User`s guide

Chapter 8 Working with Text
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The Text window allows you to type text or import or paste text from another source. You
can format the text using the font, size, style, and kerning controls in this window. Once you
create a Text media track, you can edit the text at any time by double-clicking the track. This
opens your text in the Text window where you can make changes.
The Text media type includes Transform, FIll, Border, Shadow, Path, Type On, Texture,
Backdrop, Jitter, Generator, Texture, Backdrop and Layer tabs. These tabs appear in the
Controls window when a Text media track is selected in the Timeline. When text is in a Title
Container, a Page tab is also available. Unlike the parameters in the Text window, the Text
Media Control parameters apply to the text globally. In addition, these parameters have
tracks in the timeline and can be animated.
With Avid FX you create 2D or 3D text. To create 2D text, you choose Text as the media
type and 3D Plane or 3D Line Art as the shape type. To create 3D text, choose Text as the
media type and 3D Extrusion as the shape type.
For more information on the Text window, see “Using the Text Window” on page 397.