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Table of Contents

Welcome
What’s new in Motion
- 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
- - Convert a Motion project to a template
  - 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
- Create templates that conform to the Final Cut Pro color space
- Where are templates saved?
- Using masks in templates
- - General template guidelines
  - Tips for color processing in 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
- About filters and color processing
- Publish filter controls 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
- About color space
- Intro to color management
- Set the color processing method
- Manage automatic color processing
- View HDR media
- Adjust HDR media
- Choose HDR colors
- Display luminance values
- Tips for color management
- Intro to Cinematic mode video
- Move Cinematic clips to your Mac
- Enable Cinematic mode video adjustments
- Adjust focus points in Cinematic mode video clips in Motion
- Adjust depth of field in Cinematic mode video clips
- Intro to settings and shortcuts
- Touch Bar shortcuts
- Move assets to another computer
- Work with GPUs
Glossary
Copyright

Publish controls to Final Cut Pro from Motion

The following tasks describe how to publish parameters, compound parameters, rig controls, and other template elements. Published parameters appear in the Final Cut Pro inspector.

Publish a parameter control

In Motion, in the effect, transition, title, or generator template, select the image layer, filter, or behavior containing the parameter to publish.
In the selected item’s Inspector, do one of the following:
- Click the parameter’s Animation menu (the down arrow that appears when you place the pointer over the far-right side of the parameter row), then choose Publish.
  Note: If the parameters you want to publish are not visible, place the pointer over the right side of the parameter group row and click Show.
- Control-click the parameter’s name, then choose Publish from the shortcut menu.
Save the template.

When you apply the modified effect, transition, title, or generator to a clip in the Final Cut Pro timeline, the parameter control you published appears in the Final Cut Pro inspector, ready for adjustment.

Publish compound parameter controls (a parameter with nested subparameters)

In the template project in Motion, select the image layer or effects object containing the compound parameter (such as Rotation) to publish.
Open the selected item’s Inspector.
To publish a compound parameter to Final Cut Pro in a collapsed state (its subparameters hidden by a disclosure triangle), make sure the parameter’s disclosure triangle is closed.
To publish a compound parameter in an expanded state (disclosure triangle open and its subparameters exposed), make sure the parameter’s disclosure triangle is open.
Do one of the following:
- Control-click the parameter’s name, then choose Publish from the shortcut menu.
- Click the parameter’s Animation menu (the down arrow that appears when you place the pointer over the right side of the parameter row), then choose Publish.
Save the template.
The parameter and its subparameter controls are published. When the modified effect is applied to a clip in Final Cut Pro, the compound parameter retains its state (collapsed or expanded) at the time of publishing. If the result is not what you expected, click the disclosure triangle in the Final Cut Pro inspector to expand or collapse the subparameters manually.
Note: Examples of parameters with subparameters include Scale (with X, Y, and Z values) and Shear (with X and Y values).

Publish subparameter controls of a compound parameter

You can also publish specific subparameters of a compound parameter. This is a good way to limit an editor’s control over effects parameters in a Final Cut Pro project.

In the template project in Motion, select the image layer or effect object containing the subparameter to publish.
In the item’s Inspector, click the compound parameter’s disclosure triangle to show its subparameters.
For each parameter to publish, do one of the following:
- Click the parameter’s Animation menu (the down arrow that appears when you place the pointer over the right side of the parameter row), then choose Publish.
- Control-click the parameter’s name, then choose Publish from the shortcut menu.
Save the template.
The subparameter control is published. When you apply the modified effect to a clip in Final Cut Pro, the subparameter appears in the Final Cut Pro inspector.

Publish an activation checkbox for a filter or behavior

Publishing a filter or behavior activation checkbox lets Final Cut Pro users quickly turn an effect on or off.

In the template project in Motion, select the filter or behavior whose activation checkbox you want to publish.
In the Behaviors or Filters Inspector, do one of the following:
- In the heading row of the behavior or filter, click the Animation menu (the down arrow that appears when you place the pointer over the right side of the row), then choose Publish.
- Control-click the behavior or filter name, then choose Publish from the shortcut menu.
  Note: If you publish only the blue activation checkbox and no other parameters in the behavior or filter’s group of controls, only the checkbox is published.
Save the template.
When you apply the modified effect to a clip in Final Cut Pro, a checkbox with the name of the published filter or behavior appears in the Final Cut Pro inspector. Deselecting the checkbox disables the effect of that filter or behavior (including its constituent parameters).

Publish a rig control (widget)

In Motion, add a rig to the template, assigning specific parameters to the rig’s widget controls.
For more information about building rigs, creating widgets, and assigning parameters, see Intro to rigging in Motion.
Select the rig, then do one of the following in the Rig Inspector:
- In the Checkbox, Pop-up, or Slider widgets, click the Animation menu (the down arrow that appears when you place the pointer over the right side of the widget’s parameter row), then choose Publish from the shortcut menu.
- Control-click the Checkbox, Pop-up, or Slider parameter name, then choose Publish from the shortcut menu.
Save the template.
When you apply the modified effect, transition, title, or generator to a clip in the Final Cut Pro timeline, the rig control you published appears in the Final Cut Pro inspector.

Publish a gradient editor control

In the template project in Motion, select the image layer or effect object that contains the gradient editor to publish.
In the item’s Inspector, Control-click the Gradient parameter, then choose Publish from the shortcut menu.
Save the template.
When you apply the modified effect, transition, title, or generator to a clip in the Final Cut Pro timeline, the gradient editor control appears in the Final Cut Pro inspector.

Publish a filter’s onscreen controls

You can publish a filter’s onscreen controls so that Final Cut Pro users can make filter adjustments by dragging handles in the Final Cut Pro viewer.

In the template project in Motion, select the filter object.
In the Filters Inspector, select the Publish OSC checkbox.
Save the template.

When you apply the modified effect, transition, title, or generator to a clip in the Final Cut Pro timeline, the onscreen controls for the filter appear in the Final Cut Pro viewer.

Note: When you publish onscreen controls, their corresponding numeric controls in the Inspector are not published. You must publish Inspector parameter controls separately. See Publish a parameter control.

For more information about filter onscreen controls, see Adjust filters in the Motion canvas and Publish Motion filter controls to Final Cut Pro.

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