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Table of Contents

Welcome
What’s new
- 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 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
Copyright

Add template markers in Motion

To create a Build In, Build Out, Project Loop End or Poster Frame marker, you must first add a project marker to a Motion project, then change its type in the Edit Marker dialog. To create a Text Edit marker, you must first add an object marker, then change its type in the Edit Marker dialog.

Mark the first frame of a template’s intro section

When you add a “Build In – Mandatory” marker or “Build In – Optional” marker to a template, frames between the beginning of the project and the Build In marker play (in Final Cut Pro) at the same speed as in the original Motion template. The “Build In – Optional” marker publishes a checkbox that disables playback of the intro section when deselected.

In Motion, move the playhead to the frame where you want the marker to appear, then press Shift-M.
A green project marker appears in the Timeline ruler, and a (subtle) green vertical line appears in the mini-Timeline.
Do one of the following:
- Position the playhead over the marker, then choose Mark > Markers > Edit Marker.
- Double-click the marker.
- Control-click the marker, then choose Edit Marker from the shortcut menu.
In the Edit Marker dialog, choose one of the following from the Type pop-up menu:
- Build In – Mandatory: Choose this marker type to play the frames between the beginning of the project and the “Build In – Mandatory” marker at the same speed as in the original Motion template. Beyond the marker, the effect is time-stretched (or shrunk) to match the duration of the Final Cut Pro clip.
  This intro is always played, regardless of where the template is placed in the Final Cut Pro timeline.
- Build In – Optional: Choose this marker type to play the frames between the beginning of the project and the “Build In – Optional” marker at the same speed as in the original Motion template and to include a checkbox to disable the intro’s playback.
  The project marker becomes a Build In marker, and the Timeline ruler displays a dashed gold line over the affected region.
  When a “Build In – Optional” marker is added to a template, a Build In checkbox is published (added to the Published Parameters list in the Publishing pane of the Project Inspector). After the template is added to a Final Cut Pro project, the Build In checkbox appears in the Final Cut Pro inspector. When the checkbox is deselected, frames before the marker are not played.

Mark the last frame of a template’s outro section

When you add a “Build Out – Mandatory” marker or a “Build Out – Optional” marker to a template, frames between the Build Out marker and the end of the project play (in Final Cut Pro) at the same speed as in the original Motion template. The “Build Out – Optional” marker publishes a checkbox that disables playback of the outro section when deselected.

In Motion, move the playhead to the frame where you want the marker to appear, then press Shift-M.
A green project marker appears in the Timeline ruler, and a (subtle) green vertical line appears in the mini-Timeline.
Do one of the following:
- Position the playhead over the marker, then choose Mark > Markers > Edit Marker.
- Double-click the marker.
- Control-click the marker, then choose Edit Marker from the shortcut menu.
In the Edit Marker dialog, choose one of the following from the Type pop-up menu:
- Build Out – Mandatory: Choose this marker type to play the frames between the “Build Out – Mandatory” marker and the end of the project at the same speed as in the original Motion template. Prior to the marker, the effect is time-stretched (or shrunk) to match the duration of the Final Cut Pro clip.
  This outro is always played, regardless of where the template is placed in the Final Cut Pro timeline.
- Build Out – Optional: Choose this marker type to play the frames between the beginning of the project and the “Build In – Optional” marker at the same speed as in the original Motion template and to include a checkbox to disable the intro’s playback in the template.
  The project marker becomes a Build Out marker, and the Timeline ruler displays a dashed gold line over the affected region.
  When a “Build Out – Optional” marker is added to a template, a Build Out checkbox is published (added to the Published Parameters list in the Publishing pane of the Project Inspector). After the template is added to a Final Cut Pro project, the Build In checkbox appears in the Final Cut Pro inspector. When the checkbox is deselected, frames before the marker are time-stretched and frames after the marker are not played.

Specify the frame where the template begins looping playback

You can add a Project Loop End marker to instruct Final Cut Pro to begin looping playback at a specific frame. When playback reaches this frame, the project plays from the beginning of the project or from the Build In marker, if present. Frames beyond the Project Loop End marker are never played.

In Motion, move the playhead to the frame where you want the marker to appear, then press Shift-M.
A green project marker appears in the Timeline ruler, and a (subtle) green vertical line appears in the mini-Timeline.
Do one of the following:
- Position the playhead over the marker, then choose Mark > Markers > Edit Marker.
- Double-click the marker.
- Control-click the marker, then choose Edit Marker from the shortcut menu.
In the Edit Marker dialog, click the Type pop-up menu, then choose Project Loop End.
The project marker becomes a Project Loop End marker, and the Timeline ruler displays a dashed gold line over the affected region.

Setting a marker type to Project Loop End changes any marker set to a Build Out type back to Standard. Similarly, if a Project Loop End marker exists, adding a Build Out marker resets the loop marker back to Standard.

Tip: Adding a loop marker to the second frame in a template makes the effect time-invariant—the first frame of the project loops forever. This can be useful for generators that do not contain animation (such as a solid color generator), or for filters that aren’t animated by default (such as a color-correction filter).

Note: Templates with applied Time filters (Echo, Scrub, Strobe, Trails, or WideTime) should not use Loop markers, because unexpected timing results can occur.

Set the frame to be used as the template’s thumbnail in the Final Cut Pro browser

You can add a Poster Frame marker to instruct Final Cut Pro to use a specific frame of a template as the template thumbnail in the Final Cut Pro Effects browser, Transitions browser, or Titles browser.

In Motion, move the playhead to the frame you want to use as the poster frame, then press Shift-M.
A green project marker appears in the Timeline ruler, and a (subtle) green vertical line appears in the mini-Timeline.
Do one of the following:
- Position the playhead over the marker, then choose Mark > Markers > Edit Marker.
- Double-click the marker.
- Control-click the marker, then choose Edit Marker from the shortcut menu.
In the Edit Marker dialog, click the Type pop-up menu, then choose Poster Frame.
Although the project marker appearance does not change, it becomes a Poster Frame marker (a tooltip appears if you move the pointer over the marker).
If a Poster Frame marker exists, adding a new Poster Frame marker resets the first marker to Standard.

Specify a frame as an ideal text edit point in a title template

You can add Text Edit markers to specify the optimal edit points for text in a title template. For example, if your title animates offscreen, you can add a Text Edit marker to quickly navigate to a frame where the text is visible in the Final Cut Pro viewer.

In Motion, move the playhead to the frame where you want the marker.
Select the text to add the marker to, then do one of the following:
- Choose Mark > Markers > Add Marker.
- Press M.
  A red object marker is added to the timebar of the selected object.
Do one of the following:
- Position the playhead over the marker, then choose Mark > Markers > Edit Marker.
- Double-click the marker.
- Control-click the marker, then choose Edit Marker from the shortcut menu.
In the Edit Marker dialog, click the Type pop-up menu, then choose Text Edit.
Although the object marker appearance does not change, it becomes a Text Edit marker.
You can add multiple Text Edit markers to a template.

In the Final Cut Pro timeline, double-click the title to enter text-edit mode. In the viewer, use the Next Text Layer and Previous Text Layer buttons to navigate between Text Edit markers. For more information about working with titles in Final Cut Pro, see the Final Cut Pro X User Guide.

Move a marker

In Motion, drag the marker to a new position in the Timeline ruler or timebar.
When you drag the marker, the current frame is displayed above the pointer.

Change the marker type

In Motion, do one of the following:
- Position the playhead over the marker, then choose Mark > Markers > Edit Marker.
- Double-click the marker.
- Control-click the marker, then choose Edit Marker from the shortcut menu.
In the Edit Marker dialog, click the Type pop-up menu, then choose a marker type.
The Build In and Build Out markers appear as small green arrows in the Timeline ruler. The Project Loop Out marker appears as a small orange arrow. At the top of the ruler, the area specified as the intro, outro, or loop section displays a gold glow.
For more information on the Edit Marker dialog, see Intro to Timeline markers in Motion.

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Motion User Guide