Apple Motion 2 Getting Started User Manual download pdf (Page 44)

44 Chapter 1 Orientation

Choose Window > Show Project Pane (or press F5).

The Project pane appears.

The Project pane contains three tabs that allow you to view the objects in your project.

Layers Tab

The Layers tab displays the structure of your project. The main building block of a

project is a layer. A layer contains objects and the behaviors and filters applied to those

objects. Filters and behaviors can also be applied to layers. Use the Layers tab to

manage your composite.

Media Tab

The Media tab displays all media (including audio) that has been imported into a

project, whether or not the media is used as an object in the project. You can import

media directly into the Media tab by clicking the Add button (“+”) at the top of the

Media pane, or by using the File > Import menu command (from within the Media tab).

When media is imported in this manner, you can think of the Media tab as a holding

bin. One reason to import files into the Media tab is so you can use the media as the

source for a text object texture or a mask. You can add files from the Media tab to your

project at any time by dragging the file to the Canvas or Timeline.

Note: Text objects and other shapes created within Motion do not appear in the

Media tab.

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