Subtitles of the Movie

Alright, I've got Fall Leaves playing here as my Motion Project, and it looks something like this. Now I mentioned in the previous module that just because you start with a 10 second duration Motion Project doesn't mean you're stuck with that. You can easily make modifications if you want to, and probably the easiest way to do so is just to give the Timing Box a click and then setting in the new value by typing in the hours, minutes, seconds, and then possibly frames that's what these four values mean: Hours, Minutes, Seconds, and Frames. Now, shorthand for all this stuff is, if you want 12 seconds worth of your Motion Project you can do 12. and then press Enter and now you have a 12 second project, and notice there is the entire 12 second project and the Fall Leaves doesn't span that entire 12 seconds. That's alright. You might put some other stuff there, or maybe not. You could also shorten the overall project 6 dots, or 6. 20 for 6 seconds and 20 frames by doing that. So, if I do 6 dots Ð let me select Ð 6., now Fall Leaves spans the entire length of my, what's going to be my finished Motion Project, if I do 6. 20 I've altered the Parameter so that I have just a little bit of extra space after Fall Leaves. So, now I'm playing through once again and I'll show you another way to kind of modify what happens with your timing of your Motion Project, and we'll get to more of this by the way. We haven't even started to deal with the entire Timing Pane, which looks like this, but believe me, we'll come back and touch on this and change, for example, the speed at which these leaves are falling. So, here's something you can do. You can play through this and let's say I just, in 10, I don't want to do this Ð I'm hitting the Spacebar here to Play and Pause Ð but let's say I'm just clicking and dragging and I don't want to see this kind of burst of leaves at the beginning of this Fall Leaves render, and I want to just start with something like that on this Motion here. So, I'm going to set an End Point for my project just by dragging and dropping my End Point. Or, I can play through it and use the Mark Menu and Mark Play Range In, Mark Play Range Out. And of course there are the keyboard shortcuts, which I'll use right now. The Option Command I sets my End Point right there. I could continue to play through and let's say Option Command O now is my Out Point, so again you can double check this on the Mark Menu; Mark Play Range Out, Mark Play Range In Ð those two commands, and then Reset Play Range is with the Option and X key. So, now what I've got is just a shortened range of my Fall Leaves and with this toggled, this loop Playback, what I'll be able to do is kind of Preview my In and Out Points from my Play Range. So now even though I've added Fall Leaves, the entire thing, which I can still go back and Preview, I can still say, well, maybe I do want that, or maybe I want to extend this for another couple of leaves trickling down I can still have access to those elements of the render. But as far as my current Playback Range that I might use, I've set an In and Out Point for those items. So, you can shorten the duration of your effect, certainly by setting your In and Out Point of your Play Range. You can set the overall duration of your Motion Project by using the Parameters down here in the lower right-hand corner of the Timing Box, which you can also toggle not only the Seconds but if you want to just set the Frame numbers you can do that as well. So if you don't want to use Minutes and Seconds and Frames like I just showed you and want to, instead use not 200 frames but 250 frames for your project, notice that that's exactly what I've just done. I've made my project 250 frames, and if I toggle this back you can see exactly how much time that would take: 8 seconds and 10 frames. So those are a couple of ways that we can just get started with modifying the timing of your Motion Projects.