Hi there, my name is Dan.
You, and me are going to learn...
how to create a full screen background video website.
Both, the video creation, and building a website.
Now there are loads of videos here, like this one, on my channel...
but if you want more, check out my website...
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Hey, in this video we're going to look at...
creating a Type Animation in After Effects.
A nice simple one, just to get us going in After Effects.
So we're going to grab the 'Type' tool, click that once.
Now in the middle of our stage here we're going to click once...
and you'll see we get given a new line.
We're going to start typing, we're just going to type in our name.
Let's type in, I'm going to type in 'BYOL'.
So I'm going to select it all.
Just drag a box over it, select it, and I'm going to pick a font.
So the font's over here under 'Character' window.
If you can't see, sorry, the character panel, go to 'Window'...
and you should see it in there, 'Character', to bring it up.
And I'm going to make mine a little bit bigger, to see it a bit better.
And pick a font, any font, doesn’t matter what font you use.
So I'm going to use 'Museo', my favourite new one.
I'm going to use the 'Museo Slab'.
700.
Size wise, in terms of the drop down menu here you can pick this.
Its your standard fonts.
They only go up to 72 for some magic reason.
What you can do though is, with it selected-- watch this...
You can just obviously type in there...
you can click in here and make it '120'...
but you'll find that everything in After Effects is what’s called 'scrubbable’.
It means that it can be clicked and dragged across.
So if I hover above any of these blue things...
I'm going to use font size, click, hold, and drag it to the right...
and you can see, it updates my font size on the right side.
Left and right.
So get it up to a bigish size, mine's up to 210. I'm not too worried.
To physically move it around now, go to this tool here.
It’s a little black arrow called the selection tool. Click this.
I'm going to move it down.
I've got a font, I've got a color.
Now if yours is coming out a different color...
highlight the text with the 'Type' tool...
and here’s your color thing here.
You can pick some basic black and white...
or you can click on this white or black box here, the bigger version...
and you can use this to scroll up and down...
to get the hue.
Once you’ve picked a hue--
I'm going to pick something in there.
and you can click in here to pick the color.
Can you see it updating on the right?
So you have to click in here.
If you want it to be pure white...
you click and drag it up to the corner, or down here to the black.
I'm going to pick something in this murky blue.
I'll make it a little more green. Click okay.
The other thing you might notice is that its pretty poor quality.
You can see on my screen here...
well it depends on how you're viewing your video...
you might stick it with HD.
but in terms of mine, mine's viewing at what’s called 'Quarter'.
Yours is probably defaulting to 'Auto' and probably got 'Full'.
It just means that, with it set to 'Auto' its going to try and guess...
is your machine old and crappy, it might go 'Auto'...
it might go down to 'Quarter' automatically...
but if you're machine's reasonably good...
and its not being stretched out at the moment...
its probably going to default to 'Auto'.
So leave it on 'Auto' and it will jump up and down, as it needs to.
If you want to force it, say you want to see the quality of the image...
you can force it to be 'Full'.
I often force it to be 'Full'...
just because my machine's pretty good
and I like to always look at it as good quality.
But that’s not always true, you might have to jump it down to 'Quarter'.
It just means quarter quality.
It doesn’t change the output of it.
The quality is still, when you finally render it...
its going to be as good as you make it.
It’s going to be full HD, this one.
It just means while you're previewing it...
its going to be a little bit lower quality.
Alright, so to do our animation...
we're going to make sure our timeline is all the way back here.
This things called our CTI, our Current Time Indicator.
Nobody calls it that though, it’s the Play Head.
So we’re just going to call it the Play Head.
So we're going to drag it along, right to the zero, zero.
You can tell when its zero zero, over here on the left.
And what I'm going to do is, I'm going to zoom out a little bit.
We were on 'Fit' before...
so I'm going to zoom out to maybe 50% just so I can see the edges.
Now you might be working on a really big iMac...
so you'll be able to see it at full, depending on your screen.
I'm working on my little laptop here so I've got it at 50%.
What you can also do is, for shortcuts for zooming in and out...
its really quite common, if you hold down the 'Control' key and hit plus, '+'
it zooms in, and minus '-', it comes out.
If you're on a Mac, hold down 'Command +' and '-' to zoom in and out.
What I'd like to do is, my animation's going to start off here, on the right.
So I'm just going to click and drag it with my 'Selection' tool.
And what we're going to do is...
we're going to animate this layer here called BYOL.
We’re going to twirl down the edge.
We're going to twirl down 'Transform'...
and this is where our basic animation happens.
You can see we can animate something called the anchor point...
the position where it is on the page, the scale of it...
the rotation, and how we see through it, the opacity.
So, at the beginning here, I want to set my little key frame for position.
To do that, can you see this little guy down here.
He's quite small, he's a stopwatch.
Literally, like I'm going to click the stopwatch...
and it’s going to start watching what I do.
So it's going to click it, and now it’s thinking and watching what I'm doing.
So what its done, its put a key frame here, this little diamond...
to say at frame '0', I am here at this x and y position.
And if I move it along a little bit, how far, it’s up to you.
I'm going to go maybe a second and a half.
And watch this, I'm going to click, hold, and drag it across.
If you just drag it, it kind of goes wily nily.
If you hold 'Shift' while you're dragging...
it drags it across perfectly straight, its up to you.
Can you see, its put another key frame in there at a different position.
So my play head here, there he is.
He's off screen, but when I get across to this one, he's on screen.
So drag your play head back...
hit 'space bar' on your keyboard, preview it, and it slides in.
Its not very exciting, its just sliding across, but yeah, well done.
We've done our first bit of animation in After Effects.
Two key frames, a bit of boring type, and it slides in and we are awesome.
One thing you might notice is mine's a little bit jumpy compared to yours...
yours might be even more jumpy.
When I hit 'space bar', what we're going to do is--
Keep an eye on this info panel here.
If you don’t have the info panel...
go to 'Window' and find it.
There he is there.
Make sure he's 'on'.
And what you're going to do is, hit 'space bar'.
I'm just going to keep an eye over here, watch this.
Hit 'space bar'.
And it’s previewing perfectly.
How I know its not previewing perfectly?
Its jumpy, and it will go red over here, and it will just give you...
an indication of how fast it’s trying to play.
Watch this, if I adjust my key frames a little bit.
If I hit 'space bar' now, watch what happens over here, if I hit 'space bar'...
it’s trying its best and it caught up with it fine.
You might have it where---
Your computer might be a little bit old or bit full up.
It might be running pretty slowly.
What ends up happening is it'll play once and try its best to get through...
and then when it loops back around it will play nice.
Can you see mine's not quite keeping up...
but then it plays a second time and its all happy days. Mostly happy days.
Its dropping off a little bit, all I have to do is drop it down to half...
hit 'space bar'...
and it will play-- its still not quite keeping up even at that low quality.
The reason mine is doing so badly is...
I've got screen capturing software running on mine...
so that you can follow along obviously with the videos...
and it stresses my poor little machine out a little bit.
So I'm going to back to 'Auto' and then it can decide itself.
See its decided 'half'.
Alright, so that’s our first bit of animation, it slides in.
The next thing we're going to do is get it to pause for a little while...
which its already doing, you can see it just pauses, pauses, pauses...
and then what we're going to do is we're going to get it to maybe drop down.
So what we’re going to do is towards the end here...
so maybe at about 8 seconds, I'd like it to start falling.
So to do that, what we need to do is...
we want a key frame here to keep it right here...
because if I start dragging it down now--
This happens quite a bit with people.
Watch this, I've got a key frame here, where its at the beginning...
a key frame here where he slides in...
but then all the way between this guy and this guy...
he's trying his very best to get down there.
What I want to do is, between these two key frames...
is just to wait for me...
and then I want the animation to happen in this last little piece here.
So I'm going to undo, so instead of dragging it down here...
what we're going to do is we're going to manually add a key frame...
and that’s what this little diamond down here does, watch, if I click it...
hey, we've got a key frame over here, it just says, remain where you are.
So, key frame on the right, in the center...
another one in the center so he just sits there...
and then the last one at 9 seconds.
For some reason I've got a bit of black video at the end here.
That’s my fault, its not meant to be a black video.
That’s just my little mix up when I made the little particle video.
So what we're going to do is click, hold, and drag it down.
What was the key I hold down to make sure it goes in a straight line?
'Shift', you got it. So I'm going to drag it just off screen...
now I'm going to hit 'space bar' and its going to play.
It comes along, waits for a little while...
and then the particles fall, and then down he goes.
Okay, that’s a little bit of animation.
It’s a little bit what I like to call PowerPointy.
Its not very super slick and hasn’t got any neutering movements.
All kind of clunky at the moment but we'll fix that up in another video.
But that’s it, well done, buddies.
We have made our first bit of Type Animation.
Let's make sure we save it and move onto the next video.