Apple Motion 5.1.1 User Manual

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Chapter 6

Create and manage projects

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Apple ProRes 422 (Proxy)

XDCAM HD 1080i50, 1080i60, 1080p24, 1080p25, 1080p30 (35 Mb/s VBR)

H.263

H.264

Still image formats

Photoshop

BMP

GIF

JPEG

PNG

TIFF

TGA

OpenEXR

Other image formats

Layered Photoshop files

PDF files

Audio formats
You can import audio files with sample rates up to 192 kHz and with bit depths up to 32 bits.
Mono and stereo files are supported. Multichannel audio files are also supported. Motion
supports the following audio file types:

AAC (listed in the Finder with the .m4p file extension)

AIFF

CAF

WAV

Important:

You cannot import rights-managed AAC files, such as those purchased from the

iTunes Store.

For more information about the file formats supported by Motion, go to the Motion website at

http://www.apple.com/finalcutpro/motion

.

QuickTime movies

Motion supports QuickTime movies using any file format (codec) installed on your computer.

Although you can import movies in nearly any codec, avoid using highly compressed clips
in projects. Excessively compressed clips can display undesirable visual artifacts. Fortunately,
QuickTime provides many codecs ideal for moving uncompressed or minimally compressed
video files between applications, including Apple ProRes 4444 (XQ), Apple ProRes 4444, Apple
ProRes 422 (HQ), Apple ProRes 422, Uncompressed 8- and 10-bit 4:2:2, Pixlet, None, Animation,
Apple M-JPEG A and B, DVCPRO-50, and Apple DV/DVCPRO.

Some codecs support alpha channels, which define areas of transparency in the clip. If a
QuickTime clip has an alpha channel, Motion uses the alpha channel in your project.

You can combine clips that are compressed with different codecs in the same project. You can
also combine clips that have different frame sizes, pixel aspect ratios, and interlacing. To learn
more about alpha channels, interlacing, pixel aspect ratio, frame rates, and frame sizes, see

Video

and file formats overview

on page 1053.

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