User`s guide

Chapter 8 Working with Text
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You can now animate each character individually by animating that character’s Media
and/or Shape track. You can also animate the entire text effect by animating the
container.
Adding Effects to Text
When you select the Text track or Text Face track in the Timeline, the Text Media control
tabs appear in the Controls window. These tabs allow you to animate the text, put the text on
a path, create type-on or jitter animation, randomize the text, and create text backdrops.
When you work with the 3D Plane shape, the Text track is nested inside the Face track,
which includes a Mask track for creating upstream masks. For more information, see
“Upstream and Downstream Filters” on page 174.
When you work with the 3D Line Art shape, there is no Face track. The 3D Line Art shape
does not have a Mask track nested in the Face track. Therefore, you cannot create upstream
masks for any composition that uses the 3D Line Art shape.