Exercise 1: working with the replicator, Opening the starting project – Apple Motion 2 Tutorials User Manual
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Tutorial 5
The Replicator
To review the result project:
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Once Motion is open, choose File > Open (or press Command+O).
2
In the Open dialog, navigate to /Users/Shared/Motion/Tutorial Media/Tutorial Projects.
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, see
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Select Tutorial 5
Exercise 1 Result, then click Open.
The selected result project opens and appears within the Motion interface.
4
Click the Play button (or press the Space bar) to play the project.
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Choose File > Close (or press Command+W) to close the project.
Important:
If you made any changes to the project, Motion prompts you to save. Click
Don’t Save.
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).
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In the file stack, select Tutorial 5
Result.mov.
The selected movie plays in the Preview area of the browser.
3
In the file stack, do one of the following:
•
Double-click Tutorial 5 Result.mov and play the movie in the Viewer window.
•
Control-click Tutorial 5
Result.mov, then choose Open in QuickTime Player from
the shortcut menu.
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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 the Replicator
In this
exercise, you will replicate a shape, then modify the parameters of the
resulting replicator pattern.
Opening the Starting Project
For this exercise, a project has been created to help you get started.
To open the starting project:
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Once Motion is open, choose File > Open (or press Command+O).