Apple Motion 2 Tutorials - Manual (Page 162)

162 Tutorial 4 Working With Particles
Note: If you changed the default path during installation, you will need to open the
tutorial project and movie files from the new location. For more information, “Getting
Started” on page 5
.
3 Select the lesson result you want to see, then click Open.
The selected result project opens and appears within the Motion interface.
To review the result project preview movie:
1 In the File Browser, navigate to the Tutorial Projects folder (default is /Users/Shared/
Motion/Tutorial Media/Tutorial Projects).
2 In the file stack, select the result movie file you want to see.
The selected movie plays in the Preview area of the browser.
3 In the file stack, do one of the following:
• Double-click the result movie to play it in the Viewer window.
• Control-click the result movie, then choose Open in QuickTime Player from the
shortcut menu.
4 Close the Viewer window.
Note: When Motion cannot locate source files used by a project (for instance, if the
project source files have been moved to a different location since the project was
saved), a sheet appears that contains the message “The following items used to create
this project are missing.” For more information on locating misplaced source files, see
“Relinking Missing Media” on page 6.
Exercise 1: Working With Particle Presets
In this exercise, you add a particle preset to a project, modify its parameters, and save it
to the Library for later use.
Opening the Starting Project
For this exercise, a project has been created to help you get started.
To open the starting project:
1 Once Motion is open, choose File > Open (or press Command+O).
2 In the Open dialog, navigate to the Tutorial Projects folder (default is /Users/Shared/
Motion/Tutorial Media/Tutorial Projects).
3 Select Tutorial 4 Exercise 1, then click Open.