Track curves – Apple LiveType 2 User Manual
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Chapter 9
Advanced Design Techniques
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One track, one effect, three keyframes—it’s actually fairly easy to re-create this effect.
And even with the numerous parameters involved, the LiveType Timeline is remarkably
clean, since one keyframe encapsulates all the parameters at a point in time.
For another example showing an effective use of Warp parameters, take a look at the
Screech effect, in the Caricature category of the Effects tab in the Media Browser. This
effect is created by making the glyphs invisible and using the glow channel to display
the letters, which are distorted using Warp parameters.
Track Curves
Using a Slide effect along a curved track can create a three-dimensional effect.
This example explains how to combine these features to send text into a vortex in only
a few steps.
1
Open a new project, and enter some text onto the track.
2
Left-justify the text on the track.
3
Move the track up toward the top of the Canvas.
4
Add a control point in the middle of the track by holding down the Control key and
clicking the track line in the Canvas. Control-click the control point to choose Curve Out.
You want to leave the left half of the track more or less in the same position, and create
a curved path arcing down and around clockwise from that point. Only a couple of
additional control points are needed. See Chapter 4, “
for more about making curved tracks.