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Create projects from templates in Motion

Motion templates—shown in the Compositions category in the Project Browser sidebar—are premade, royalty-free projects that you can customize. Each template contains graphics, text objects, and backgrounds.

You can also create custom templates for commonly used shots that you regularly create. For example, if you make titles for a news program, you can create templates for the opening title, interstitial graphics, or bumpers.

Create a project from a composition template

You can open a composition template from the Project Browser.

  1. Open Motion, then choose File > New from Project Browser (or press Option-Command-N).

  2. In the Project Browser, select a category from the Compositions section in the sidebar.

    The compositions for that category appear in the middle of the browser.

  3. Click a composition to see its basic properties (resolution, duration, and frame rate) and an animated preview on the right.

    Project Browser showing custom preview

  4. To create a project from the selected composition, click Open a Copy.

    A new project opens in the Motion window. You can customize the project by editing the text or exchanging the graphic elements with your own. The changes you make to projects created using compositions do not overwrite the source template files.

  5. To save your composition, see Create and save an original composition template.

Note: After you’ve installed Motion, additional compositions (and Library content) are available. See the Apple Support article About Motion Supplemental Content.

Create and save an original composition template

You can also build a custom template from scratch and save it to the Project Browser. Custom templates are standard Motion projects saved in a special way.

  1. With a standard Motion project or composition template open, choose File > Publish Template.

  2. In the dialog that appears, enter a name for the template and choose a category from the pop-up menu.

    To create a custom category, click the Category pop-up menu, choose New Category, enter a descriptive name, then click Create.

  3. Click the Theme pop-up menu, choose New Theme, enter a descriptive name, then click Create.

  4. If you want the template project to retain media in the Media list that isn’t present in the composition, select “Include unused media.”

  5. If you want a preview of the template to appear in the Project Browser, select Save Preview Movie.

    Note: If you want to add the template to a Final Cut Pro project, select “Publish as Final Cut Generator.” See Intro to Final Cut Pro templates.

  6. Click Publish.

    The template, saved in your /Users/username/Movies/Motion Templates/ folder, becomes available in the Project Browser (in the Compositions category you chose in step 2).

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