Animations- Title Options

Title Options
The Title Options Inspector lets you change the attributes of selected titles in the Storyboard/Timeline. You can make changes to multiple titles at once by selecting several titles in the Storyboard/Timeline, and then making the desired modifications in the Title Options Inspector.

A title can have multiple fonts, styles, colors, paragraph alignments, etc. and span several lines of text. You can modify text attributes using the standard Mac OS X font panel or the menu command available in the Format menu.
To edit a title, double click it in the Stage. The title frame will switch from a thin frame to a thicker frame with two resizing handles on the left and right edge. The text is already selected so you can start typing. If you want to reflow the text, click on one of the handles to resize the width of the title's
frame.

Format

Click the font buttons to show/hide the Font panel and Color panel. Click on the alignment buttons to
change the alignment of the selected text. If a title is currently being edited (thick selection frame),
each paragraph in a title can have a different alignment. If a title is not currently being edited (thin
selection frame) the alignment is applied to the entire text of a title.

In the Font p
anel you can use advanced typographic features like shadows, ligatures, etc. The
Font panel also includes controls for changing kerning and leading. Click on the + or -
buttons to increase or decrease kerning or leading of the selected text. Press the Shift key
to go in 10x increments.

Select the title and click the Color button to display the Color panel. You can select colors or
you can create transparent titles by reducing the visibility in the Color panel. Please note that
this will affect the entire title. You cannot change the visibility of individual characters
separately.

In some cases it may be easier to prepare your text in TextEdit and save it as an RTF file,
which is then imported into FotoMagico as a title.

Visibility

Use the Visibility controls if you don’t want a title layer to be visible during the whole duration of a
slide. Drag in the darker triangles (located on the outside) to restrict visibility to a certain range. Drag
the lighter triangles (located on the inside) (creating a ramp in the curve) to fade-in and fade-out the
title layer. The yellow sections in the bar represent the incoming and outgoing transition intervals.

The popup menu to the right contains several useful presets: Reset, Fade In, Fade Out, Fade
In/Out.

Animation

When animation is enabled in the Slide Options Inspector, you can use the Animation controls to fine
tune animation timing. The darker triangles (located on the outside) determine when an animations
begins and ends. The lighter triangles (located on the inside) adjust the fade-in and fade-out of the
animation. Refer to Fine Tuning Animation for more details.


Text copied from: http://81.169.140.228/download/boinx/fotomagico/FotoMagico4-Manual.pdf