Creating the dolphin titles – Apple Motion 2 Tutorials User Manual
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Tutorial 2
Basic Motion Behaviors
Important:
When you want to apply a behavior to a layer or group of objects in the
Canvas, make sure that an individual object is not selected. In this example, as you drag
the behavior over the Canvas, notice that a gray box appears around individual objects
as you pass over them. If you drop the behavior on one of these selections, the
behavior is only applied to that single object, and not the layer itself.
To modify the Fade In/Fade Out behavior:
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In the Fade In/Fade Out Dashboard, drag the fade out control (the right side of the
control) to the left until the fade out value is set to 30.
The rectangles fade out over the last 30 frames of the project.
Creating the Dolphin Titles
This section provides a quick introduction to working with text in Motion. When text is
created, it becomes a text object. Like all other objects in Motion, text objects can be
moved, rotated, scaled, and easily animated using the Basic Motion, Parameter, or
Simulation behaviors.
Text, however, has its own special set of text behaviors. The Text Animation and Text
Sequence behaviors create text animation by generating a range of values in the text
parameters specific to titling effects.
In the following example, create a new layer to house the titles. Next, create two text
objects and apply the Text Tracking behavior to one of the text objects. After the “titles”
are created, import a premade text object and apply the Spin and Grow/Shrink
behaviors to the object.
Note: For more information on using text and the text sequence behaviors, see
Tutorial 3: Working With Text. You can download the tutorial from
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To create a new layer for the title elements:
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In the Layers tab, collapse the boxes layer (click the disclosure triangle).
2
Click the Add Layer button.
3
Name the new layer “titles.”