Motion lets you add text to your project in the Canvas—select the Text tool, click in the Canvas, then start typing. After you create the text, you can apply text styles, special effects filters, animation behaviors, and keyframes. (For details on animating text, see Animating Text.) You can modify text as a whole object, or as separate glyphs (characters), allowing for endless combinations of effects.
After you create a text treatment—a text style with the perfect gradient colors, radiant glow, or customized behavior—you can save the behavior or style in the Library for use on other text treatments, or to use in a future project.