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Chapter 7
Using Text
Using Text Animation and Text Sequence Behaviors
While you can apply any behavior (Basic Motion, Parameter, or Simulation) in Motion to
text, text also has its own special behavior categories: Text Animation and Text
Sequence behaviors. Text behaviors create animation by applying a range of values to
text parameters specific to titling effects—without creating keyframes. By dragging a
behavior to text in the Canvas, Layers tab, or Timeline, you can easily create a left or
right text crawl, scroll, a “type-on” effect, or a tracking animation.
Using the Sequence Text behavior in the Text Animation group, you can create a
custom animation that sequences through the characters of text using the text Format
and Style parameters. For example, you can choose to animate the Scale, Blur, and
Opacity parameters of text in a given sequence. 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.
The Text Sequence subcategory includes more than100 sequence behaviors. Each
behavior in this category is a preset that uses the parameters of the Sequence Text
behavior (in the Text Animation subcategory). For example, the Drop In Random Text
Sequence behavior animates the Position parameter so that the text characters drop in
vertically in a random order. Although the Text Sequence behaviors are all presets—the
parameters are already selected and animated—you can still add, remove, or modify
any parameter that is available to the Sequence Text behavior.
You can save a modified behavior to the Library. For more information, see “
Modified Text Behavior to the Library
Note: Remember that you can apply any Basic Motion, Parameter, or Simulation
behavior to text. For more information, see “
Using Other Behaviors With Text
Upper text layer with applied Text Sequence behavior using Scale, Blur, and Opacity parameters. Lower text
layer with applied Fade In/Fade Out and Tracking behaviors