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My Top Pro Tip for Working with Text in Apple Motion

Simon Ubsdell July 9, 2025
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Discover how to format text like a pro and save yourself many hours and much heartache – and have a lot of creative fun while you’re doing it.

(I made an earlier version of this tutorial several years ago but I thought it could do with a fresh update and some more interesting tricks.)

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Simon Ubsdell
Hi, I'm Simon Ubsdell, Creative Director of TOKYO PRODUCTIONS, a UK-based boutique creative shop specializing in movie trailers, sales promos and TV Spots for the independent film sector both in the UK and across Europe. I've been a film and video editor for over 25 years as well as being involved in motion graphics, sound design and mixing, music composition, visual effects and compositing, 3D modelling and animation, and colour grading, not to mention writing, directing and producing, and most recently, software development. I am also a developer of plug-ins for the video post-production market having released a range of successful and acclaimed products both under the Tokyo brand and as Hawaiki with Robert Mackintosh.

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