Apple LiveType 2 - Manual (Page 47)

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Working With Tracks
To create anything in LiveType, you need to be familiar
with tracks. Every element of a titling composition is part
of a track, and each track can contain one or more lines of
text, an image, a movie, or an animated object or texture.
Tracks are “containers” of content, represented by dark blue lines in the Canvas with
corresponding bars in the Timeline. A track comprises all of the information about its
content:
 Position, shape, and baseline
 Attributes such as color, shadow, font, and spacing
 Effects and timing
This chapter explains how tracks are moved and shaped in the Canvas, and how they
can be manipulated in the Timeline. The next three chapters describe in detail how to
apply text, objects, and effects to tracks to assemble your composition.
Empty track