Apple Motion 4 - Manual (Page 225)

Unused Media
By default, media used by objects added to your project are managed automatically by
Motion. If you delete an object from the Canvas or Layers tab, the source media is removed
automatically from the Media tab. You can turn off this feature in the General pane of
Motion Preferences. For more information, see
Media .
Searching for Projects Using the Finder
Spotlight indexes certain properties of your Motion projects, allowing you to perform
advanced searches. Use Spotlight in the Finder to take advantage of this feature. The
following properties of Motion projects are indexed by Spotlight and can be searched
for:
Description Project property
Project width, in pixels Width
Project height, in pixels Height
Project duration, in seconds Duration
The name of any layer in your project Layer name
The name of any media object in your project Media name
The path to any media object in your project Pathname
The content of any text object in your project Text
The text in the Project Description field in Project Properties Description
The name of any marker in the Timeline of your project Marker name
The text of any marker comment in your project Marker comment
Editing Project Properties
Even though every project starts out with a preset group of project properties, you can
change these properties at any time, even after you’ve added objects.
To edit the properties of an existing project
1 Choose Edit > Project Properties (or press Command-J).
2 In the Project Properties dialog, change any necessary parameters, then click OK.
For more information on the parameters available in the Project Properties dialog, see
General Tab of the Project Properties Window and Render Settings Tab of the Project
Properties Window .
Most changes made to a project’s properties are fairly transparent and have no visual
effect on the project itself. The main exception is a change made to the project’s frame
size.
225 Chapter 6 Creating and Managing Projects