Apple Motion 5.1.1 - Manual (Page 701)

Chapter 17 Animated text 701
Preset Text Sequence behaviors
Preset Text Sequence behaviors overview
As previously noted, Text Sequence behaviors are customized, preset versions of the Sequence
Text behavior in the Text Animation subcategory. (For more information on the Sequence Text
behavior, see
Use the Sequence Text behavior on page 679.) Although behaviors in the Text
Sequence behavior subcategory are predefined, values can be modified and other parameters
added, or existing parameters can be removed. For example, the Awaken In behavior (from the
Basic group) animates text Opacity, Scale, and Rotation values (Format parameters) by default.
However, you can add a parameter, such as Position, to the behavior.
Text Sequence behaviors are applied to text objects in the same manner as other behaviors.
However, there is one big difference between the Text Sequence behaviors and other behaviors
in Motion: When added to text, Text Sequence behaviors do not last the duration of the text.
However, you can modify the default duration of the behavior to slow down or speed up the
effect of the animation.
As with all behaviors, you can save a modified behavior to the Library as a custom behavior. For
more information, see
Save a modified text behavior to the Library on page 705.
Clicking a Text Sequence behavior in the Library stack plays the preset animation in the
preview area.
Customize a preset Text Sequence behavior
In this section, the Flare In behavior (from the Glow group) is used to show how to modify a Text
Sequence behavior.
The following steps begin at the first frame of the text.
Modify the Flare In behavior
1 Select the text object to be animated, then choose Text-Glow > Flare In from the Add Behavior
pop-up menu in the toolbar.
At the first frame, the text is not visible because Face opacity and Glow opacity are animating
from 0% to 100%.
2 Click Play (or press the Space bar).
The text characters fade in from 0% to 100% percent opacity, and sharpen from a blur value of
10. A glow rides the effect in as the text appears.
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