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 Drop Shadow: A group of controls that lets you apply a customizable drop shadow to
every character of text being generated.
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Color: Opens the standard color picker for choosing a drop shadow color.
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Offset: X and Y parameters determining how offset the drop shadow is from the
original text.
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Blur: A slider for blurring the drop shadow.
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Opacity: A slider determining how transparent the drop shadow is.
 Stroke: Lets you add an outline to every character of text being generated.
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Color: Opens the standard color picker for choosing the stroke color.
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Size: A slider lets you choose the thickness of the stroke, in pixels.
 Background: This group of controls provides an extremely flexible rectangle or
rounded rectangle shape that you can use to add a background, bar, outline,
or other intersecting shape to use when designing a title.
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Color: Opens the standard color picker for choosing the interior color of the
background shape.
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Outline color: Opens the standard color picker for choosing outline color of the
background shape.
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Outline width: A slider lets you choose the thickness of the background shape
outline, in pixels.
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Width: A slider lets you choose how wide to make the background shape.
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Height: A slider lets you choose how tall to make the background shape.
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Corner radius: A slider lets you choose the roundness of the rectangle edges.
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Center: X and Y parameters you can use to offset the background shape from
the text being generated.
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Opacity: A slider lets you set the transparency of the background shape.
Title Generator Video Parameters
Additionally, each generator has Composite, Transform, and Cropping parameters in the Video
panel of the Inspector that let you composite, resize, and animate titles against other clips in the
Timeline for motion graphics effects. These parameters are the same as those available for
every clip, as described later in this chapter.
The Text+ Title Generator
A new kind of title generator, named Text+, is available in the Titles category of the
Effects Library’s toolbox. This is the exceptionally fully-featured 2D text generator from Fusion,
available for editing and customizing right in the Edit page. It’s capable of most of what the
Text generator can do, with the exception of rich text editing and a lack of on-screen controls in
the Timeline Viewer. However, it also has many more styling and animation controls than the
Text generator has.
TIP: At the time of this writing, the Text generator is still very useful for quickly creating
text pages with multiple styles, whereas the Text+ generator excels at creating text for
animated motion graphics.
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