Apple Motion 2 Tutorials - Manual (Page 124)

124 Tutorial 3 Working With Text
Adding a Text Object
In Motion, you add text by creating a text object and typing into the text object. You
can edit the text, change text properties, and edit the text object in a variety of ways.
To create a text object:
1 In the Layers tab, select the Titles layer.
Without a layer selected, new objects are created in the topmost layer. If you want a
newly created object to appear in a different layer, select the layer before adding the
object to your project.
2 Click the Text tool (or press T) in the Toolbar.
3 Click in the Canvas near the center of the Sunset object.
A flashing text insertion point appears where you click.
4 Type “the serengeti” in the Canvas.
The text “the serengeti” appears in the new text object. By default, text is white, 48
points, in the Geneva font, and is aligned along the left of the insertion point.
5 Press the Esc (Escape) key to exit text-edit mode.
Important: Whenever you have finished typing your text, be sure to press Esc or select
another tool on the Toolbar—do not use a keyboard shortcut. When the Text tool is
selected, you are in text-edit mode, so if you press S to choose a Select/Transform tool,
an “S” is added to your text rather than the tool being changed.
Changing Text Properties Using the Dashboard
When you select a text object in the Canvas, the Dashboard displays the most
commonly used text properties of the object. You can change these text properties in
the Dashboard.
To change text properties using the Dashboard:
1 Click the Select/Transform tool in the Toolbar (or press Shift+S).
2 Select the text object in the Canvas.
The Dashboard displays the basic text controls.