Apple Motion 2 Getting Started - Manual (Page 138)

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As the animation sequences through the text object, small white lines travel with the
animation. These lines represent selection—whatever is in between the two solid white
lines is the current selection, and receives the full effect of the animation. The soft line
represents the selection falloff, and “leads” the next character into the animation.
You can customize and animate the location of the selection. For more information, see
Chapter 7, “Using Text,” in Motion Help.
5 Choose All from the Select pop-up menu.
All of the text characters begin at 500 percent and scale down to 100 percent
simultaneously.
Note: Make sure that the Map Animation parameter is set to To Entire Object.
6 In the Parameter row, click the Add button, choose Face, then choose Opacity from the
submenu.
7 Set the Opacity to the lowest value you want to use in your animation. In this example
Opacity is set to 0 percent so that the text characters gracefully fade in and scale in to
100 percent.
Selection indicators
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