Apple Motion 3 - Manual (Page 615)

Chapter 7 Using Text 615
3 Open the Style pane.
4 In the Face controls, drag the Opacity slider or enter an opacity value in the field.
Note: Because a text layer is like other layers in Motion, you can also adjust its opacity
in the Properties tab. Setting the Opacity value in the Properties tab and setting the
Opacity value in the Style pane are separate controls that have multiplicative effects. In
other words, if Opacity is set to 50% in the Properties tab, then set to 50% in the Text
Style pane, the result opacity for the text is 25%.
Changing Text Softness
Use the Blur parameter in the Style pane of the Text Inspector to adjust the softness of
the text.
To adjust the softness in the Inspector:
1 Select the text.
2 In the Inspector, click the Text tab.
3 Open the Style pane.
4 In the Face controls, drag the Blur slider, or enter a blur amount in the value slider.
The text softness is dynamically updated as you drag the slider.
Opacity parameter
in Properties tab
Blur parameter