Apple Motion 4 - Manual (Page 850)

• Scroll Text Behavior (p. 876)
• Text Tracking Behavior (p. 879)
• Type On Behavior (p. 880)
• Preset Text Sequence Behaviors (p. 882)
• Saving a Modified Text Behavior to the Library (p. 888)
• Using Other Behaviors with Text (p. 889)
• Using Behaviors to Animate Text in 3D (p. 890)
• Animating Text with Keyframes (p. 891)
• Animating with the Adjust Glyph Tool (p. 893)
• Using LiveFonts (p. 895)
Text Animation and Text Sequence Behaviors
In Motion, text behaviors are divided into two basic categories: Text Animation behaviors
and Text Sequence behaviors. The Text Animation behaviors allow you to quickly create
crawls, scrolls, animated text tracking, or “type-on” effects. This group also includes the
powerful Sequence Text behavior, which allows you to create a custom animation that
sequences text style and text format attributes through the text characters over time.
The style attributes include face (fill color), glow, drop shadow and outline. The format
attributes include position, opacity, scale, rotation, tracking, and so on. The sequence can
run through the text from left to right, right to left, or you can create a custom animation
for the direction of the sequence. The sequence can also be applied per character, per
word, per text layer, and so on.
In the following illustration sequence, the text in the upper area of the image is animated
by modifying the Scale, Blur, and Opacity parameters in the Text Sequence behavior. The
lower text is animated using the Fade In/Fade Out and Tracking behaviors.
850 Chapter 14 Animating Text