Apple motion 2 Leaflet

    Working With Text

Any sequencing effect can be set to apply multiple times over the duration of the 
effect. 

Click the Behaviors tab in the Inspector again, to return to the Sequence Text behavior 
controls.

Set the Loops slider to 2.

Press the Space bar to play the project.

Now, the sequence effect happens twice during the duration of the hippopotamus 
object. However, rather than simply repeating again and again, you can control the 
nature of the repetition.

Choose Ping-Pong from the Traversal pop-up menu (right above the Loops slider). 

This instructs the behavior to go from left to right, then to go back from right to left. If 
the Loops slider was set to 4, the effect would go back and forth twice.

Once you get the hang of working in the Sequence Text behavior, you can create an 
unlimited array of interesting effects. The behavior becomes even more powerful when 
you consider that you can keyframe most of the parameters in the Sequence Text 
behavior or even use Parameter behaviors to control their values. For more information 
about Parameter behaviors, see Chapter 5, “Using Behaviors,” in the Motion User 
Manual.

In this exercise, the goal is to have the letters get compressed going from left to right, 
and then get stretched as they go back from right to left. This can be quickly achieved 
with keyframing.

Move the playhead to the part of the project after the Sequence Text effect has 
completed its left-to-right movement, but hasn’t yet begun going right to left (at 
approximately frame 80).