Hey, everyone, Kelsey here and welcome back to GAL.
Today, I'm showing you how to create that awesome 80s retro text that you just saw
in the opening just using Built-In Effects in Premiere Pro.
So what exactly is going to be covered?
Well, you're going to learn
how to use the Essential graphics panel to create the text
and use the new gradient fill that's now available for text,
which is a new feature, by the way, that was not available
in the essential graphics panel.
So after that, you will learn how to apply a bunch
of really cool distortion effects such as Bevel
and Emboss and channel blur layers to make it look more retro.
And of course, I'm going to show you how to do the keyframe animations.
You're going to learn some animation techniques for the text itself.
And you'll also learn how to save it as a motion
graphics template that you can use over and over again for your future videos.
And the title template that we'll be making,
I have it for free for my patron's.
So details below on how to get this template for free
by joining my Patreon community.
And lastly, you'll also put some icing on the cake
with some really cool TV distortion effects and some glitch effects as well.
Some video and sound effects from Storyblocks and Storyblocks
is the sponsor of today's video.
With storyblocks, you can download unlimited
audio, video and templates for your video projects.
It's really cool.
I'll tell you more about it later on in the video.
But for now, all the details are just down below and the time codes.
So if you want to review any section,
you will find all the time codes just below in my description box.
Without further ado, let's go ahead and jump on in.
So first, let's start with making our text.
Go to the text tool and let's type out retro on the program panel for this text.
I'm using a font called The Bold Font, and it's completely free.
And I've left a link below if you want to try it out.
You don't have to use this font.
Just make sure you use a font that's nice and bold and thick.
So once you have the sizing right, you can center the text and then use
the center alignment tools to get it into the center of the frame.
Now let's stylez the fill with a gradient.
First, select the color fill, and then you can choose a linear gradient.
And for the far left color, let's make this a purple pinkish color.
And for the far right color, I'll choose a blue color.
And then you can click here to create a third color in the center.
This is called a color stop. And I'm going to make it a black color.
So it's going to go from pink, black to blue.
And then you can move these color
keyframes here to adjust the color midpoints, then press, OK.
And now we have our linear gradient.
So next, we can add a stroke.
I'm going to add a nice light blue stroke and I'll increase
the width of the stroke to around five.
And now we can make our second line of text.
I'm going to use the type tool again and type out the word 80s.
In this time, I'm going to change the font to lobster font.
This is also free and I'm going to change the size to make it a bit smaller.
And then I will use the position controls
to move it right underneath the retro text on the right.
So for the 80s, I'm going to do some customizations to the fill.
So for the stroke, I'm just going to uncheck it so there's no stroke
and I'm going to select the gradient and change it to a two color gradient.
So I'm going to delete that middle
color and I will change the second color to a darker purple.
So now you'll see that
we have two layers of text from our Essential graphics panel.
In the layers work just like Photoshop, whichever layer is on top
will be the closest to the foreground.
So if you want the 80s text to be in front of the retro text
that we made, first, make sure it's the first layer on the top.
And so now is the fun part.
This is where we get to make it
look old by applying a bunch of really cool distortion effects.
So let's start with the bevel effect.
Go to effects and search for the effect bevel alpha.
And let's drag this on to our graphic layer in the timeline.
You'll notice that this effect is obsolete from the effects.
I don't know why Adobe has put this effect as obsolete,
because the new Bevill effects do not work as good .
So I would certainly not mark this as obsolete because
we're going to be using it in this video.
So you can just ignore that to see how this effect is affecting our text.
Let's zoom into our program panel to 200 percent.
Now we can adjust the effect parameters from the effect controls
all increase the thickness to around five.
And you can adjust this however much you want.
So I'll have my thickness at five, my light angle at minus 60,
and I'll also increase the intensity of the light to one.
So now, by turning the effect on and off, you can see the before
and after, and it's starting to look a little bit more 80s.
Now, let's add another Stylez effect search for color emboss.
Let's drag it on to our clip here.
Under effect controls the direction slider, adjust the angle of the emboss.
So you can move this number around until you get it into the right spot.
So then you can adjust the relief controls.
The higher you move the slider, the more distortion you'll get.
So I'm going to leave mine around four so I can get a little bit of distortion,
a little bit of that green color coming in.
Then I'll move the contrast to 150, and you can also choose to blend it.
With the original just a little bit.
So now we can see the before and after, and you can see now we have a little bit
more shininess and distortion, but it still looks a little bit too in focus.
So this is where we can use
a channel blur to blur some of the colors to make it less sharp.
So go to Effect's search for Channel Blur and drag it on to the clip.
Now, the reason why I'm using the channel blur
and not the Gaussian blur is because with the channel blur, you can blur
specific colors from the RGV colors, the red, blue and green.
The guassian blur just makes an overall blur.
And it doesn't look as good as doing the fine tuned adjustments
with the channel blur.
So look at what happens as I increase the blurriness of each color.
It starts to blur just that specific color.
But I don't want it to be too much.
So I'm going to actually just keep it
very subtle and I'll set each color blur to just five.
Now we can add a noise effect to the layer.
So search for noise and drag it on to the clip.
And let's increase this amount to around 15 or 20 percent
just to give it a little bit more distortion.
Be sure to have the noise effect.
The very top of the Acento Graphics panel, because the noise is below the blur.
Then the noise, the grain that we added will get blurred also.
And we want the noise to be there because it's kind of like a retro effect.
So make sure that the noise is at the top.
So now that we added all of the really cool distortion on top of the tax,
now we can move on
to adding our background video behind the text and some animation.
So you can add a stock video clip or you can add some video
clips that you recorded for a music video, for example.
And if you want to learn how to do some cool visual effects
with like a cool play button, I've made a whole nother tutorial on how to do that.
So you can click up here to watch that video.
So for this particular effect, what I've done is
I've downloaded this really cool motion, graphic animation of this grid
kind of going back in space.
It looks very 80s style from story blocks.
And what I've done is I've just imported into my project panel
drag and drop it beneath the graphics layer.
So it's behind the text.
And to match the text, I'm going to copy the noise effect
as well as the channel blur effect and paste it onto the video clip beneath .
So it has that same sort of look.
What I love about Storyblocks is that, you know, I went through and I downloaded
a bunch of different 80s style of motion graphics to see which one worked best.
And that's what's so great about story blocks, is that it's unlimited.
So when you sign up for an unlimited plan, you can download
as many different graphics as you want to test it out for your video.
Because certainly the first one that you try may not work in
every single clip that you download is Watermark Free.
Now, they also have a ton of 80s style titles.
So what I'm showing you in this video is just one style that you can try out.
Let's say you need multiple different styles.
You can try out some of their Premiere Pro and after effects templates
to see if it might work for your video.
And you can download it as many times as you want.
And also, they have sound effects and music.
And I will show you which sound effects.
I chose to really bring
my 80s title to life because sound design is super important.
So if you want to try out in a limited plan, you can go to storybooks,
dot com, slash Premiere. Go and go try it out for yourself.
Thank you so much to storybooks for sponsoring today's video.
And let's go ahead and jump back into the tutorial.
So now that we have our background, let's animate the tax on top,
starting super close up and then going back into space.
So to do this, let's keyframe the vector motion scaling position
since we want the text to end up in this exact size that it's currently in.
Let's first move our play head to this point where we want the animation to end.
Then what you can do is click the stopwatch next to the scale.
And the position here in a will create our end point keyframe.
Now we can pull the play head
back to the beginning of the clip and let's scale it up a ton.
So we don't see the text at all.
So we're going to have to scale it up over 3000, maybe around 3600.
And then we have to move the position controls so we don't see
any of the edges of the text in the black frame because we want it
to look like it's just coming past us as a viewer from the frame.
Now, what we can do to make it more smooth is we can right click on these
and two key frames here and we can set them to ease in.
So now when we play it back, it starts completely out of frame
and zooms out into that original location.
But you'll notice that because we are using the vector motion, the text doesn't
get blurry in more pixellated as it's more zoomed in, it stays in focus.
So to fix that well, we have to do is apply a blur, a guardian blur.
And we need to animate, keyframe that blurriness to start super blurry.
And then once it gets to its final position, there's no blur at all.
So it's really easy to do. Just go to eFax,
search for Gaussian, blur, apply it to the graphics layer again.
So just like before.
Let's set a keyframe.
Year when the animation is done at zero, blurriness
by clicking the stopwatch next to blurriness, then we need to pull it back
earlier in the animation and increase the blurriness.
Let's say to around 200 now between these two key
frames, it goes from super blurry to in focus.
And now we can do the same for the Outro animation.
This time we want it to zoom out into the background.
So I'll click this dot here on the scale and this will set a key frame.
Then I'll move the play head forward to when I want the text
to disappear into the background and I'll reduce the scale down to zero.
So now it zooms out like it's shrinking in the back of the video.
And we also need to keyframe the blurriness here
so that another keyframe at the beginning of this Altra animation,
and I'll move it forward towards the end of that, zoom out.
It will increase the blurriness to around 20, just a subtle amount.
And now it animates in and out with this really cool blur.
So what we have right here, the text animation,
you can actually turn this text animation into a motion graphics template.
So before we do that, I want to show you how to add handles to your animation.
So that way, if you change the duration of this graphics,
layering your timeline at any time, the animation will remain the same.
What we need to do is from effect controls, you can pull out
this white handle to encompass both the in and out animations.
So that way, when you change the length of the graphic player in the timeline,
the animation, the little white handles remain the same
and exported as a template, you can just simply right
click on this layer
and export it as a motion graphics template
and you can save it to your local templates folder.
And from there, you can go to a central graphics and drag
and drop this title animation into your timeline
and reuse it over and over again as an optional effect.
At the very end of the video, after it zooms out on the video layer,
you can add a really cool TV turn off effect.
And this is actually from a film impact.
And I love film impact transitions because it's really easy.
You can just drag and drop it onto the clip.
So I'm just going to search for my effects
for this turn off effect and just drag it out the end of the clip.
And then there's a nice TV turn-off effect.
And what we can do now is add
some really cool sound effects to really bring this to life.
So what I've done is I've added in a really cool 80s music
track from Storyblocks, as well as some sound effects,
such as a cosmic stinger passing for that opening animation.
And then I added some hits and some power down effects
to match the animation I also added and some glitches.
So this is what it looks like with the sound effects added.
Now for the glitches, sound effects.
This is where I actually decided to change
and add some war effects to the visuals, because when the glitches are going,
I want the techs to kind of glitch, kind of like an old VHS effect.
So this is how sound can kind of inform your design. Right.
So to create the glitch effect, to match the sound effects
glitches, to kind of have the text and the visuals glitch.
What we can do is we can create a glitch effect
using the turbulent displace effect.
So to do that, we need to first create an adjustment layer.
You can right click on your project panel
and then you can create an adjustment layer and just drag this new adjustment
layer on top of both the graphic layer and the video layer.
And then you can resize the adjustment layer to perfectly.
And when the graphic layer in the video layer ends, then go to effects and search
for turbulent displays, and you'll see that we have some adjustments to do.
So this is where we need to go to the effect controls.
And what I did from the dropdown, I chose horizontal displacement.
So that way it's horizontally displacing the text.
And then I increase the amount to 250.
I set the size to five and the complexity to three point five
or four somewhere around there.
And you can see it's starting to look like TV static.
Now, right now, this effect is just static. It's not moving.
So we need to add some animation, right? We need to add keyframes.
So that way it goes from no glitching to glitching, to no glitching and then
glitching again and no glitching to match the sound effect .
So to do that, we need to do some key framing on these particular parameters.
So I'll set a key frame by pressing the stopwatch
next to the amount, size and complexity parameters.
At the moment, I want it to glitch
and then I'll move the play,
head back a few frames and I'll bring all these parameters back down to zero.
And then I'll move two frames past the middle keyframe here
and I'll bring it back down to zero.
So now it goes from zero complexity up to fast complexity
and then back down to zero. And so now we have these three key frames.
And what we can do is we can select all three of them
and we can copy them, and then we can paste and copy and paste
these key frames to match that glitchy sound effect.
And so now we can play it back.
And you can see the little glitch kind of matches that sound effect.
And that's one way that sound effects can shape your design and has a final touch.
I decided to add another adjustment
layer on top of the graphic in the video, a color balance effect.
So I went to effects and I search for color balance
Arjay B, and from here from the effect controls,
I wanted to distort the color a little bit to make it a little bit more retro.
So what I did was I just moved these sliders around
for the red, green and blue until it looked right.
And now the color balancing is a little bit off.
It doesn't look like today's perfectly color balanced video. Right.
So here is the final result with all the effects of it.
So that's all for this video.
I hope that inspired you to play around with retro TV effects that you can use
maybe in your next lyric video .
This is a great effect that you can use for music videos.
You can also use it in any type of video edit.
And remember, you can save it as a motion graphics template.
Or if you want to get the motion graphics template
that we created in this tutorial for free, you can join my Patreon community.
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