Apple Motion 2 Getting Started User Manual download pdf (Page 122)

122 Chapter 4 Arts and Letters

Text behaviors are ideal for interactively designing titles and other text animations—

you don’t have to set keyframes, wait for a preview, and play the preview. You can

apply a Text Animation or Text Sequence behavior to a text object while your project

plays back, as well as make interactive adjustments to the behavior parameters. Like

other behaviors, text behaviors are applied at the beginning of the text object. This

means that no matter where your playhead is during playback or when playback is

paused, the behavior always begins at the start of the text object.

When text behaviors are combined with filters, you can quickly achieve exquisite

results that look like they took hours to create.

The following sections provide a quick introduction to adding, editing, and animating

text in a project. For more information, see Chapter 7, “Using Text,” in Motion Help.

Adding Text

This section describes how to add text to your project. By default, when a new text

object is created at frame 1, the object’s duration is the length of the project. To

shorten the duration of a text object, shorten the text object in the Timeline.

Setting Object Preferences

When you are working with text and shapes, you generally want to create objects at

the start of the project. In Motion preferences, objects can be set to be created at the

start of the project, or the current frame.

Set the Motion preferences to create objects at the start of the project:

1 Choose Motion > Preferences (Command+,).

2 Click Project.

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