in this video i show you how to do a text pop effect like this in Shotcut
hi everyone my name is Joe and welcome to Ubitronics on this channel i show you how to use
open source software today we're looking at the pop text effect in Shotcut so to start with i have
created a new project added three clips into the playlist and then dragged them into the timeline
i'm imagining that this is my video and i have completed all of the video editing and as a tip
i would recommend that you do all of your video editing first and then add text and all of these
kind of effects afterwards so now the video is complete let's right click track operations
add new video track and if you're not familiar with tracks in Shotcut the importance of having
text on the top and the video on the bottom is higher so if you have it the other way around
the video will overlap the text and you won't see the text so the text has to be on the top layer
or a higher layer than the video so now the timeline is prepared we're going to add our
template file into the playlist so we can carry on using that template file again and again
so if you have multiple text pop effects that you want on one video then you can
keep on using the same template file and just change the text within it that doesn't make
sense then bear with me it will do in a few seconds first of all come up to open other
and there's two ways you can do this but we're going to do it with the color and then up here
we can change the text to mean something a little bit more relevant i'm just going to call it
template and click ok this effectively creates a transparent layer for us to use where we can
put text on top so we want to save this into the playlist click into the playlist
and then drag from the preview into the playlist and here you can see this is what i called my file
when i first created it and now you can see it in the playlist so it's easy to get back to i'm going
to double click onto it so it's got a red outline here and then come up to filters click on the plus
search for text and click on simple text so by default you get the text time code i'm going to
leave that as it is for now it's actually really helpful to set up the um the template file that
we're doing right now but later on you can come back and change this text you can change the
color that you want let's change mine to a bright red and the outline if you wanted an outline i'll
do my white just so you can see it for now uh the background leave that as transparent you
can change the text type i'm going to change mine to comic sans that's quite a usual style
of fonts to have especially on youtube videos and gaming videos i'm going to change my size to 120
okay now as you realize the text size didn't actually change on that and that's because
you need this little box here ticked so without it ticked it will automatically fill the screen
with it ticked it will go to the size that you've stipulated now the thickness looks a bit too big
so i'm going to take that down a couple and if you want to position the tool i'm going to leave mine
like this but you've got all of your positioning tools here or you can use the options here
to put the text exactly where you want it that's the text setup but we have not added
the effect yet so let's do that next click onto the plus here look for size position and rotate
click into that and now look at the top section here we were interested in the zoom
and as you can see here this keyframe parameter here includes the zoom size
and position so click onto this one here your timeline will change to the keyframes timeline
and now we can add some effects to the text so the first thing you'll realize
is the keyframe is automatically created at the start but it's not selected so select it
right click and actually we want this to be smooth so change this to a smooth keyframe
and we want it to start at 90 percent
eighty percent change it to eighty percent
and then as you hover over the top here you can see the first numbers changing
you want to get to about four or five and click and then come down to here
and then add a new keyframe at playhead that's created a second keyframe
and now we want to change that
back to 120 110 percent as you can see it's slightly cutting off so i'm
going to move my up as well and then move over another four or five frames
set another keyframe and then change the zoom back to 100
if you have changed the position like i did in the last keyframe
you'll also need to reset the position back to zero
now put the playhead back at the very start of the clip if we play it let's have a quick look
okay so that has created a quick zoom in effect
that zooms in and then slightly back out again to kind of give that pop effect
you can play around with the exact figures um and the exact amounts that you zoom in it also depends
on how close you are to the screen edge you may have some more room to play with or you may
want to move your whole text up slightly so then you can actually play with it a little bit more
but once you've created this template file you can use it again and again in your playlist so
let's just go back to the playlist
and the timeline now i can click and drag down here and that will now be appended to my video
obviously don't want this to say the time on it so i can go into it by the filters text simple make
sure i've got this one selected down here and not the top one and then change the time code to bike
now when i play it bike pops in and has that small effect on it and i can drag that in again
from the timeline from the playlist it's got the time stamp on it again because this is
the template file that we're using go back into the filters and just change the time code here
and we'll call this one chess and we'll just see how that looks bike pops in
chess pops in and you can do that again and again throughout your video and you
have the same effect but you can use whatever words and language you want
within the video takes a little bit of time to set up but if you've got maybe 20 or 30
different times you want to do this then it becomes very valuable and you will save
so much time from creating that template file at the start of your video editing so i hope
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