• Apple Motion

  getting text to jitter

  Posted by Mark Welch on November 29, 2011 at 5:53 pm

  I’m just sneaking into Motion to create one effect. I don’t really know the app that well.

  How can I take some text and apply some instability to it – like it has a case of the jitters? It’s a pretty common effect applied too text but I just need some guidance to do a simple effect.

  thanks

  Anders Larsen replied 14 years, 5 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Mark Spencer

  November 29, 2011 at 5:55 pm

  Try the Wriggle parameter behavior, applied to the Position parameter of the text layer (just right click on the Position parameter in the Inspector and choose Wriggle from the list of parameter behaviors). You’ll then need to adjust it in the Behaviors Inspector.

  —
  Mark Spencer
  Freelance Producer/Editor/Motion Graphics Artist
  Apple-certified Master Trainer
  Author, Motion 4 from Peachpit Press
  https://www.applemotion.net
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  Mark Welch

  November 29, 2011 at 7:02 pm

  Excellent – thanks!!

  Mark
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  Anders Larsen

  November 30, 2011 at 12:49 pm

  If you want the individual letters to jitter independent from each other, you can take a look at the options under Behaviors>Text sequence>Text-continuous.

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