My friend Lila from YouTube published a killer video on how to do text reveal
with an expensive and well-known software and I said, "Man! I wish we could
do that in Filmora!" Then I thought, wait a second...I bet we can!
Stick around I'll show you how
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The first thing I did was to find a piece of footage
that would work for my reveal
Just something with an object moving from one side of the screen
to the other in this case I just
chose a guy on a bike
now this part is important don't skip over this
We're going to be slicing the footage so it's important
that the footage itself is in
a nice round FPS number that lends itself to splitting.
This piece was at 29.97
so I just bounced it out to 60 frames per second and brought it back
into Filmora. One frame per second seemed to make sense to my fuzzy head
What you'll want to do is bring that back into Filmora and down into your timeline
next create two more tracks using the add track feature right click on your
main footage and then choose copy select the top track and paste into it that
track directly above and aligned with the main track below leaving one track
open between them we're going to create a text sandwich here and you'll see why
in a second find the spot where you want your text to begin in this case I chose
write with a bicyclist rode past the tree I'm going to split my footage in
the upper track right there just the top track not the bottom in the
upper left click on titles and let's select some text to use I'm going to use
the default titles which has no extra components or animation to it just the
very basic text let's bring that down into the timeline and align it to begin
right where we split the footage let's quickly render all of this for a
smoother playback now let me quickly place this text where I want it to begin
by left clicking on it down in my timeline and moving it in the upper
right preview window I can also use the advanced feature to add any kind of
outline or shadowing to the text that might make it pop a little bit more in
this case I thought it would be cool to make it look like the text is casting a
shadow onto the sidewalk from the Sun just like
the other elements in this shot now that I have that figured out I'm gonna leave
it off for right now just so I can focus on the text itself in the timeline let's
open up the effects tab and choose utilities from the drop-down we'll click
on the mask feature and drag that down onto our top track of footage right
where we split it just on that second half now if we double left-click on that
second half of the footage where we applied the mask we can see the mask
options open up in the upper left under the videos tab where it says video
effects let's open up that menu and change the default circle mask to a
different shape I just want a straight vertical line mask for this application
using this mask option you'll see that moving the x-axis to the left
reveals the text from right to left exactly how we need it for my shot but
it may be different for yours so just choose the right mask shape and options
for the direction you need your text to be revealed down in the timeline let's
scroll forward to where that text should begin to be revealed and move forward
frame by frame I'm gonna pay very close attention to the back of this bicyclist
I'll move forward one frame at a time slicing just the upper footage frame by
frame this will allow me to change the mask setting for the individual frames
of the shot when the bicyclist gets to a spot where the text should be revealed
I'll just click on that frame and I'll move the x-axis setting a bit to the
left and try to get the reveal text to line up with his back do the same thing
in your footage frame by frame moving forward slicing your upper footage one
frame at a time and moving the mask so that the text keeps lining up with
whatever object it's supposed to be revealed by stacking these identical
tracks means that we're revealing the text layer below and the identical track
so the only thing your eye really notice is being revealed is the text track
itself because the footage is exactly the same make sure you don't move
anything but the mask you don't want to accidentally nudge your footage or your
text or you'll see it out of alignment later on and it'll be really tough to
get it back in place keep moving forward until you get to the point where all of
the text is revealed and quickly export and voila try this
reveal technique yourself and let me know how it works out and if you want to
learn more cool filmora tips tricks and techniques make sure to click on the
video on screen or down below
Peace!