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User Guide
Text Effects
Make your text and graphic objects behave in a variety of entertaining ways using Text Effects
plug-ins. Choose from a range of presets in the EasyPalette, or design your own using the
Attribute Panel, and create animated text titles for your video clips in a few easy steps. Not
only for letters, some of the effects under this category produce interesting results when applied
to 3D objects.
Blast
Have fun exploding an object, and then have the pieces come back together to form something
new. The easiest way to apply this effect is to apply a Blast preset from the EasyPalette. For
more advanced users, the many variables on the Attribute Panel allow you to control the effect
to amazing detail. In the following tutorial, we’ll explode a graphic and have it turn into text.
(Settings: 30 frames, 15 fps.)
To apply a Blast transition:
1
Insert a graphic object in the Edit Window.
Click Add plug-in and select Blast in the
Attribute Panel.
2
At frame 1, clear the Use Original option in
the Attribute Panel. Click Text Object
Target under Target. In the dialog box that
appears, enter the text object that you want
to replace the original object with.
3
Set the Shape to Sphere, and the Collapse
to All.
4
Set the Size of the pieces to 5 and the
Action to All. The Level should be 100 by
default.
5
Select Swirl as the Movement Type.
6
Click Play to preview the animated
sequence.
