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Working with text, Inserting text, Chapter 5 – Apple LiveType 2 User Manual

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Working With Text

Titles can incorporate all kinds of visual elements, but
their traditional function is to display text. This chapter
describes how to insert and format text, including
manipulating individual characters on the same track.

Adding movement to text—that is, beyond the inherent animation of LiveFonts—is
covered in Chapter 7, “

Working With Effects and Keyframe Animation

,” on page 87.

Inserting Text

Like any Canvas element, text must reside on a track. There are three approaches to
adding text, in a particular font, to the Canvas:

 Create a track, select a font, and then add text to the track.
 Create a track, add text to it, and then apply a font.
 Choose a font first, click the Apply To New Track button in the Media Browser, and

type in the text.