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Animating a text title:
1 Select a text title on the Timeline or
create a new one.
2 On the first page of the Options panel,
click the yellow Motion style button.
3 Select a motion style from one of the
preset choices.
4 Click the Apply changes button.
Most of the motion style buttons, the last twelve in fact, represent scrolling animations. It is a
little difficult to explain in words, but not hard to understand.
For example, the button has a box with three arrows pointing down. This
represents a title that starts off the top of the screen, scrolls downward across
the screen, and scrolls off the bottom.
A brief description of each motion style is also available in a pop up message format when
moving the mouse over a motion style button.
But the best way to figure out what these really do is to select the effect, and then click Play
clip button to see the result in the Preview window. You can also use the Preview window to
see the results of your changes by grabbing and dragging the yellow Preview bar beneath the
Preview window.
The speed of scrolling is directly determined by the length of the clip: very slow title
animations take longer to play. So if you need a scrolling title that lasts for less than a second,
the speed of scrolling is going to necessarily be quite rapid.
Another incredibly useful, easy, and effective method of displaying your titles is to fade your
text in from invisible to crisp and clear and then back to invisible again. This works especially
well for opening credits with a slow fade, or as captions with a quicker fade.
Fading titles:
1 Select a text title on the Timeline or
create a new one.
2 On the first page of the Options panel,
click the yellow Motion style button.
3 Click one of the three buttons for fading.
TITLE
Motion style
button
Text title animation effects on
the Options panel
Buttons for fading
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