Sequence text behavior – Apple Motion 4 User Manual
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Do one of the following:
• Drag the behavior to the text in the Canvas, Layers tab, or Timeline.
• Click the Apply button in the Preview area.
The Text HUD is replaced with the text behavior HUD.
To apply a Text behavior from the Add Behavior icon
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Select the text layer (or layers) to which you want to apply the behavior.
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In the Toolbar, click the Add Behavior icon, then choose a Text Animation or Text Sequence
behavior from the pop-up menu.
Sequence Text Behavior
The Sequence Text behavior allows you to animate text attributes, such as scale, position,
color, opacity, and glow in sequence through the text characters. For example, you can
create a sequence in which the text characters fall vertically into place as they scale down,
fade in, and rotate.
After applying the Sequence Text behavior to a text layer, you must designate the
parameters of the text that you want to animate. You do this in the Behaviors tab of the
Text Inspector. Once you’ve linked the desired text parameter(s) to the behavior, you can
use the Sequence Text controls to adjust the animation’s direction, speed, number of
loops, and other qualities.
All of the Text Sequence behaviors (in the Text Sequence subcategory) are presets based
on the Sequence Text behavior. The Text Sequence presets contain the same controls
and are modified in the same manner as the Sequence Text behavior.
Tip: Using the Adjust Glyph tool, you can modify individual text characters independently
of the influence of the applied sequence text behavior. For information on using the
Adjust Glyph tool, see
Note: The Text Sequence behavior shares many parameters with the Sequence Replicator
behavior. For more information on sequencing replicator patterns, see
Once you have created a Sequence Text behavior, you can save the behavior to the
Library. For information on saving a modified behavior to the Library, see
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Chapter 14
Animating Text