Apple LiveType 2 - Manual (Page 24)

24 Chapter 1 The LiveType Interface
 Attributes: This is where you assign a variety of attributes—opacity, blur, scale, offset,
rotation, and color—to elements in the Canvas. Attributes can be applied to entire
tracks or individual characters on a track.
The Attributes tab also contains options for creating a matte effect, in which an
element appears as a cut-out window that reveals the element below it. A simple
line of text, for example, can be matted to a movie clip, which essentially “fills” the
text. The Matte to Texture option lets you fill track contents—even individual
characters—with an animated texture, without having to add the texture to your
project as a separate element.
Matte settings are variables
for creating cutouts and
textured fills. Glyph settings include
attributes such as the
shape, color, and position
of text and objects.
Attributes tab in the
Matte pane Attributes tab in the
Glyph pane