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Table Of Contents
- LiveType User Manual
- Contents
- An Introduction to LiveType
- The LiveType Interface
- Setting Up a Project
- Adding a Background
- Working With Tracks
- Working With Text
- Working With Objects, Textures, and Imported Elements
- Working With Effects and Keyframe Animation
- Previewing and Fully Rendering Your Titling Movie
- Advanced Design Techniques
- Solutions to Common Problems and Customer Support
- Creating and Editing EffectScripts
- Glossary
- Index
Chapter 9 Advanced Design Techniques 125
4 Adjust the Size, Tracking, and Leading parameters in the Text tab of the Inspector to
create a panel of evenly spaced squares.
5 In the Style tab, disable the shadow, and add a white outline thick enough for the
outlines of each square to touch each other, obscuring the Canvas background.
6 Add a new effect, and set the duration of both the track and the effect to 1 second in
the Timeline.
7 Select the beginning keyframe of the effect, and choose a glyph color in the Attributes
tab of the Inspector. Change the ending keyframe to a different color. Then position the
playhead at several intermittent points, changing the color each time.
If you change an effect parameter when the playhead is not on a keyframe, a new
keyframe is automatically added to the effect under the playhead. This step shows how
automatic keyframe insertion can be a convenient time saver.
8 Set the glyph opacity to 0 percent at the ending keyframe, so that squares fade out at
the end.
Ending Keyframe
First Keyframe