Apple Motion 5.1.1 - Manual (Page 253)

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Timeline track display
Each object in your project appears as a colored bar in the track area of the Timeline. Tracks are
arranged in a hierarchy identical to that of the Layers list in the Project pane, showing you each
object’s place in time, as well as its relative position and duration.
You can determine the type of each object in the track area based on its appearance. The
following list describes the appearance of various Timeline objects:
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Group: A double blue bar. For groups with multiple layers, the lower bar displays three lines
and a value indicating the number of layers in the group.
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Objects (video, stills, shapes, text, particles, replicators, cameras, lights): A blue bar.
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Masks: a gray bar.
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Behaviors and Filters: A thin purple bar.
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Keyframes: Red diamonds beneath the keyframed object. Selected keyframes appear white.
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Audio: A green bar displaying the audio waveform. Audio tracks are not displayed by default.
For more information on displaying audio tracks see
Edit audio tracks overview on page 1016.
When you select an object in the Timeline, its bar becomes highlighted. When the Timeline is
in Filmstrip mode, the filmstrip frames are highlighted with a white border. See
Customize track
display on page 257 for more information on how to set Timeline view modes.
The tracks in Motion can be displayed in a variety of ways for different working styles.
Change the Timeline track display
1 Choose Motion > Preferences (or press Command-Comma), then click Appearance.
2 In the Timeline section of the Appearance pane, choose an item from the Timebar Display
pop-up menu:
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Name: Displays the name of the object on the track.
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Name Plus Thumbnail: Displays the name of the object and a single thumbnail on the track.
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Filmstrip: Displays frames of the object over the track.
67% resize factor