Apple Motion 4 - Manual (Page 62)

• Safe Zones: Turns display of the title safe and action safe guides on and off. By default,
these guides are set at 80% and 90%. You can change these settings and the color of
the guides in the Canvas pane of Motion Preferences.
Note: You can also press the Apostrophe key (’).
• Film Zone: Turns display of the film aspect ratio guides on and off. This can be helpful
if you are creating a project for videotape that is to be transferred to film. You can
change the size of the guides as well as their color in the Canvas pane of Motion
Preferences.
Note: You can also press Shift-Quotation Mark (”).
• Handles: Turns display of object handles in the Canvas on and off. Viewing object
handles is necessary to perform certain onscreen transformations, such as resizing.
Handles only appear on selected objects.
• Lines: Turns display of the lines that outline an object on and off.
• Animation Path: Turns animation paths on and off. These editable paths indicate the
route along which animated objects travel. If the selected object is not positionally
animated, this command does not appear to have any effect. If handles are not
displayed, the path curves cannot be adjusted in the Canvas. Animation paths created
by behaviors, with the exception of the Motion Path behavior, are for display only and
are not editable.
• Show 3D Overlays: Turns all 3D overlays in the Canvas on and off, including Camera
overlays, 3D View Tools, Compass, Inset view, 3D grid, and 3D scene icons. (3D overlays
appear only in projects that contain 3D groups.)
Note: You can also press Command-Option-Slash (/).
• 3D View Tools: Turns the Camera menu and 3D View tools in the Canvas on and off.
Camera menu 3D View tools
Pan Dolly
Orbit
Editing
camera
• Compass: Turns the 3D Compass in the Canvas on and off. Using red, green, and blue
axes, the compass shows your current orientation in 3D space. The red axis is X
(horizontal), the green axis is Y (vertical), and the blue axis is Z (depth).
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