On the Fast Track with Apple Motion Chapter 1.5: Text Part 2

Apple Motion Tutorial at Creative COW

Kevin P. McAuliffe
Toronto Canada

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In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe looks at the Layout tab in the text tool, and shows you why this tab will be an integral part of your text workflow from creating text on a path to scrolling and crawling text.

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Re: On the Fast Track with Apple's Motion 5: Chapter 1 Lesson 5: Text Part Two
by Fred Jackson

Hi Kevin, thanks for another great tutorial with Motion 5. I thought I would just mention that that when I first tried out the spin control on the double line of text I was not getting the correct responses for Character, Word, Line and ALL . This was because the "Include in SubObjects" check box in the Spin behaviours control was not ticked.

In my Motion 5 this automatically loads every time unchecked. It threw me somewhat.

Thanks once again for your excellent Tutorials.

Regards & Merry Xmas

Fred

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