Motion frames - Help!!

I've just recently joined the mac revolution and still finding my way round everything. Im trying to create a text effect in motion and so far I've managed to make the graphic come in from the left, I now want it to stay on the screen for a certain number of frames before exiting back to the left. I know I could probably do it frame by frame but is there a way of freezing the timeline to a certain point then start the effect at say frame 90 and end at frame 100 instead of it gradually occuring through out?
I used to work with flash on my pc and this would work by inserting keyframes on the timeline and the graphics would not move until I put another keyframe in. Is there anything similar to this on motion?
I'm new to this so if you explain in the simplest possible way it would be appreciated!!

hi,
yes you can exactly the same thing in motion. One way to achieve this would be to do this:
create your text object and place it in the middle of the screen ( or where ever you want it to be still), move the playhead to point where you want to start. That is to say where it will stop moving after it has come in. With the text object selected go to the Inspector and add a key frame for the position. Then move the playhead to the beginning of the sequence. Move the text to where you want it off stage and add a keyframe. it should now move on and stay put. Move the playhead to where you want it to start moving off in the timeline. Add a keyframe. Now move the playhead to where it should stop moving. Move the text obect off stage and add a keyframe.
There are many other ways of doing this, behaviours as Adam mentions is another way. Keep playing around it'll click soon
hth
adam

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