Apple Motion 4 - Manual (Page 762)

Paragraphs and 3D Space
Text can be modified when working in 3D space. As a camera rotates, the onscreen text
entry controls rotate with the text. Although the controls (the ruler, text entry field, and
scroll control) may appear to change in scale, this is only a perspective shift caused by
the movement of the camera.
Adding Text with the Text Editor
Once you have added a blank text layer to your project (clicked the Text tool in the
Canvas), you can enter and edit text in the Text editor rather than the Canvas. The Text
editor is useful when working with large amounts of text.
To enter text in the Text editor
1 Click the Text tool (or press T), then click or drag in the Canvas to create a blank text layer.
• If you click in the Canvas, you activate the default layout method (Type), which requires
that you insert manual line breaks (by pressing Return) to make text wrap to a new
line.
• If you drag in the Canvas, you activate the Paragraph layout method, which automatically
wraps text into a column.
2 In the Text Inspector, open the Format pane.
762 Chapter 13 Creating and Editing Text