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Table of Contents

Welcome
- What’s new in Motion 5.6.1
- What’s new in Motion 5.6
- What’s new in Motion 5.5
- 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?
- Analyze and record motion in a clip
- Track shapes, masks, and paint strokes
- Track the position of a filter or object
- Adjust onscreen trackers
- Load existing tracking data
- Use a range of frames for analysis
- 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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Preview and apply fonts in Motion

You can choose a font before you enter text, or just start typing text and then modify the font later. You can preview available fonts in the Library, then apply them from the Library, from the Format pane of the Text Inspector, or from the HUD.

Find a font in the Library

You can find specific fonts in the Library.

In Motion, do one of the following:

Select any font name or thumbnail in the font stack of the Library, then quickly type the first two letters of font name you want.
The font you seek is highlighted in the stack.
Click the magnifying glass icon at the bottom of the Library, then type the name of the font in the Search field.
Only fonts containing the search term appear in the stack.

Preview fonts in the Library

In the Library in Motion, click the Fonts category.
Click a font subcategory to preview available fonts.
Note: The first subcategory, All Fonts, contains all fonts from the other subcategories.
If you’re in list view, the font list appears in the stack. If you’re in icon view, font thumbnails appear in the stack, as shown in the image below.
In the stack, click a font thumbnail or name.
The font is displayed in the preview area, with the font name and type.

Preview and apply fonts in the canvas

If you’ve already added text to your project, you can preview different fonts in the canvas.

In Motion, select text in the canvas, Layers list, or Timeline.
In the Format pane of the Text Inspector, click the Font pop-up menu.
Drag the pointer up or down in the menu to preview fonts.
As you drag through the menu, the text changes in the canvas.
After you choose a font, release the mouse button.
Note: You can also use the wheel of a three-button mouse or a two-finger swipe on a trackpad to move up and down the menu.

For more information about controls in the Format pane, see Text Format controls in Motion.

Preview and apply fonts in the HUD

In Motion, select text in the canvas, Layers list, or Timeline.
In the HUD (press F7 if it’s not already open), click the Font pop-up menu.
Drag the pointer up or down in the menu to preview fonts.
As you drag through the menu, the text changes in the canvas.
After you choose a font, release the mouse button.
Note: You can also use the wheel of a three-button mouse or a two-finger swipe on a trackpad to move up and down the menu.

Change the font of text in your project by dragging a font type to the canvas

In the Library in Motion, click the Fonts category, then click a font subcategory.
Drag a font from the Library stack onto the existing text in the canvas.
As you drag the font over the text, a transparent thumbnail of the font appears and the pointer becomes a green add pointer (+). When you release the mouse button, the text is changed to the selected font.

Change the font of text in your project using the Apply button

In the Motion canvas, Layers list, or Timeline, select a text layer to modify.
In the Library, click the Fonts category, then click a font subcategory.
In the stack, click a font.
In the preview area, click Apply.
The text is changed to the selected font.

Motion uses supported fonts (OpenType, Type 1 or PostScript, and TrueType) located in the following folders on your computer:

/Library/Fonts/
/Users/username/Library/Fonts/

For information on installing fonts, see macOS Help (in the Finder, choose Help > macOS Help).

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