Apple Motion 3 - Manual (Page 147)

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Canvas
This pane contains settings to customize your Canvas view. Changes made in this pane
take immediate effect in your current project.
Background
This setting allows you to choose a color for the background of your Canvas—the color
outside of the project boundaries. This color is not exported with your project, but only
acts as a guide for helping identify transparent and colored layers.
To change the background color of the Canvas:
m Click or Control-click the Canvas color well, then choose a color from the Colors
window or from the pop-up color palette.
The selected color becomes the background color for the Canvas.
Full View Opacity: If Show Full View Area is enabled in the View menu, this setting
controls the opacity of the part of a layer that extends beyond the edge of the Canvas
into the background. When set to 100%, the layer is transparent. When set to 0%, the
layer is fully opaque.
Alignment
These settings control the color and display of the optional grid, rulers, and guides that
appear in the Canvas. Grids, guides, and rulers can be turned on and off in the View
menu or in the View pop-up menu at the upper-right corner of the main window.
Grid Spacing: This slider sets the width for the grid in pixels.
Grid Color: This color well sets the color of the grid lines.
Guide Color: This color well sets the color of guides.