Motion’s Text Animation “Flare In/Out”

[Stephen Smith]

I just did a test and it looked great. Check it out.

It could be the font you are using. Did you mess with any of the settings?

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[Darren Williams]

It must be the font. Your test looks fine, another font that uses Flare In/Out is fine, so I can only surmise that the font has an issue. I am using Weezer, but have also used the sister font, Century Gothic.

How do you insert video into a thread? I could show you.

Thanks,

D Williams
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Darren Williams
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[Stephen Smith]

[Darren] How do you insert video into a thread?

Above where you type your response there is a bunch of icons. Click on the one that looks like a film camera. If you hover the mouse over it it will say, “Video Upload”. Upload the video. Once that is done you will see a section on the upload page that says “Embed”. It will have a bunch of code. Copy the code and then past it into your reply.

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[Darren Williams]

Here’s the movie. Thanks for your help, Stephen.

Darren Williams
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[Stephen Smith]

Wow, that must be frustrating. Sorry it is doing that. I tried the Century Gothic font set to Bold and it worked great on my machine. I don’t have the Weezer font. Did you try the Century Gothic font with success?

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[Jason Clarke]

I recently ran into the “Flare In/Out” issue with the text suddenly going from bold to un-bold. I was able to correct the issue by adding a drop shadow to the text. You will find this setting in the Inspector under the “Text” tab and then the “Style” sub-tab. If you don’t want the drop shadow to show up, simply set its opacity to 0. I hope this helps.