Apple Motion 5.1.1 - Manual (Page 116)

Chapter 4 Preferences 116
Appearance pane
The Appearance pane of the Preferences window contains settings that control visual elements
of the Motion interface, grouped into the following categories: Timeline, Canvas, Thumbnail
Preview, and Status Bar.
Timeline
This section of the Appearance pane in Motion Preferences lets you choose how to display the
bars that appear in the Timeline to represent your objects.
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Timebar Display: A pop-up menu with three options for Timeline display:
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Name: Displays bars in the Timeline track area by object name.
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Name Plus Thumbnail: Displays bars in the Timeline track area by name and with a thumbnail
image representing the first frame of the object. This setting is the default. Only layers
(shapes, images, image sequences, text, and so on) display a thumbnail. Objects such as
cameras, lights, and behaviors do not display a thumbnail.
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Filmstrip: Displays bars in the Timeline as a continuous strip of frames. The name text
does not appear. Only layers (shapes, images, image sequences, text, and so on) display
a continuous strip of frames. Objects such as cameras, lights, and behaviors do not
display frames.
Canvas
This section of the Appearance pane in Motion Preferences contains a setting that controls the
opacity of objects that extend beyond the Canvas edges.
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Full View Opacity: A slider that 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. This setting takes effect when Show Full View Area is
enabled in the View menu.
Thumbnail Preview
The thumbnails that appear in the Layers list can provide helpful information about the items
selected in that window. For items that are partially transparent (contain an alpha channel), you
can set the background that appears behind the image.
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Background: A pop-up menu with two options for thumbnail backgrounds:
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Checkerboard: Displays a checkerboard pattern where transparent pixels appear.
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