Jordy here for Cinecom.net
and welcome to creative Tuesday,
where I share 5 exciting filmmaking or video editing tips.
And today we're gonna create 4 title animations.
I know, I just said that we're gonna do 5 things every Tuesday,
but we found 4 really awesome title animations and we were kinda stuck on finding a fifth one.
And I thought it's better to keep it at 4 designs that are really great
than adding a fifth one that is like meh,
you know.
So we're gonna kick it off with the first one, which is an underwater text.
Start off by typing your desired texts.
On this title we're going to add the rough and edges effect.
The idea is to get a reflection distortion,
so I'm going to set the edge type to spiky.
You can then go ahead and increase the border a bit.
This will kind of create the right effect that we're looking for,
but we're going to fine-tune it some more.
The border is too sharp,
so decrease the sharpness to around point-one.
To make the text distort a bit more, we're going to increase the scale.
And that's it.
Now I'm going to create a keyframe for the evolution in the beginning of the clip.
Go forward in time and change the evolution.
We don't want to let it go too fast,
so a single three-sixty turn is enough.
To top it off, you can also change the blending mode to overlay
and enjoy yourself an underwater title.
Next up is gonna be a slot machine.
Start off by creating a title,
obviously.
Now, since every letter has to be animated separates,
I'm going to duplicate my text for as many letters that my word contains.
To get a better overview
I'm going to disable all the video tracks except for the first one.
Double click on your text
and select everything but the first letter.
From the essential graphics panel I'm going to deselect fill.
This will hide the selected letters.
Then disable the first text layer and enable the second one.
Here do the exact same thing,
but hide everything but the second letter.
Then disable that video track,
enable the next one now
and hide everything but the third letter.
Continue doing this until we have every letter in a separate layer.
Once you're done, you can enable the video tracks for everything back.
Alright, search for the offset effect and drag it to one of the text layers.
Create a keyframe in the middle of the clip somewhere for this Shift Center.
This is gonna be the end position.
So now let's go back to the beginning of the clip
and change the Y-position value.
And of course, just like every slot machine,
we need the letter to stop very slow.
So expand the Shift Center property so that we can see the animation curve.
Select the last keyframe and while holding down your ctrl key,
pull the lever all the way to the left.
This will make the animation go super fast in the beginning
and very slowly move to the last points.
One more thing that I'm gonna do now is add an effect called directional blur to the text.
Increase the blur length to around 50.
And, just like with the offset animation,
create a keyframe in the beginning,
move to the last position when the offset animation stops as well,
and here change the blur length to 0.
Expand the animation property
and also here make it slowly ease to the last keyframe.
One more step,
select the two effects and hit ctrl or command C to copy them,
then select all of the other text layers
and hit ctrl, or command V for the Mac users,
to paste the effects and its animations to them.
Next we're gonna offset the animation,
so select the second character text layer,
hold down your alt key,
and press the right key button
about ten times to nudge the clip 10 frames forward.
Do the same for the next character,
but here nudge it 20 frames forward.
And then your next character is gonna be nudged forward
30 frames.
The next one 40 frames, etc.
And now there's one last thing that we want to do,
and that is select all the text layers,
right click and choose nest.
Select the nest, go to opacity
and click on the rectangle mask.
Change your rectangle so that it covers up your text.
Alright,
those were a lot of steps but actually quite simple to create.
The next title is gonna be a lot faster.
I call it the big solo reveal.
We're gonna start by adding the mosaic effect to our text layer.
From here animate the horizontal and vertical blocks from zero to one-thousand each.
Expand the animation property like we've seen before,
only here drag the lever out the first keyframe
and hold down ctrl or command, for Mac users, as you do.
And you may do this for both the horizontal and vertical property.
Because the animation goes to one-thousand, the first distortion will go too fast,
and this is why we're making the animation go slower in the beginning.
Next, animate the scale of the layer itself.
I'm slowly going to let it zoom out,
you can also let it zoom in if you like,
so that's your choice.
Make sure that the zoom is animated from the very beginning of the clip
to the very end of the clip length.
And that's it.
The animated scale or that zoom
is gonna make sure that your text will keep shaking around a little bit,
making it seem more alive.
The last one is actually an idea from a tutorial that I made about six years ago.
And I'm sure that not everyone has seen that tutorial yet
and also because it's so old it's boring and it's takes too long.
So that is why I want to include its back here in this
brand new tutorial.
Anyways, take the effects called drop shadow and drag it to your text layer.
Increase the opacity to 100.
If you like so, you can also change the color of the shadow and the direction.
Next, set the distance to 2.
Now, If you'd like to add an animation, then it's best to do that right now.
For instance, you could add an animation to the direction
or you could also add an animation to the distance,
but then you have to make it go from 0 to 2.
Then copy the shadow effect
and paste it again on the clip to have a duplication of it.
On this copied effects were going to change the distance to 4,
the double of 2.
If you have created an animation for it,
make sure that you're changing the last keyframe to 4.
Then duplicate that effect and from the new copy change the distance to 8.
Copy it again and change the next one to 16.
Every time we're taking the double value
and you can keep doing this for as long as you want.
Basically, this is going to extrude your text, making it seem 3d.
And together with the animation you get something like this.
And those were my 4 title animations.
Thank you so much for watching and as always...
Stay creative!
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you can a playlist from YouTuber Andyax.
He started his own film production company with a couple of guys
and has documented that entire journey.
It's not only entertaining to watch, but also very educational.
It's really amazing what those guys have pulled of.
So make sure to check it out,
it's really awesome.