Subtitles of the Movie

Alright, one of the things you'll probably deal with sooner or later in Motion is being able to speed up your playback because you want to get a feel, a sense of what your Motion project is going to look like when it's finally outputted to, typically, a QuickTime Movie, or when it's imported back into another application like Final Cut, which we deal with throughout this tutorial, or in a specific chapter in this tutorial. This, what I've gotten out here, is a relatively complex project, again not terribly complex, but relatively complex based on what we're going to be dealing with in this tutorial and that is just to give you some of the basic building blocks so that you are able to make very complex projects. But what you might end up with and what we're going to learn how to build is something that looks a little bit like this. And in fact I'll make the Overlay go away on this so you get an even better sense of what this will do. I'll also put away the Project Pane so that you see it on the whole Canvas, so let's go back to the beginning. You'll learn what keyboard shortcut that was to do that. And so we're just flying through a series of pictures here, but as you can see the playback is rather slow. Now, one thing I can do to help speed up the playback is that I can take this Layer that I've built, and this is called a Replicator Ð we'll learn about Replicators and how to use those later on and how to use them to generate all these different pictures, but if we want to try to improve playback a little bit, one thing we have the ability to do is Solo a layer. We Solo a layer by doing Control S on the keyboard, and that should have us look at just one aspect. You notice that immediately in this Project Pane a lot of the items have grayed out. Let's Undo that with Control S again, so you can toggle on and off. So the selected layer is the Replicator and we've also got a Camera Move that affects the Replicator as well. So in this case right here we're probably not going to get a whole lot of performance improvement, but that's certainly a way that you can get performance improvement, is that you can Solo a Layer. So, that's a little bit better than what we had before. We take out the background element, and the background element is its own movie file and has its own animation applied to it, so that helps us out. It presents less of a strain on our processor. Again, to go back just Control S again and you see the whole thing. Another thing that comes in handy, and this won't be the first time I mention it, is that you can create RAM Preview, and the RAM Preview can be done from the Mark Menu RAM preview, and you could either preview, create a RAM Preview for your Play Range, a Selection, or everything. Now, most of the time as you are previewing your items here you can just do a RAM Preview on your Play Range. So one of the things you'll memorize very quickly is Command R on the keyboard. So, let me tone down this Play Range not quite so big. I'm going to set my Playhead there and do Command Option I to mov my Playhead there. Again, you might have seen that blink and you can do all of this from the Menus as well, so Mark Play Range In is what I just did. I'm going to go here and Mark my Play Range Out, so there's Command Option O, and now I've got Play Range that is set here and to do a RAM Preview now I'm going to do Command R. It'll take just a moment to render, hopefully not too long. Six seconds, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1. Fifteen of the most exciting seconds you'll have in this tutorial, no doubt, but now I've got this little area down here in my mini Timeline that is shaded green. What that simply means is that I've got a RAM Preview generated and it should play back at the project native Frame Rate. So, let's hit Play, hit the Spacebar, and then I can get a Preview of what this is going to look like.