Apple Motion 4 - Manual (Page 867)

Onscreen controls appear that allow you to distort the text attribute. No parameters are
added to the Inspector (above the Add pop-up menu) until the onscreen controls are
adjusted.
2 Do one of the following:
• To shear the glow, drag a shearing handle.
• To warp the glow, drag a corner handle.
Once you adjust a handle, the Four Corner parameter is added to the sequence above
the Add and Remove pop-up menus.
Note: You can also use the value sliders in the Four Corner parameter in the Behaviors
tab. Click the Four Corner disclosure triangle to show the Bottom Left, Bottom Right,
Top Right, and Top Left controls.
3 Play the project.
The glow distortion is sequenced through the text, based on the settings in the Sequence
Text behavior parameters.
Sequence Text Controls
The Sequence Text behavior has the following parameter controls in Behaviors tab.
Parameter (Add and Remove): Use the Add and Remove pop-up menus to add and
remove text format and style parameters to the sequence. Once a parameter is chosen,
its controls appear above the Add and Remove pop-up menus. There are five menu
items—Format, Face, Outline, Glow, and Drop Shadow—each of which invokes additional
submenu items.
• Format: Choose any of eight Format parameters from the submenu: Position, Opacity,
Scale, Rotation, Tracking, Baseline, Slant, or Character Offset. With the exception of
Character Offset, these parameters are also found in the Format pane of the Text
Inspector. (For more information on the text format parameters, see
Editing Text Format .)
Choose the Character Offset option to offset characters alphabetically or numerically.
The amount of the offset is determined by the value set in the parameter. In the
following illustrations, Character Offset and Position are sequenced. The Character
Offset Value is 3. The words move in sequence from the character offset value to form
the original words: “offset 123.”
867 Chapter 14 Animating Text