In this video, I'm gonna show you how you can create this fun text effect. So really
this effect is to put text behind a subject in your frame, and we're gonna use Canva Pro
and you're gonna be mind blown how easy this is, especially if you've ever spent time in
visual effects programs like After Effects and tried to manually key out a subject.
So let's not waste any more time. Let's hop into Canva Pro and I'll show you exactly how
we do it. Okay, so here we are at the homepage of Canva. Let's just go up to the top right
corner and press create design. And here we can type in YouTube video and you'll see YouTube
video right here. And this will give us the right dimensions and settings that we need
to edit video in Camba.
And now I'll just need to upload a video that I want to add this effect to. So if you wanna
add the effect to just a few words, then you can do what I did, which is to actually create
an export of just those few words in your video editing software, which is what I did
using Adobe Premier. So then you can come along the left hand side here in Canva and
click on uploads.
And then under videos you can upload your own video. And I uploaded my video here. Let's
check it out. This fun text effect. Okay. And you'll notice when you just click on the
video that it doesn't actually fill the full page, which is good for this effect. We're
gonna wait a minute before we fill the whole page so we have a some room to move things
around.
And what we want to do is get the text behind me. So what we really want to do is to. The
background from my video in Canva has an amazing background remover effect from video, and
it's really cool. It especially works great if you want to use a green screen or a blue
screen, and if you're in a room like this, we'll see how it turns out, but you can experiment
with maybe having a back light hit the back of your head.
Or being nice and far away from your background or having a solid colored background, you're
gonna get a better result from this effect. Okay, so I'm gonna go ahead and copy and paste
this and kind of move these layers around. And then on this top layer here, I'm actually
gonna come up to where it says edit video and look, there's this effect right here.
It says Background or mover. And it is in beta right now. So the more people that use
it, the better it will get as it collects data. And this is very similar to when they
did the background remover on photos. And I actually did a video right here where I
show you how to remove the background from photos and create this similar effect with
photos.
And so we'll wait for this to remove the background and see how it does. Okay, so it looks like
it did a pretty good job. We could watch it by pressing play here. This fun text effect.
Okay. So there was a little trippy stuff going on with my hand and the lamp behind me. So
if I wanted to, I could redo this effect and kind of maybe kill that lamp behind me.
That's probably because it's similar to my hand color. So you can see this technology,
they're still learning. It's a very impress. Artificial intelligence technology, it's gonna
look cool for this effect anyway, because this effect is gonna play so quickly and this
effect and any other kind of purpose you want to use this for might kind of fall into a
little bit of that kind of gimmicky look of an effect.
But it can be really fun if you just want to quickly put yourself in space or in. Ancient
Rome. Okay, so now what we're gonna do is we're actually going to click on the text
button over here on the left hand side and we're gonna add the word this in all caps.
I'll also turn, change the color of this to a white color and we can adjust the size here
in the font size.
I'm gonna click in here and just put in like 300, cuz I think it's gonna need to be pretty
big. And I'll adjust the text box here so it's nice and snug on this and we'll make
this really nice and. I like to keep the text box actually inside the frame of the video.
That helps when things get a little tricky later with Canva as far as keeping our layers
organized.
And now you'll notice that my background removed layer of me is still behind this. So with
this layer selected, we can come up to where it says, Position here, and you'll see we
can bring it forward or backward. And Canva also gives us the quick key for that, which
is on a Mac command bracket or on a pc that would be control bracket.
So I can just come out here with this layer selected. I'll press command bracket, and
now it's in front and we just kind of slide it right back on top where it belongs. And
that looks great, and we can check out how that looks now by pressing play this fun text
effect. So you can see there's a little wishy-washy stuff around my hands, but it looks pretty
cool to have the word behind me.
So now what we need to do is change this word every time I change a word. And we can also
animate the way that the text comes in. So what I'll do back to my timeline again here
is down here at the bottom, we can actually toggle between a zoom page or our zoom thumb
nail. The Zoom, if we want a zoom page, is really referring to this timeline down here.
And I can now increase the zoom page, which is good because this will allow me to make
some cuts or some splits along the timeline. Let's go ahead and add an animation to the
word this. So I'll kind of scoop my top layer out of the way so I can access this and I'll
say animate. And let's do this one shift.
And we'll say just on enter, I wanna make sure that it's just on enter. You can do it
by. This. That's kind of fun. And we can make the speed really fast. This, this, and we'll
make the speed as fast as it goes. That looks pretty cool. And then I can slide this back
on and we can always look how that looks now, this fun text effect.
Cool. And now this is gonna go faster once we make some splices, so let's do that. I'm
gonna press play here. And right before I say the word fun, I'm gonna press the s. To
make a split this. Okay, and I stopped it. Now I'll press S and make a split. And now
I'll do that again. Fun. And then I'll press an S right before I say text.
And then I'll do that again. Right before I say the word effect, text effect, Ooh, I
kind of missed a missed effects. I'll scoot back just a little bit and press s. If I click
on the second clip, we can now grab this top layer, kind of move him out of the way for
a minute, we'll click on. And now let's type in the word fun and we'll do all caps again
with fun.
The size actually looks pretty good. We could probably make fun even bigger, but I think
that size looks pretty good. Let's make it a little bit bigger and stay inside the the
frame a little bit so there's fun. We slide him on top of there, and now we can go ahead
and go to the next clip. Let's grab this top layer of me, kind of pull him off.
And we're gonna type in the word text and we're gonna need to shrink the text down.
So again, I'll come up here to the font size and let's just type in 400 instead of four
80. We'll keep text with the same animation that we had on this, but let's go back to
fun and change the animation. I'll click on fun and I'll say, instead of shift, let's
do.
Let's do skate. There we go. And it will skate in. I wanna make sure to click on on enter
so it doesn't skate out. I think that would be too much animation. So we'll grab him,
uh, this top layer and put him on top again. And now let's go to the last one. This grab
my top me and pull him out of the way. And we'll click on this.
I'm gonna change this to 200. The size of this, cuz I know effect is a bigger. And we'll
type in effect. Let's hug it with the text box and expand it like so.
Perfect. And then we'll snap him. He should snap right into place and sandwich on top
of that. And now we have our effect so we can watch it. This fun text effect. Pretty
cool. I would say. You can see it's not perfect, but the more we get in here and use this and
play around with this. The better it will get.
Camba will do a great job to improve over time when it comes outta beta. So now the
last thing we have to do is adjust the size of all of these, and maybe I could have done
that first, but I find it's easier with the order of the layers to kind of wait till the
end. To do this, I'm gonna go ahead and press command A or control A on a PC when I'm clicked
on this page and it will highlight everything in the design.
And now as I scale it up, it should snap right into. Where it belongs and it does, and you
can see as it snapped into place. It also told me 1920 by 10 80, which is what I want,
so I just need to repeat that on each of these pages. Click on it, command A.
Oh. But see, in this case I'm gonna have a little bit of trouble because the fun, the
text box actually goes outside of the frame and that's gonna gimme a little bit of trouble.
So I'm gonna bring fun down.
That way it won't give me as much trouble. Snap it into place. Okay. And now we can watch
it one final time to see how it turned out. This fun text effect. Okay. That turned out
pretty good. And like I said, I have a blue screen that I could have just dragged in here
behind me real quick for this. That way I'd have the same lighting, the same outfit, the.
Scene that I'm in, but I give Canva a much easier background to remove. But I think sort
of the appeal of this effect is to not have to use a green screen, right? So get in there,
play around with it. Tell us what you think. Make sure to leave a comment below. Also,
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And also, like I mentioned earlier in the video, remember I made this video here where
I show you how to do this same text effect, but behind photos, and it works really great
using the background remover effect in Camba. So check out that video here.