User`s guide

Chapter 8
Working with Text
With Avid FX, you can create and animate titles or create text with alpha channels to
use as layers or masks in other effects. You can use Avid FX to create complex text
animations, including text on a path, type-on or write-on effects, animated text
reveals, as well as jitter or randomly generated text. These animations work with both
2D and 3D text. You can also create 2D or 3D text effects using the Text media type
and then change the media type to Spline Object to edit the splines that form the text
characters.
Avid FX provides the following to use for creating text:
• The Text window lets you control the font, size, color, and spacing of each
individual character and allows you to add shadows.
• The Style Palette lets you create and save style settings for future use.
• The Text tool (Tool window) lets you type text directly over the image in the
Composite window.
• Title Containers let you set keyframes to animate the text tracks within the
container.
• The Convert to Container feature transforms a text track into a container with a
separate track for each character in the original text. You can easily position and
animate characters individually without having to manually create a separate
track for each character and position it in relation to the others.
Working with Text Media
The Text media type allows you to create, edit, import and format text. The Text
media type does not include a Media tab. Instead you create text in the Text window or
use the Text tool to create text directly in the Composite window.