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104 Chapter 7 Working With Effects and Keyframe Animation
Example: Creating a New Effect
The following example demonstrates how to build a new effect. In this case, part of the
text on a single track will bounce around the Canvas.
This example highlights how motion paths are built into an effect.
1 Start a new default project, and add a few words of text to the empty track in any font.
One of these words is going to move around the screen, independent of the other
word(s) on the track.
2 Position the track in the Canvas as you like. This will not affect the movement of the
bouncing word.
3 Set the duration of the track by dragging its right edge in the Timeline. Two or three
seconds is plenty.
4 Create a new, blank effect, which enables you to apply movement to the text. Make the
effect duration match the track duration in the Timeline.
5 Now, even before you build the effect, make it apply to only one word on the track.
That is, turn off the effect, as described in “Preset Effects” on page 88, for the words
that won’t be moving.
6 Add the first of three or four keyframes spaced evenly across the effect.
a Click in the frame ruler to position the playhead.
b With the playhead in position and the effect selected, choose Track > Add Keyframe
(or press Command-K).