Changing the duration of a clip in Apple’s Motion is really easy:
Select your clip in either the Project Pane (F5) or the Timing Pane (F6) then go to the Inspector (cmd + 3). At the bottom is the Timing drill-down menu.
‘Motion’ Archives
Smoother Animations in Motion
When creating animations using Apple Motion or Adobe After Effects or even Flash, you need to use keyframes. These are the key frames where changes to an object are set, such as a ball being on the left of the screen and ending on the right. To do this, you would use 2 keyframes for the beginning and the end of the animation, with different values for the x (horizontal) position and the animation would happen as the timeline moves between the 2 values.
3D Photoshop Layers in Motion
When you bring a Photoshop file into Motion and add a 3D camera, you will probably want to move your layers back in 3D space. If you drag on the HUD for the active camera your layers will appear to get smaller as they move back. To move and scale them at the same time, hold down the Cmd key as you drag in the HUD.
Cmd + Drag on the First Thumbnail Chip
It may help to set your viewport to show a 2-up display, with the active camera and a perspective view.
Change The Speed of a Clip Not it’s Duration
In Final Cut, there may be times when you want to change the speed of a clip, but not it’s overall duration in the Timeline.
To do this, put your playhead over the clip and press Alt/Opt+Cmd+F. This loads a copy of the clip into the Viewer. There are no In or Out points. Next, go to the Modify > Speed menu (Cmd+J) and change your speed to say, 30%. Grab your clip and do a Replace edit.
That’s it!
Depending on your footafe, you may want to send the clip to Motion and apply Optical Blending to clean up any ghosting that you get.
