Canvas zoom level – Apple Motion 4 User Manual

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The options in the Output tab become available, including Resolution, Color, Frame Rate,
Camera, Lighting, Render Quality, Field Rendering, Motion Blur, and Frame Blending
settings.

When the Frame Blending checkbox is selected in the Output tab, the project is exported
with frame blending regardless of the Frame Blending status in the View pop-up menu.

Canvas Zoom Level

You can zoom in on the Canvas to allow precision alignment and placement of objects,
and you can zoom out to get a sense of the big picture or to see the path of a moving
object. You can also use the dynamic zoom modes to quickly zoom in or out of the Canvas,
or to zoom specific areas of the Canvas. If you are using a Mac computer with a Multi-Touch
trackpad, you can pinch open to zoom in and pinch closed to zoom out.

Zooming the Canvas does not actually change the size of the images in your project. It
merely changes the current view of the entire window.

To zoom in or out on the Canvas

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Choose a zoom level from the Zoom Level pop-up menu.

In the following image, 50% is chosen from the Zoom Level pop-up menu.

To use the dynamic zoom mode

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Hold the Space bar and Command key (in that order), then drag diagonally in the Canvas.
The zoom occurs around the spot clicked in the Canvas.

To zoom in and out using a Multi-Touch trackpad

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Place two fingers on the trackpad and move them closer together (“pinch closed”) to
zoom in or farther apart (“pinch open”) to zoom out.

Once zoomed in, you can use a two-finger swipe in any direction to scroll around.

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