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To make manual kerning adjustments:
1 Option-drag the red dot under any letter of text to adjust that character’s kerning while
constraining letter movement to the left and right. You can also drag letters up and
down for other effects. Depending on your system, the kerning of the letter you’re
adjusting might not update until you drop the red dot in place.
2 If you don’t like what you’ve done, you can open the Advanced Controls in the
Inspector and clear either the kerning of selected letters or all manual kerning before
starting over again.
Option-dragging the little red dot revealed by the Manual
Kerning tool to manually adjust kerning.
Using Text as a Mask
You can fill the text with a color or gradient, or you can use the text as a matte to cut the letters
out of another image. First, we’ll drag another clip of a chalkboard covered with math from the
Media Pool to the Node Editor as a disconnected MediaIn2 node.
Disconnecting and Reconnecting Nodes
If we start from the previous example that had a MediaIn as the background and the Text+ as
the foreground to a Merge, we’ll need to do a little rearranging. Clicking the last half of the
connection from the Text1 node to the Merge foreground input disconnects it.
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