Apple Motion 4 - Manual (Page 354)

When you select an object, the color changes to a darker shade, and the name of the
object turns white. When the Timeline is in Filmstrip mode, the filmstrip frames are
highlighted with a white border. See
Specifying the Track Display for more information
on how to set different Timeline view modes.
Timeline Layers List
The Timeline layers list mirrors the Layers tab in the Project pane and displays your project
objects (groups, layers, filters, behaviors, and so on) and their stacking order. Behaviors,
filters, masks, and keyframes applied to an object can also be displayed. In the Timeline
layers list, you can reorder objects. This change is immediately reflected in the Layers tab
in the Project pane. You can also lock tracks to prevent further editing on those tracks
and disable entire tracks to omit them from view in the Canvas.
Naming Objects in the Timeline Layers List
You can rename any object in Motion. This can be helpful if you are using more than one
version of an asset, using multiple cameras, or if you want to categorize things into named
groups. Masks, shapes, particles, and other content you generate within Motion are
created with generic names. Renaming them allows you to better manage and keep track
of them while you work.
To rename an object
1 In the Timeline layers list, double-click the name of the object.
2 Type a new name in the editable text field.
3 Press Return or Tab.
Although Motion allows you to rename objects you import from your disk, changing the
object’s name in the Timeline layers list does not modify the name of the file on disk. This
allows you to use one source clip multiple times and name each instance uniquely inside
Motion.
354 Chapter 8 Using the Timeline