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Table of Contents

Welcome
- 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?
- 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
Glossary
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Slip, slide, and trim audio in Motion

The Audio Timeline provides a view of audio elements over time. The audio tracks appear as green bars with the audio waveform superimposed on the bar, and can be edited like other objects in the Timeline. The Audio Timeline uses the same ruler, buttons, and other controls as the Timeline. For more information on the Timeline interface, see Intro to the Timeline in Motion.

When you import an audio file, its start point is placed at the start of the project or at the current playhead position (depending on the setting of the Create Layers At parameter in Motion Preferences—see If it’s your first import in Motion).

You can adjust audio tracks in the Timeline using standard nonlinear editing techniques:

Slide an audio track in the Audio Timeline or mini-Timeline so the track starts playing at a different point in time.
Slip a trimmed audio track in the Audio Timeline or mini-Timeline so a different range of media plays at the same location.
Trim an audio track in the Audio Timeline or mini-Timeline to reduce track length or to have the media start or end at a specific point in time.

Each of these editing techniques is nondestructive—it doesn’t alter the audio source file on your computer or external storage device.

Show the Audio Timeline

In Motion, do one of the following:

Choose Window > Audio Timeline (or press Command-9).
Click the Show/Hide Audio Timeline button in the timing toolbar (above the Timeline).

Slide an audio track

Slide an audio track to change its position in the Timeline.

In Motion, do one of the following:

In the Audio Timeline, drag an audio track’s green bar left or right.
Select an audio track in the Audio list, then in the mini-Timeline, drag the track’s green bar to the left or right.

Slip an audio track

Slip an audio track to change the range of playable media. When you slip an audio track, its In and Out points remain unchanged in the Timeline, but the playable portion of the audio file changes.

In Motion, do one of the following:

In the Audio Timeline, press and hold the Option key, then drag left or right to slip the portion of the audio file.
As you drag, the pointer becomes a slip pointer, a dimmed bar representing the full range of the audio clip appears over the green bar, and a tooltip appears, showing the In and Out points of the audio clip.
In the Audio list, select a track, then press and hold the Option key and drag left or right over the green bar in the mini-Timeline.
As you drag, the pointer becomes a slip pointer, a dimmed bar representing the full range of the audio clip appears over the green bar, and a tooltip appears, showing the In and Out points of the audio clip.

Note: You can only slip media that has had its In or Out points trimmed, leaving unused audio available on either side or both sides of the green bar.

Trim an audio track visually

Trim an audio track to reduce track length or to have it start or end at a specific point in time.

In Motion, do one of the following:

In the Audio Timeline, place the pointer over the beginning or end of a green bar until the trim pointer appears, then drag left or right.
As you drag, a tooltip shows you the new In or Out point and the duration of the modified track.
In the Audio list, select a track, place the pointer over the beginning or end of the green bar in the mini-Timeline until the trim pointer appears, then drag left or right.
As you drag, a tooltip shows you the new In or Out point and the duration of the modified track.

Trim an audio track numerically

In the Audio list in Motion, select an audio track.
Open the Properties Inspector and show the Timing parameters.
Adjust the In, Out, or Duration value sliders

As you adjust the value sliders, the green bars in the Audio Timeline and mini-Timeline are updated.

Trim an audio track from the Mark menu

In the Audio list in Motion, select an audio track, then do one of the following:
- Change the track’s start point: Move the playhead to the frame you want, then choose Mark > Move Selected In Point.
- Change the track’s end point: Move the playhead to the frame you want, then choose Mark > Move Selected Out Point.

Helpful?

Motion User Guide

Slip, slide, and trim audio in Motion

Show the Audio Timeline

Slide an audio track

Slip an audio track

Trim an audio track visually

Trim an audio track numerically

Trim an audio track from the Mark menu