellipse shape.

Line

Activates the Line tool, allowing you to draw a line shape.

Bezier

Activates the Bezier tool, allowing you to draw a Bezier shape created with Bezier points and tangent handles.

B-Spline

Activates the B-Spline tool, allowing you to draw a B-Spline shape created with B-Spline points.

Paint Stroke

Activates the Paint Stroke tool, allowing you to paint shapes in the canvas.

Text

Activates the Text tool, allowing you to add text in the canvas.

3D Text

Activates the 3D text tool, allowing you to create textured, dimensional text.

Rectangle Mask

Activates the Rectangle Mask tool, allowing you to add a rectangle-shaped mask to a layer.

Circle Mask

Activates the Circle Mask tool, allowing you to add a circle-shaped or ellipse-shaped mask to a layer.

Freehand Mask

Activates the Freehand Mask tool, allowing you to add a hand-drawn mask to a layer.

Bezier Mask

Activates the Bezier Mask tool, allowing you to add a mask created with Bezier points and tangent handles to a layer.

B-Spline Mask

Activates the B-Spline Mask tool, allowing you to add a mask created with B-Spline points to a layer.

Pan

Activates the Pan tool, allowing you to pan the canvas.

Zoom

Activates the Zoom tool, allowing you to zoom in on the canvas.

Walk 3D View

Activates the Walk 3D View tool, allowing you to position a camera in 3D space as you would in a computer game, using a keyboard-and-mouse navigation method.

Done

Returns you to the previous Touch Bar screen.

Tools

When the Text tool is active, this control displays the tool buttons described in Tools, above.

Text Alignment and Appearance

Activates controls for text alignment, style, and appearance. See Text alignment and appearance, below.

Text Size

Activates a slider for text size. See Text size, below.

Text Kerning

Activates a slider for text kerning. See Text kerning, below.

3D Text

Switches the selected text from 2D to 3D (and vice versa).

Text Color

Activates color picker, hue, brightness, and saturation controls. See Text color, below.

Project Navigation

Opens project navigation controls. See Project navigation.

Close

Returns you to the previous Touch Bar screen.

Align Text

Aligns text to the left, center, or right.

Bold Text

Makes the selected text object bold (if available for the selected font).

Italic Text

Makes the selected text object italic (if available for the selected font).

Text Face

Turns the text Face parameter on or off.

Text Outline

Turns the text Outline parameter on or off.

Text Glow

Turns the text Glow parameter on or off.

Text Drop Shadow

Turns the text Drop Shadow parameter on or off.

Close

Returns you to the previous Touch Bar screen.

Text Size slider

Drag the slider to change the size of the text.

Close

Returns you to the previous Touch Bar screen.

Text Kerning Slider

Drag the slider to increase or decrease the space between the text characters. (The text insertion point must be positioned between text characters in the canvas to access the kerning control.)

Close

Returns you to the previous Touch Bar screen.

Active Color

Displays the active color, based on your current color settings.

Brightness

Available when the Hue color control is active, turns on a slider to adjust brightness of the selected text object.

Saturation

Available when the Hue color control is active, turns on a slider to adjust saturation of the selected text object.

Hue/Swatch Color

Switches between the Hue color control and Swatch color control. Drag or tap the controls to change text color.

To change the color of an individual text character, select the character in the canvas (or position the text insertion point to the right of the character), then tap or drag the color control. To change the color of multiple (adjacent) text characters, select the characters in the canvas, then tap or drag the control.