How can I create Airport Departures Board using Motion 5 ?

Question

I'd like to create an Airport Departures Board using Motion 5. Can anybody give any advice please ?
Tks

Answer 1

mmm.... yeah....
Got Motion 4? A couple of the LiveFonts in M4 or LiveType can create that effect easily, but all that is gone in Motion 5.
In Motion 5, you have to basically fake it.
I'd like to offer this approach as the easiest to implement.
Add a Camera (switch project to 3D).
Create a line of text. (In the inspector, Text > Format > Advanced Formatting, check All Caps and set All Caps size to 100%)
Pick a Monospace font (Monaco, Courier, Andale, Menlo - or find and install one that looks more like you want.)
To the line of text, add Behaviors > Text Energetic > Flip In (you can work on Flip out afterwards - same basic steps)
To the Behavior, use the Parameter > Remove button to remove Face > Blur and Outline > Blur (or just set both to 0%)
Twirl down the Rotation and set the X Rotation to -360 (instead of the default 360 - it's flipping the wrong direction for what you want)
[Optional: Parameter > Add  >  Format > Character Offset -- set it to about 6 -- this will "randomize" the characters as they animate "in"]
Set the playhead to about half way through the animation so you can see some flipping characters
Go to the Text > Layout pane in the inspector
Under Behavior Controls, Anchor Point - click on the Position disclosure triangle and adjust the Y value up until the flipping characters line up to the midpoint of the character.
Play.
With the Flip In behavior selected in the Layers list, adjust the end point to adjust the speed (optional).
You can combine this with Flip Out and timing other text overlaid at the same location to create in/out transitions between texts (old text Flips Out while new text Flips In...).
Build a background to create the "board" with outlines and shading. Line up the texts in space so that they just overlay the background graphic (use Position > Z parameter or set up the graphics to be just below the text in the layer list. In a 3D project, the letters will rotate "through" the solid background.)
At this point, I'll have to leave the rest up to you.  You'll be going for an optical illusion basically. If it animates quickly enough, I doubt most people would notice the difference.
HTH