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Apple Motion 5 Cookbook

You're reading from   Apple Motion 5 Cookbook With this book you'll be able to fully exploit the fantastic features of Apple Motion. There are over 110 recipes with downloadable content for each chapter and stacks of screenshots. A video editor's dream.

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849693806
Length 416 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Nicholas Harauz Nicholas Harauz
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Apple Motion 5 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Getting Around the Interface FREE CHAPTER 2. Looking at Motion's Library 3. Making It Move with Behaviors 4. Making It Move with Keyframes 5. Let's Make Text 6. Paint and Masks 7. Let's Make Particles 8. Replicators – It's No Fun By Yourself 9. Motion Tracking and Keying 10. Intro to 3D 11. Publishing Your Work to FCP X 12. Customization and Exporting Index

Changing the text format


The Format pane of text has several options available to us before we even begin to explore the style and layout options of our text. Let's explore some of these features.

Getting ready

Launch Motion and choose a Broadcast 720p, 29.97 project with a 10 second duration. Press Shift + Z to fit the Canvas window.

How to do it...

Let's create some text and head to the Inspector to change its format.

  1. Press T or select the T icon on the toolbar to select the text tool as shown in the following screenshot. Click somewhere close to the center of the Canvas. Type Playing With Text and press Esc to exit the text entry mode. Use the dynamic guides to help you center your text on the screen. Press F7 to show the HUD.

  2. While we could switch our text in the Format pane, it's actually beneficial to do it in the HUD. Click and hold down the font menu (just above the alignment options). Scroll through the various options as shown in the following screenshot and notice how your text updates...

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