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Overview
Materials overview 3D text objects in Motion have properties designed to give them a natural…

Apply materials to 3D text


Material controls


  • Motion basics
    • What is Motion?
    • Motion workflow
    • Motion interface at a glance
    • Basic components of Motion
    • About mice, keys, and multi-touch devices
  • Create and manage projects
    • Overview
    • Create a new project
    • Open an existing project
    • Search for projects using the Finder
    • Bypass the Project Browser
    • Create, edit, and delete project presets
    • Save, autosave, and revert projects
    • Use templates
      • Overview
      • Open a template
      • Replace template media using drop zones
        • Overview
        • Create drop zones
        • Modify drop zone images
        • Drop zone controls
        • Control and expose drop zones
      • Template guidelines
      • Organize templates in the Project Browser
    • Modify project properties
      • Overview
      • Edit project properties
      • Properties Inspector controls
      • About project frame size
  • Add and manage content
    • Overview
    • Import media files
      • Overview
      • If it’s your first import
      • Import standard media files
      • Import layered Photoshop files
      • Import image sequences
      • Sort and search
      • Manage folders and files
      • About media file types
        • Supported media formats
        • About QuickTime movies
        • About high-resolution still image files
        • Set the import size of large still images
        • About image sequences
        • About PDF files
        • About alpha channels
        • About audio files
        • About text files
    • Add Library content
      • Overview
      • Categories of Library content
      • Add Library content
      • Add iTunes and photo files
      • Sort and search
      • Manage Library folders and files
      • When Library media becomes unavailable
      • Work with Library themes
      • Save custom objects to the Library
    • Manage source media
      • Overview
      • View source media information
        • Overview
        • Display, sort, and search the Media list
      • Reveal source media
      • Adjust source media parameters
        • Display the Media Inspector
        • Source media controls in the Media Inspector
      • About duplicating and deleting media files
      • Exchange media in a project
      • Reconnect offline media
        • Reconnect offline media files
        • About networked devices and removable media
  • Play back projects
    • Overview
    • View and play back a project
      • Overview
      • Play back a project
      • Optimize playback using RAM Preview
      • Expand the Canvas to full-screen player mode
      • View the Canvas or Timing pane on a second display
    • View and adjust project timing
      • Overview
      • View project timing information
      • Navigate a project using the timing display
      • Change the duration of a project
    • Define the play range
    • About project playback performance
  • Work in a basic project
    • Overview
    • Select and organize layers
      • Layers list overview
      • Select layers and groups
      • Show and hide the Layers list
      • Expose layers in the Canvas
      • Move a layer or group forward or backward
      • Reorganize layers and groups
      • Show, hide, solo, or lock layers and groups
      • Nest layers and groups
        • Overview
        • Collapse and expand group hierarchies
        • Group, ungroup, and nest layers
        • Constrain group size
      • Layers list controls
      • Layers list shortcut menu
      • Customize the Layers list
    • Transform layers
      • Overview
      • Transform layers in the Canvas
        • Overview
        • Transform layer properties in the Canvas
        • 2D transform tools
        • Change a layer’s position, scale, or rotation
        • Move a layer’s anchor point
        • Add a drop shadow to a layer
        • Distort or shear a layer
        • Crop a layer
        • Modify the control points of a shape or mask
        • Transform text glyphs and other object attributes
        • Align layers in the Canvas
      • Transform layers in the Inspector
        • Transform layers in the Properties Inspector
        • Properties Inspector controls
      • Transform layers in the HUD
    • Adjust opacity and blending
      • Modify layer opacity
      • Layer blending
        • Overview
        • Change a layer’s blend mode
        • How do blend modes work?
        • How do blend modes affect groups?
        • Types of blend modes
        • Blend modes that manipulate alpha channels
    • View and navigate in the Canvas
      • Zoom or pan the Canvas
      • View dynamic Canvas feedback
      • Custom Canvas view options
      • Advanced Quality settings
      • Manage layout with rulers and guides
  • Work in a 3D project
    • Overview
    • About 3D coordinates
      • Overview
      • About relative coordinates
    • Transform layers in 3D space
    • 3D intersection
      • Create 3D intersection
      • About 2D and 3D group properties
    • Add cameras to create 3D environments
      • 3D cameras overview
      • Add a camera
      • About cameras and views
      • Work with camera views and overlays
        • View 3D overlays
        • Camera pop-up menu
        • 3D view tools
        • 3D compass
        • Inset view
        • 3D grid
        • 3D scene icons
      • Viewport layouts
      • Work with multiple cameras
      • Scale, position, and animate cameras
      • Isolate an object in the Canvas
      • Controls in the Camera Inspector
      • Depth of field
        • Overview
        • Render depth of field effects
        • Depth of Field controls
      • Camera behaviors
        • Overview
        • Dolly
        • Focus
        • Framing
        • Use Framing behavior onscreen controls
        • Sweep
        • Zoom In/Out
        • Zoom Layer
    • Lighting
      • Lighting overview
      • Add lights
      • Light Inspector controls
      • Lighting controls in the Properties Inspector
    • Shadows
      • Overview
      • Cast a shadow
      • Shadow controls in the Inspector
      • About shadows and complex 3D layers
      • Shadows without lights
    • Reflections
      • Cast a reflection
      • Reflection controls
      • About reflections and groups
      • Limit recursive reflections
  • Manage timing
    • Overview
    • Show, hide, or resize the Timing pane
    • Add objects to the Timeline
      • Overview
      • Add layers to the Timeline layers list
      • Add layers to the track area
      • Set drag-and-drop preferences
    • Manage Timeline layers and tracks
      • Overview
      • Select and organize Timeline layers
      • Unlink video and audio tracks
      • Customize the Timeline
    • Edit objects in the Timeline
      • Overview
      • Move objects
      • Trim objects
      • Slip video layers
      • Split objects
      • Delete objects
      • Copy and paste objects
      • About group tracks
      • Edit in the group track
    • Navigate in the Timeline
    • Display and modify keyframes in the Timeline
    • Work in the ruler
      • Overview
      • Make changes to a range of frames
    • Work with markers
      • Overview
      • Add, move, and delete markers
      • Edit marker information
      • Navigate with markers
    • Edit in the mini-Timeline
    • Retime media
      • Overview
      • Retime in the Timeline
      • Timing controls
      • Manage retiming analysis
  • Animate with behaviors
    • Overview
    • Behaviors versus keyframes
    • Browse and apply behaviors
      • Browse for behaviors
      • Apply behaviors
        • Overview
        • Add, remove, and disable standard behaviors
        • Where applied behaviors appear
        • Add, remove, and disable a Parameter behavior
        • Reassign a Parameter behavior
        • Where applied Parameter behaviors appear
    • Manage behaviors and behavior timing
      • Disable, lock, hide, and rename behaviors
      • Copy, paste, move, and reorder behaviors
      • Modify behavior timing
        • Overview
        • Stop a behavior
        • Trim behaviors
        • About controlling Simulation behaviors
        • Move behaviors in time
        • Change the start or end offset of Parameter behaviors
    • About behavior order of operations
    • Behaviors and keyframes
      • Overview
      • About behaviors and keyframes in the Keyframe Editor
      • About keyframing specific parameters in behaviors
      • Convert behaviors to keyframes
    • Overview
    • Basic Motion behaviors
      • Overview
      • Fade In/Fade Out
      • Grow/Shrink
      • Motion Path
      • Work with the Motion Path behavior
      • Move
      • Point At
      • Snap Alignment to Motion
      • Spin
      • Throw
    • Parameter behaviors
      • Overview
      • Audio
      • Average
      • Clamp
      • Custom
      • Add a Custom behavior
      • Exponential
      • Link
      • Logarithmic
      • MIDI
      • Add a MIDI behavior
      • Negate
      • Oscillate
      • Create a decaying oscillation
      • Quantize
      • Ramp
      • Randomize
      • Rate
      • Reverse
      • Stop
      • Track
      • Wriggle
    • Retiming behaviors
      • Overview
      • Flash Frame
      • Hold Frame
      • Loop
      • Ping Pong
      • Replay
      • Reverse
      • Reverse Loop
      • Scrub
      • Set Speed
      • Strobe
      • Stutter
    • Simulation behaviors
      • Overview
      • Align to Motion
      • Attracted To
      • Attractor
      • Drag
      • Drift Attracted To
      • Drift Attractor
      • Edge Collision
      • Gravity
      • Orbit Around
      • Random Motion
      • Repel
      • Repel From
      • Rotational Drag
      • Spring
      • Vortex
      • Wind
    • Additional behaviors
    • Save and share custom behaviors
      • Save custom behaviors
      • Delete custom behaviors
      • Move behaviors to another computer
  • Animate with keyframes
    • Overview
    • Add keyframes
    • Animate in the Canvas
      • Add an animation path
      • Manipulate animation paths
    • Animate via the Inspector
      • Animate parameters in the Inspector
      • Animation menu
      • Manage keyframes with the Animation menu
      • Keyframe controls in the Inspector
    • Animate via the HUD
    • Use keyframes to modify behaviors
      • Apply keyframes to behaviors
      • About combining keyframes and behaviors
    • Work with keyframes in the Timeline
      • View keyframes in the Timeline
      • Modify keyframes in the Timeline
      • About keyframes and effect duration
    • Work in the Keyframe Editor
      • Display the Keyframe Editor
      • Keyframe Editor controls
      • Modify keyframes and curves
        • Add or delete keyframes
        • Modify keyframes
        • Reverse, lock, and disable keyframes
        • Copy and paste keyframes and curves
        • Manually draw an animation curve
        • Transform multiple curve segments simultaneously
        • Apply a Parameter behavior to a curve
        • Compare a modified curve to its previous state
      • Set curve interpolation and extrapolation
        • Set curve interpolation
        • Curve interpolation methods
        • Convert to Bezier interpolation
        • Set curve extrapolation
        • Curve extrapolation methods
        • Convert extrapolation data into keyframes
      • Choose which curves are displayed in the Keyframe Editor
        • Choose a curve view
        • Create a custom curve view
      • Save an animation curve
    • Work in the mini-curve editor
    • Animate on the fly
    • Simplify a keyframe-heavy curve
  • Create Final Cut Pro templates
    • Overview
    • How do templates work?
      • Template workflow
      • Placeholders versus drop zones
    • Work with effect templates
      • Create an effect template
      • Modify a Final Cut Pro effect
      • Example: Modify a preset Final Cut Pro effect in Motion
    • Work with transition templates
      • Create a transition template
      • Example: Create a Prism Blur transition
      • Create a transition background
      • Modify a Final Cut Pro transition
    • Work with title templates
      • Create a title template
      • Create a title background
      • Modify a Final Cut Pro X title
    • Work with generator templates
      • Create a generator template
      • Modify a Final Cut Pro X generator
      • Publish a standard Motion project as a generator
    • Add, replace, or remove placeholder images
    • Add parameter controls
      • Overview
      • Publish parameter controls
      • Manage parameter controls
      • About publishing text parameter controls
      • What cannot be published in a Final Cut Pro template?
    • Control template timing and animation
      • Overview
      • Add template markers
      • Animation guidelines
      • Timing guidelines
    • Set template resolution
    • Add multiple display aspect ratios to a template
    • About template files and media save locations
    • About using masks in templates
    • Guidelines for better template creation
  • Build rigs
    • Overview
    • How does rigging work?
    • Build a simple rig
    • Work with widgets
    • Widget types
      • Checkbox widget
      • Pop-up menu widget
      • Slider widget
    • Manage parameter snapshots
      • Overview
      • How snapshots are saved
      • Create and manage snapshots
    • Control rigs from parameter Animation menus
    • How to use rigs
      • How to use a single rig
      • How to use multiple rigs
      • About widget animation
    • Publish rigs to Final Cut Pro
  • Create particles
    • Overview
    • Add a particle system to a project
      • Add preset particles or create custom particles
      • What happens when you create a particle emitter?
    • Adjust a particle system
      • Overview
      • Modify basic particle system attributes
      • Modify particle system parameters in the HUD
        • Adjust a particle system in the Emitter HUD
        • Emitter HUD controls
      • Modify particle system parameters in the Inspector
        • Adjust a particle system in the Inspector
        • Single-cell versus multi-cell emitter controls
        • Emitter controls
        • Particle cell controls
      • Adjust a particle emitter in the Properties Inspector
    • Animate emitters and cells
      • Overview
      • Apply behaviors to particle systems
      • Particles behavior controls
        • Scale Over Life
        • Spin Over Life
      • View animated emitter curves in the Keyframe Editor
    • Create 3D particles
    • About particle system timing
    • Guidelines for using graphics in particle systems
    • About using filters and masks with particles
    • Save custom particle effects to the Library
  • Create replicators
    • Overview
    • How are replicators and particle systems different?
    • Add a replicator to a project
      • Add a preset replicator or create a custom replicator
      • What happens when you create a replicator?
    • Adjust a replicator
      • Overview
      • Modify the basic appearance of a replicator
      • Remove a replicator or a replicator cell
      • Modify a replicator in the HUD
      • Modify a replicator in the Inspector
        • Adjust a replicator in the Inspector
        • Replicator controls
        • Create a custom replicator shape
        • Replicator cell controls
      • Adjust a replicator in the Properties Inspector
    • Animate replicators
      • Overview
      • Apply behaviors to replicators and replicator cells
      • Special behavior considerations
      • Apply the Sequence Replicator behavior
      • Sequence Replicator controls
      • Control sequence timing with keyframes
      • Use Parameter behaviors with the Sequence Replicator behavior
      • Display replicator animation curves in the Keyframe Editor
    • Work with 3D replicators
    • About replicator timing
    • About using filters and masks with replicators
    • Save custom replicators to the Library
  • Create and edit basic text
    • Overview
    • Add text to a project
      • Set preferences before you add text
      • Add text
      • About TXT and RTF files
    • Select and modify text
    • Preview and apply fonts
    • Use preset text styles
    • Edit text in the Inspector
      • Overview
      • Display the Text Inspector or Text HUD
    • Edit text format
      • Display the Format pane
      • Format text
      • Format controls in the Text Inspector
    • Edit text appearance
      • Display the Appearance pane
      • Modify text color
      • Modify text opacity
      • Modify text softness
      • Use an image as a texture fill for text
      • Add a text outline, glow, or drop shadow
      • Appearance controls in the Text Inspector
        • 3D Text controls
        • Face controls
        • Outline controls
        • Glow controls
        • Drop Shadow controls
      • Save a custom text style
    • Edit text layout
      • Display the Layout pane
      • Create text on a path
        • Create and modify text on a path
        • Modify a text path in 3D space
        • Use a geometry shape for a path source
        • Animate text on a path
      • Work with margins and tabs
        • Create and adjust text margins
        • Add, remove, and modify tabs
      • Layout controls in the Text Inspector
        • Layout controls
        • Text Rendering controls
        • Behavior controls
        • Type On controls
        • Path Options controls
        • Margins controls
        • Tabs controls
    • Work with text glyphs
      • Overview
      • Select characters with the Transform Glyph tool
      • Modify a glyph in the Inspector or HUD
      • Spatially distort a glyph using onscreen controls
      • Reset glyphs to their original settings
      • Transform glyph controls in the Text HUD
    • Convert standard text into 3D text
    • Check spelling
    • Find and replace text in your project
    • About using filters with text
  • Build 3D text
    • Overview
    • 3D text workflow
    • Add 3D text to a project
      • Add 3D text
      • Convert 2D text to 3D
    • Apply a preset 3D text style
    • Move and rotate 3D text
    • Modify basic 3D text attributes
      • Modify basic format and layout
      • Modify depth, weight, and edges
      • 3D Text controls
    • Modify surface appearance
      • Overview
      • Apply materials to 3D text
        • Apply a preset material
        • Apply a custom material
        • Modify material layers
        • Add, remove, or rearrange material layers
        • Add light-emitting material layers
        • Apply materials to different facets
        • Save a modified material
      • Material controls
        • Overview
        • Substance controls
        • Paint controls
        • Finish controls
        • Distress controls
        • Emit controls
        • Placement controls
        • Example: Customize a metal gradient
    • Modify lighting style
      • Overview
      • Adjust 3D text lighting
      • Modify the lighting environment
      • Lighting and environment controls
    • Add glow or drop shadow effects
    • About 3D text intersection and layer order
  • Animate text
    • Overview
    • Apply a text behavior
    • Use preset text behaviors
      • About the preset text behaviors
      • Customize a preset text behavior
      • Example: Modify the Flare In behavior
    • Create custom text sequence behaviors
      • Apply the Sequence Text behavior
      • Fine-tune an applied Sequence Text behavior
      • Add keyframes to a Sequence Text behavior
      • Sequence the distortion of a 2D text appearance attribute
      • Sequence Text behavior controls
    • Create scrolling text
      • Use the Scroll Text behavior
      • Scroll Text controls
    • Create animated text tracking
      • Use the Text Tracking behavior
      • Text Tracking controls
    • Create a “type-on” effect
      • Use the Type On behavior
      • Type On controls
    • Animate individual text glyphs
    • About animating basic text in 3D space
    • When should you use keyframes to animate text?
    • About adding nontext behaviors to text
    • Save a modified text behavior to the Library
  • Draw shapes, masks, and paint strokes
    • Overview
    • Add simple shapes and masks
      • Overview
      • Draw simple shapes
      • Add shapes from the Library
      • Draw simple masks
      • Convert a simple shape or mask to control points
    • Add complex shapes and masks
      • Overview
      • Draw complex shapes and masks
    • Draw paint strokes
      • Overview
      • Create a paint stroke
      • Convert shape outlines to paint strokes
      • Use the Width Over Stroke onscreen controls
      • Paint Stroke tool controls in the HUD
    • Edit shape control points
      • Overview
      • Display control points
      • Select, deselect, and lock control points
      • Add and delete control points
      • Move control points to adjust a shape
      • Edit Bezier control points
      • Edit B-Spline control points
      • Use dynamic guides and snapping
    • Edit shape fill, outline, and feathering
    • Shape controls in the Inspector
      • Overview
      • Style pane
      • Style pane movie controls
      • Stroke pane
      • Advanced pane
      • Geometry pane
    • Shape behaviors
      • Overview
      • Apply a Shape behavior
      • Apply Pen Pressure
      • Apply Pen Speed
      • Apply Pen Tilt
      • Oscillate Shape
      • Randomize Shape
      • Sequence Paint
      • Track Points
      • Wriggle Shape
      • Write On
    • Keyframe shape control points
    • Work with masks and transparency
      • Overview
      • Mask a layer
      • About combining multiple masks
      • About applying filters or behaviors to masks
      • Use keyframes to rotoscope a mask
        • Rotoscope a mask’s shape
        • Rotoscoping tips
      • Mask controls in the Inspector
      • Use Image masks
        • Overview
        • Apply an image mask to a layer
        • Image mask controls in the Inspector
    • Convert between shapes and masks
    • About using filters and masks with shapes
    • Copy shape styles
    • Save custom shapes and styles
  • Create graphics with generators
    • Overview
    • Add a generator
    • Customize a generator
      • Modify or animate a generator
      • Controls common to all image generators
    • Image generators
      • Overview
      • Caustics
      • Cellular
      • Checkerboard
      • Clouds
      • Color Solid
      • Concentric Polka Dots
      • Concentric Shapes
      • Gradient
      • Grid
      • Japanese Pattern
      • Lens Flare
      • Manga Lines
      • Membrane
      • Noise
      • One Color Ray
      • Op Art 1
      • Op Art 2
      • Op Art 3
      • Overlapping Circles
      • Radial Bars
      • Soft Gradient
      • Spirals
      • Spiral Drawing
      • Modify the Spiral Drawing using onscreen controls
      • Star
      • Stripes
      • Sunburst
      • Truchet Tiles
      • Two Color Ray
    • Text generators
      • Overview
      • File
      • Numbers
      • Time Date
      • Timecode
    • Save a modified generator to the Library
  • Add effects with filters
    • Overview
    • Browse and preview filters
    • Apply and remove filters
    • Adjust filters
      • Overview
      • Adjust filters in the Inspector or HUD
      • Adjust filters using onscreen controls
      • Types of onscreen controls
    • Animate filter controls
      • Animate filters with keyframes
      • Animate filters using behaviors
    • Filter types
      • Overview
      • Blur filters
        • Overview
        • Channel Blur
        • Circle Blur
        • Compound Blur
        • Defocus
        • Directional Blur
        • Gaussian Blur
        • Gradient Blur
        • Prism
        • Radial Blur
        • Soft Focus
        • Variable Blur
        • Zoom Blur
      • Border filters
        • Overview
        • Bevel
        • Simple Border
        • Widescreen
      • Color Correction filters
        • Overview
        • Brightness
        • Channel Mixer
        • Color Balance
        • Color Reduce
        • Colorize
        • Contrast
        • Gamma
        • Gradient Colorize
        • Hue/Saturation
        • Levels
        • Negative
        • OpenEXR Tone Map
        • Sepia
        • Threshold
        • Tint
        • YIQ Adjust
        • YUV Adjust
      • Distortion filters
        • Overview
        • Black Hole
        • Bulge
        • Bump Map
        • Disc Warp
        • Droplet
        • Earthquake
        • Fisheye
        • Flop
        • Fun House
        • Glass Block
        • Glass Distortion
        • Insect Eye
        • Mirror
        • Page Curl
        • Poke
        • Polar
        • Refraction
        • Ring Lens
        • Ripple
        • Scrape
        • Sphere
        • Starburst
        • Stripes
        • Target
        • Twirl
        • Underwater
        • Wave
      • Glow filters
        • Overview
        • Aura
        • Bloom
        • Dazzle
        • Glint
        • Gloom
        • Glow
        • Light Rays
        • Outer Glow
        • Overdrive
      • Sharpen filters
        • Overview
        • Sharpen
        • Unsharp Mask
      • Stylize filters
        • Overview
        • Add Noise
        • Bad Film
        • Bad TV
        • Circle Screen
        • Circles
        • Color Emboss
        • Crystallize
        • Edges
        • Extrude
        • Halftone
        • Hatched Screen
        • Highpass
        • Indent
        • Line Art
        • Line Screen
        • MinMax
        • Noise Dissolve
        • Pixellate
        • Posterize
        • Relief
        • Slit Scan
        • Slit Tunnel
        • Texture Screen
        • Vignette
        • Wavy Screen
      • Tiling filters
        • Overview
        • Kaleidoscope
        • Kaleidotile
        • Offset
        • Parallelogram Tile
        • Perspective Tile
        • Random Tile
        • Tile
        • Triangle Tile
      • Time filters
        • Overview
        • Echo
        • Scrub
        • Strobe
        • Trails
        • WideTime
      • Video filters
        • Overview
        • Broadcast Safe
        • Deinterlace
    • Publish filters to Final Cut Pro
    • Example: Color-match composited layers
    • About filters and alpha channels
    • About filter performance
    • Save custom filters to the Library
  • Composite with color and luma keys
    • Overview
    • Use the Keyer filter
      • Overview
      • Pull a key with the Keyer filter
      • Keyer filter controls
      • About animated parameters in the Keyer filter
    • Use the Luma Keyer filter
      • Overview
      • Luma Keyer filter controls
    • Correct or refine an existing matte
      • Overview
      • Crop unwanted background areas
      • Restore part of a foreground image
      • Matte Magic filter controls
      • Spill Suppression filter controls
      • Apply multiple keys to a single subject
  • Track motion in clips
    • Overview
    • How does motion tracking work?
    • What are the types of motion tracking behaviors?
    • Analyze the motion of a clip
    • Match move an object to a background clip
      • Overview
      • Match move an object
      • About two-point tracking
      • Corner pin a foreground object
      • About combining animation and tracking data
    • Stabilize a shaky clip
    • Unstabilize a clip
    • Define a range of frames for analysis
    • Load existing tracking data into a tracking behavior
    • Track shapes, masks, and paint strokes
    • Track a filter’s position parameter
    • Adjust onscreen trackers
    • Guidelines for better tracking
      • Tracking guidelines overview
      • Basic strategies
      • Advanced strategies
      • Track perspective, scale, or rotational shifts
      • Track obscured or off-frame points
      • About tracking retimed footage
      • Improve stabilization
      • Remove black borders from stabilized clips
      • About combining masks with tracking behaviors
    • Tracking behavior controls
      • Analyze Motion controls
      • Match Move controls
      • Stabilize controls
      • Unstabilize controls
      • Track Points controls
      • Track controls
    • Save tracks to the Library
  • Work with audio
    • Overview
    • View Audio files
    • Add audio files
    • Play back audio files
    • Edit audio
      • Overview
      • Adjust audio tracks
      • Cut, copy, paste, and delete audio tracks
      • Slip, slide, and trim audio tracks in the Audio Timeline
      • Use markers with audio
      • Make advanced audio adjustments
        • Work with the Master track
        • Select output channels
        • Animate audio level and pan settings
        • Sync audio and video tracks
      • Retime audio
    • Automate effects with audio behaviors
      • Overview
      • Audio Auto Pan
      • Audio Fade In/Fade Out
      • Audio (parameter behavior)
      • Apply the Audio parameter behavior
  • Share Motion projects
    • Overview
    • Share to Apple devices
    • Share to iMovie, GarageBand, and other Apple applications
    • Create a DVD, Blu-ray disc, AVCHD disc, or disk image
    • Share to email
    • Publish to video-sharing websites
    • Export a QuickTime movie
    • Export audio only
    • Export a still image
    • Export an image sequence
    • Export for HTTP Live Streaming
    • Export using Compressor
    • Render settings
    • Display the background render list
    • Share notifications
  • Media file formats
    • Popular video codecs for file exchange
    • Field order
    • Pixel aspect ratio
      • Pixel aspect ratio overview
      • Create graphics that look correct when output to video
    • Differences in color between computer graphics and video
    • About high-resolution graphics
  • Work smarter
    • Overview
    • Motion Preferences
      • Overview
      • General preferences
      • Appearance preferences
      • Project preferences
      • Time preferences
      • Cache preferences
      • Canvas preferences
      • 3D preferences
      • Presets preferences
      • Project Preset Editor
      • Gestures preferences
    • Motion menus
      • Overview
      • Application (Motion) menu
      • File menu
      • Edit menu
      • Mark menu
      • Object menu
      • Favorites menu
      • View menu
      • Share menu
      • Window menu
      • Help menu
    • Keyboard shortcuts
      • Overview
      • Enable function keys on portable Macintosh computers
      • General interface commands
      • Menu commands
        • Overview
        • Motion menu
        • File menu
        • Edit menu
        • Mark menu
        • Object menu
        • View menu
        • Share menu
        • Window menu
        • Help menu
      • Audio list
      • Tools
        • Overview
        • Global transform commands
        • Select/Transform tool
        • Crop tool
        • Edit Points tool
        • Edit Ellipse and Edit Rectangle tools
        • Pan and Zoom tools
        • Rectangle and Circle tools
        • Bezier tool
        • B-Spline tool
        • Paint Stroke tool
        • Text tool
        • Rectangle Mask and Circle Mask tools
        • Bezier Mask tool
        • B-Spline Mask tool
      • Transport controls
      • View options
      • Miscellaneous
      • HUD
      • File Browser
      • Inspector
      • Keyframe Editor
      • Layers
      • Library
      • Media list
      • Timeline editing and navigating
      • Keyframing commands
      • Shape and Mask commands
      • 3D commands
      • Search and customize keyboard shortcuts
        • Overview
        • Command Editor interface
        • Identify a specific shortcut
        • Create your own keyboard shortcuts
        • Import and export command sets
    • Tablet Gestures
      • Overview
      • Enable gestures
      • Set Wacom tablet preferences
      • Use gestures
        • Overview
        • Playback control
        • General navigation
        • General commands
        • Timeline navigation and editing
    • Move projects, objects, or presets to another computer
    • Use color and gradient controls
      • Overview
      • Color controls
        • Basic color controls
        • Pop-up color palette
        • Colors window
        • Eyedropper
        • Expanded color controls
      • Gradient controls
        • Gradient editor overview
        • Use the gradient preset pop-up menu
        • Change a gradient’s color and opacity
        • Edit color and opacity direction and distribution
        • Move, duplicate, or change the interpolation of gradient tags
        • Save gradient presets
        • Use onscreen gradient controls
        • Basic gradient controls
        • Gradient editor controls
    • About rasterization
      • Overview
      • Examples of rasterization
      • Text and rasterization
      • Shapes and rasterization
      • Particles, replicators, and rasterization
      • Filters and rasterization
      • Shadows and rasterization
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