Creating Effects from Scratch

Instead of limiting the title to a prebuilt effect as in the last exercise, you can also create an effect from scratch by adding keyframes and changing motion parameters. In this exercise, you will create your own motion path for the title before adding an additional LiveType effect and a texture background.

1.	Choose Track > Add New Effect, or press Cmd-E. A new effect bar appears under the title track in the Timeline.
2.	Click the right edge of the effect bar and drag right to give it a 2-second duration.
3.	In the Canvas zoom pop-up menu, change the size to 50% to allow you to see your motion path more easily.
4.	Move the playhead to the beginning of the Timeline to specify where the animation is to begin. Make sure the effect bar is selected in the Timeline by clicking it.
5.	In the Canvas, click the last s and Shift-drag it left until it is outside the viewable area. When you release the mouse, all the letters follow, and the text disappears because it has moved left out of the frame. Though the letters are gone, in their place is a bounding box for the letter you dragged and a motion path from the title's offscreen position to the original position. The wireframe preview is now showing the animation you created.
6.	Click once in the Canvas to remove the bounding box. Click Play to view the animation. The animation loads into memory and then plays in a loop.
7.	Toggle the Canvas Continous Loop button to play the animation without looping. You have now specified that the title will start off-frame and end in the center. LiveType has interpolated the in-between frames to create the animation.