[Mark Spencer]

and you can slip clips in the mini-Timeline or Timeline

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Mark Spencer
Freelance Editor/Producer
Apple-certified instructor, Final Cut Pro and Motion
Author, Motion Visual Quickstart Guide from Peachpit Press (coming soon)
https://www.applemotion.net

[Mark Spencer]

No – but you can work around it. You can use a shape as a mask – create the shape, add an image mask to your object to be masked, drag the shape onto the image mask. Then duplicate the source shape, add an outline, turn off the fill.

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Mark Spencer
Freelance Editor/Producer
Apple-certified instructor, Final Cut Pro and Motion
Author, Motion Visual Quickstart Guide from Peachpit Press (coming soon)
https://www.applemotion.net

[Mark Spencer]

Go here:
https://secure.vtc.com/cd/motion.htm
and click on the two movies:
-Problem with Changing Opacity
-Solution for Changing Opacity
Basically, you can keyframe the Levels filter instead of using the opacity parameter.

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Mark Spencer
Freelance Editor/Producer
Apple-certified instructor, Final Cut Pro and Motion
Author, Motion Visual Quickstart Guide from Peachpit Press (coming soon)
https://www.applemotion.net

[Mark Spencer]

You need this:

https://www.ampede.com/layerlink/

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Mark Spencer
Freelance Editor/Producer
Apple-certified instructor, Final Cut Pro and Motion
Author, Motion Visual Quickstart Guide from Peachpit Press (coming soon)
https://www.applemotion.net

[Mark Spencer]

Special Case, I’ve posted a link to your excellent tutorial on applemotion.net, hope that is ok with you. If you want a different credit, let me know.

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Mark Spencer
Freelance Editor/Producer
Apple-certified instructor, Final Cut Pro and Motion
Author, Motion Visual Quickstart Guide from Peachpit Press (coming soon)
https://www.applemotion.net

[Mark Spencer]

Wow – excellent tutorial, special case! Very clearly presented.

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Mark Spencer
Freelance Editor/Producer
Apple-certified instructor, Final Cut Pro and Motion
Author, Motion Visual Quickstart Guide from Peachpit Press (coming soon)
https://www.applemotion.net

[Mark Spencer]

I think that’s a great way to look at it.

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Mark Spencer
Freelance Editor/Producer
Apple-certified instructor, Final Cut Pro and Motion
Author, Motion Visual Quickstart Guide from Peachpit Press (coming soon)
https://www.applemotion.net

[Mark Spencer]

I’ll amend my response – you can add the Scrub filter and animate the Frame offset parameter. For example, set a keyframe at the point where the word is fully drawn with an offset of zero, and another 60 frames later with an offset of -60 to keep that frame on screen for 2 seconds. Again, you’ll have to set the Sequence parameter to zero.

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Mark Spencer
Freelance Editor/Producer
Apple-certified instructor, Final Cut Pro and Motion
Author, Motion Visual Quickstart Guide from Peachpit Press (coming soon)
https://www.applemotion.net

[Mark Spencer]

Inspector > Text tab > LiveFont Timing section near the bottom. Since that particular font animation ends with nothing on the screen, all you can really do is adjust the Sequence parameter to zero so all the letters get drawn on at the same time, and adjust the Speed parameter to control how quickly they are drawn on and fade off. You can hold the first frame or last frame, but you can’t hold an intermediate frame (when all the words are formed). You’d think the Speed parameter could be keyframed (it has an animation menu, after all), but “add keyframe” is greyed out for all the LiveFont parameters.

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Mark Spencer
Freelance Editor/Producer
Apple-certified instructor, Final Cut Pro and Motion
Author, Motion Visual Quickstart Guide from Peachpit Press (coming soon)
https://www.applemotion.net

[Mark Spencer]

Turn off Collapse Image Sequences. The button at the bottom right of the File Browser.

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Mark Spencer
Freelance Editor/Producer
Apple-certified instructor, Final Cut Pro and Motion
Author, Motion Visual Quickstart Guide from Peachpit Press (coming soon)
https://www.applemotion.net