Subtitles of the Movie

Alright so far we've just gotten started with Motion. We've looked at the Canvas, looked at the Interface, put some Objects up on the Canvas, started to work with them a little bit and modify them. Here's another thing, by the way notice that you can change the orientation of any of these objects just by clicking and dragging the Orientation kind of compass there and so you end up with a project that looks like this. But again, your projects are going to undergo lots of different changes. You're going to have lots of Layers, lots of behaviors. We are just getting rolling with the application. We looked at Particle Emitters already, but you're going to get a lot more experience with each of those things. Now, an important thing to show you as we get started in this module is a preference that I like to change, so I'm going to pass along this tip here, and that is, under Motion Preferences. If you look at the Cache there is an Autosave feature, keep a copy every 15 minutes, because the last thing you want to do is make lots of little fine-tune modifications, and believe me you'll make lots of fine-tune modifications to get your projects looking the way you want them to, but you could do work and be very painstaking with your work and then you don't want to lose your work because of an application crash, for example. So if you change under your Preferences Ð Motion Preferences Ð this Cache, the Autosave feature here saves a copy automatically every 15 minutes. I like to ratchet that down to about 5 minutes. I don't like to leave anything to chance here. I'm going to leave it at 15 just because I just don't want it Autosaving all the time and because I'm not really going to work with a project here in this tutorial that I'm going to use long-term. Most of the projects are going to be defined just to get across a specific point, but I'll keep mine to 15 minutes. But I recommend that you do that to your Autosave and again, that can really help save you a lot of headache and trouble in redoing your work in the even that Motion happens to crash. So again, we're just getting started and in the next chapter of this tutorial we'll start adding effects and really making this project do a lot more than just have two clocks on a canvas.