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Although trends in type design change, a balanced use of type and graphics remains key
to achieving the right eect in most commercials, documentaries, television and lm titles,
broadcast logos, corporate presentations, or your own video projects. No matter what style your
project requires, Motion provides unique text animation tools that oer immediate results.
It’s easy to add text to a Motion project. Simply select the Text tool, click in the Canvas, and
start typing. After you create the text, you can apply text styles, special eects lters, animation
behaviors, and keyframes. (For details on animating text, see Animated text overview on
page 676.) You can modify text as a whole object, or as separate glyphs (characters), allowing for
endless combinations of eects.
After you create a text treatment—a text style with the perfect gradient colors, radiant glow, or
customized behavior—you can save the behavior or style in the Library for use on other text
treatments or in a future project.
You can also use text objects as source cells for particle emitters and replicators to create
stunning graphics. If you later modify the source text, Motion updates the replicator and particle
system. If the text used as a cell source has applied behaviors or lters, the eect is carried over
into the replicator or particle system. For more information about using particle emitters and
replicators, see Particles overview on page 513 and Replicator overview on page 559.
To learn more about working with text in Motion, choose a topic in the Help table of contents
(the sidebar to the left of this window). To learn about animating text elements to create
dynamic eects, see Animated text overview on page 676.
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