Apple Motion 4 - Manual (Page 873)

• Minimum: Defines the lower boundary of the variance for the sequenced parameter
value. For example, if you set Minimum to 25% for a sequence that is animating text
scale, the minimum size that the text unit will scale to is 25% of the Scale value set in
the behavior.
Note: When Custom is selected from the Sequencing pop-up menu, Minimum (and
Maximum) is replaced with the Amount parameter.
• Maximum: Defines the upper boundary of the variance for the sequenced parameter
value. For example, if you set Maximum to 75% for a sequence that is animating text
scale, the maximum size that the text unit will scale to is 75% of the Scale value set in
the behavior.
Note: When Custom is chosen from the Sequencing pop-up menu, the Maximum and
Minimum sliders are replaced with the Amount slider.
• Amount: Available when Custom is chosen from the Sequencing pop-up menu, defines
the maximum amount that the animated parameter can deviate from its animation
value. For example, the following image shows a custom animation of a glyph in the
positive Y direction. When Amount is set to 50, the glyph deviates no more than 50
pixels to the left or right of the animation path (the bold red line shows the animation
path, the thinner red line displays the randomized path).
• Noisiness: Adds an additional overlay of random variance. Higher Noisiness values result
in more erratic variations in the affected parameter.
• Seed: Click the Generate button to create an initial random “seed” for creating
randomness in the Variance parameters. If you are not happy with the randomness
results when you first click Generate, click the button again or enter a value in the field.
Fix: Available when Sequencing is set to Custom, fixes the values defined in the behavior
to the start, end, or start and end of the behavior. There is also an option to not fix the
values. Variance must be greater than 0 for this parameter to have any effect.
• Start Point: When variance is applied, the values defined in the Sequence Text behavior
(above the Add and Remove pop-up menus in the Behaviors tab) at the start and at
the end of the behavior are fixed to the first frame of the behavior.
873 Chapter 14 Animating Text