Mark Spencer
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Text is vector, it will stay crisp at any size – providing you set the render quality to Best – do it in both Motion and FCP (sequence settings – render control tab).
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Mark Spencer
Freelance Producer/Editor/Motion Graphics Artist
Apple-certified Master Trainer
Author, Motion 4 from Peachpit Press
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Instead of increasing the font size of the text in Motion, increase the scale (Properties tab).
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Mark Spencer
Freelance Producer/Editor/Motion Graphics Artist
Apple-certified Master Trainer
Author, Motion 4 from Peachpit Press
https://www.applemotion.net -
Sorry, I knew he was looking for 3rd party LiveFonts but didn’t realize your question was specific to those – but I should have known better 😉
Answer is I haven’t tried it but I don’t know why they wouldn’t…
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Mark Spencer
Freelance Producer/Editor/Motion Graphics Artist
Apple-certified Master Trainer
Author, Motion 4 from Peachpit Press
https://www.applemotion.net -
LiveFonts work better in Motion than they do in LiveType and are available directly in the Library assuming you have them installed.
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Mark Spencer
Freelance Producer/Editor/Motion Graphics Artist
Apple-certified Master Trainer
Author, Motion 4 from Peachpit Press
https://www.applemotion.net -
The 3D stack icon is on the group in the Layers tab – it looks like a stack of three rectangle but is enclosed in a box if being rasterized.
The blue LED appears in the Inspector next to the parameter causing the rasterization, such as opacity or blend mode – unless a filter is causing it, then you won’t get the blue light. Just disable the filter and see if the 3d stack icon loses the box.
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Mark Spencer
Freelance Producer/Editor/Motion Graphics Artist
Apple-certified Master Trainer
Author, Motion 4 from Peachpit Press
https://www.applemotion.net -
The little box around the 3D stack icon in the layers tab for some of your layers means that those layers are being rasterized or precomped into layer order instead of ordering by z-depth. You’ll need to determine what is triggering the rasterization – it’s usually adjusting opacity, applying a blend mode, or a filter. The offender is often indicated in the Inspector with a blue LED dot.
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Mark Spencer
Freelance Producer/Editor/Motion Graphics Artist
Apple-certified Master Trainer
Author, Motion 4 from Peachpit Press
https://www.applemotion.net -
You’ll find it in the Camera menu – top left of the Canvas. F or Command-F, depending on what you are trying to do.
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Mark Spencer
Freelance Producer/Editor/Motion Graphics Artist
Apple-certified Master Trainer
Author, Motion 4 from Peachpit Press
https://www.applemotion.net -
Sure just use the box tool in the Keyframe editor to draw a box around the keyframes and then scale down the box from the right side.
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Mark Spencer
Freelance Producer/Editor/Motion Graphics Artist
Apple-certified Master Trainer
Author, Motion 4 from Peachpit Press
https://www.applemotion.net -
You can turn on the keyframes in Motion’s Timeline (as opposed to the Keyframe Editor) where it’s a little easier to select single or multiple keyframes and move them all at once in time without any risk of changing values.
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Mark Spencer
Freelance Producer/Editor/Motion Graphics Artist
Apple-certified Master Trainer
Author, Motion 4 from Peachpit Press
https://www.applemotion.net -
Can’t you just move the keyframes closer together or further apart?
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Mark Spencer
Freelance Producer/Editor/Motion Graphics Artist
Apple-certified Master Trainer
Author, Motion 4 from Peachpit Press
https://www.applemotion.net