Subtitles of the Movie

Now in a previous module we were introduced to using three-dimensions and we'll continue that discussion right here and use the 3D Transform Tool and that will have a couple of different implications as you deal with your Canvas and possibly your Heads-Up Display. So let's look at this picture we've been building first of all, and it's a two-dimensional space. I can grab it and I can drag it around if I want to on my Background and that's fine. But what if I want to, again, use this in a three-dimensional space? What I do is up on the View Menu I can change my mouse into the 3D Selection Tool, or the 3D Transform Tool, and I can also use this in conjunction with the Heads-Up Display. So I want to show you what happens when I've got something selected and then I click on this tool up here. So not only does the mouse pointer change, or my possible selections change here on the Canvas, but of course my Heads-Up Display changes as well. And now I'm able to rotate and scale the elements, whatever element I've got selected, and move it around in, again, a three-dimensional space. So, let's try, for example, tilting the picture around. And I can grab either of these X, Y, and Z axes, and make little adjustments like that. I can select just the text and let's say, again, I want to make a slight adjustment to its axis like this, or up and down, around, to the side, so I get a lot of control over what I could do. This gives me even more control, so I can click this and move it in and I can move it out. I can move it forward. Let's select the Background, just the rectangle. Again, it's been tilted because the whole image was tilted when I selected the picture but again, I have the ability to rotate this thing around if I want to and maybe I want to move it backwards in a 3D Space and now if I put the Heads-Up Display away and go back to my Select Transform Tool you notice that I have generated a three-dimensional space here. Now what's also interesting about this is that you can view your groups as individual layers in a 3D Space and that can be done by clicking on these little Status Icons up here. So for example I have, again as you earlier saw a 3D Space, if I click that now I've just got a series of layers in the space and in fact I can do that with my Graphic as well. Now why does my Rectangle, why has it gone away? Well, if I look back at my 3D Space it's because if I move this back and forward this is actually behind the layer of the picture itself and if I grab that picture and rotate it around in this 3D Space you can see forwards and backwards what's in front of what and what angle it has. So you can still make all your adjustments as you want to. You can still rotate this and scale it if you want to, and move it about as you please and then go back to your Picture and rotate it back and so you can just build very, very complex types of, types of files in a 3D Space. That's the cool part about Motion. And if you go back to your 2D Space, that's what it's going to look like. Those are the elements as they've been repositioned. So that's another thing that can help you manipulate and get your layers exactly where you want them. Change your groupings into individual layers.