BEGINNER'S Kinetic Typography - After Effects Tutorial

so what is kinetic typography because in the name it sounds pretty complicated because whenever I first heard of it or anytime I ever bring up that I do connect typography to anybody they look at me kind of baffled because they don't it sounds really complex and I decided to look up the actual definition of what kinetic typography is because I felt like the name was a little too a little too complicated for what it actually is so for those of you that don't know what kinetic typography is let's answer that question to start off this tutorial connect typography the technical name for moving text is an animation technique mixing motion and text to express ideas using video animation so in simplest terms literally it's just moving text to sound that's pretty much it that's usually I mean I don't know if it specifies its specifically moving the sound here but like that's usually what it's used in because most of the time you'll find in this example I use for this video it's used to music but a lot of the time you'll actually see it being used in like TV shows like fan-made redos of TV shows using the words they say in those scenes or in speeches you'll see it a lot and you'll see this in commercials - I saw one recently for an Allstate commercial I believe is the what was Allstate the one where they're like you're in good hands or whatever I sound like a really weird like it was kind of like an ugly style of can I have uh grafite pretty recently like yesterday and I add on YouTube so it's used all over the place and it's a very useful technique for anyone doing motion graphics and today I decided to do my own tutorial talking about this is gonna be the basics of connective ography basically a beginner's guide so we're gonna be going over very very basic stuff and how I designed this video to cover I have a mental checklist of things that I want to cover in this video the first one is going to be talking about this example piece because I made this video specifically for this and I did a few things in here that uh that I'm going to go over so the first thing I want to point out is tip number one pretty much listen to what you're editing because always remember that you have the advantage of being able to listen to what you're editing in advance so when I heard this little song here I'll let you take a listen to the beginning so you listen it's very it's a repeated beat is the exact same note over and over again it's like dun dun Tintin's the same note so I got this idea I was like well if it's the same thing over and over again what if I translated this idea into text so I did that it's exactly what I did I did very abrupt cuts with different size texts to each beat and basically I got this idea by listening to the song and like I said typography the sort typography isn't used specifically for music only but in this example it will be being used for that so first tip for you guys is listen to what you're editing just make sure you if you have a if you have some sort of like sound in your audio or you have some kind of beat or anything really it's kind of hard to explain in a tutorial because there could be infinite amounts of like what hat what's in your song or your audio piece or whatever so just basically just listen you know to what your editing there you go all right now I'm like I said I designed this thing specifically to cover little techniques of typography and let's just say this the whole point of this video is going to be taking everything that's done in this example and we're gonna be adding all of these things together and we're just going to basically figure out exactly how I put this together and cover all these little basic techniques so that's going to be our goal for this tutorial all right the first one is this zoomin of the text and it may sound simple but this is going to cover a bigger concept of something called null objects and we'll cover that here a little bit but this actual text layer is not being scaled up traditionally the actual layer of this text is not even being touched we're going to talk about no objects and what they're used for in typography and yeah that's the first technique there the second one is the zoom out and the text flying in from the right side of the screen into this other piece of text and this actual layer is being animated so we're gonna cover that then after that we have a very very very widely used X rotation bounce on a 2d on 2d text so you see the text is flat there and it comes down and kind of like Wiggles in the place a little bit so we're gonna cover how to do that and then the this text moves to the left a little bit more and then we have next piece of the word coming in on its Y rotation so it is a Y rotation bounce you can see it there it comes in like that and this is another very widely used form of presenting your text so there you go and then one that I find very appealing I love it it's this text coming up from behind a mask and it might be because I'm just stupid or something but I couldn't figure this out like it took me a really long time to figure out how to do this so if anybody else is having that problem I would love to fix that for you so I'm gonna teach you how to do this text coming over behind a mask it's most evident here you can see the text is being cut off a little bit and going by frame by frame we're gonna see a kind of rise up from behind that mask and I think it looks really clean and it's also being combined with that zoom out so there you go cool and again the text comes up from behind a mask but the letters are spaced out pretty you know pretty far a little farther than they need to be but this is corresponding with the movement of this screen which let's just say all the screen movements are being done through null objects and all the text movements are being done through their actual text layers which I'll cover that more here in a second so the reason why the letters are all spaced out like that it's done with tracking and I'm going to show you how to do that just a little bit later on they're spaced out and they they are in sync with the rotation of the screen because once it zooms out that this screen kind of like rotates to the negative 8 degree angle and then zooms out a little bit and then comes back down and the text tracking kind of comes back in with that rotation I think that looks pretty cool I'm gonna teach how to do that and it's also just going to cover how to play around with your text and the screen movements at the same time you know I make them kind of work together and one thing you're going to be noticing a lot is screen movements in my typography specifically and I find it very helpful to knock something off my desk whoops so one thing I want to point out is in this example the singer I thought this song was really good for this example because the singer splits up her words into syllables and any time you're working with a audio piece that has syllables in it present your text by the syllables if they in this example she says after but she says half and then to some I'll let you listen to a little piece here again so she says like half and then an inter comes in after that so I presented the text syllable the syllable in the way she said it so I presented it f-first and then there was also a beat once she said her so I zoom the screen out and added a little bit of rotation wiggle and a little bit of exposure and a third-party plugin called sapphire shake which I will show off in the end of this it's not absolutely necessary like you don't completely need it um but I'll show it off anyways and then again I do the syllable thing on laughter because she stretches that one out by syllables too and you can listen to add again it's just laughs and unter so I split that up into syllables just make sure you're basically for any sort of motion graphic make sure you always have something moving that's gonna be like the number one tip for anything just make sure something is always moving on-screen you don't ever want like this is pretty static but it's just a little intro piece and it's going along with the beat the intro to the song because of the like I said the recurring beat which i think is fine I could justify this but if you animated your actual music video like this I would be a little a little iffy on it just because I mean if there were legitimate movement happening in this part of the song and then I animated to lit like that it would just look really weird but yeah alright that's all I really wanted to cover so let's just get into to actually animate it so we're to make a new composition by doing control and on the keyboard and I'm going to take this background here and we're gonna do a seven second long composition that sounds fine we're working 30 frames a second and some people decide to work in 60 frames a second on typography and I'm working on a project right now that that's a typography project in 60 frames a second but for most typography projects I work in 30 just because I think it looks better I mean I don't know that's just my personal preference most of my lyric videos I'll make some in 30 frames a second just because I'm not I I just like outlooks I think it looks a lot better but you could work in 60 frames a second or if you're insane and you think going above 60 frames a second does anything and you want to work in like 3,000 frames a second you could do that too it's totally fine so yeah 30 mins I got 7 the 7 second long composition looks good and we're just gonna take the ideas we're not going to completely recreate this thing we're not going to like use any audio we're just going to cover these basic techniques of what I did for this text so the first one is the zoom and via a null object and there's also one thing I want to point out is afterwards you can see us like a tiny subtle little zoom afterwards so it does that fast assume into place but then it continues to zoom in a little bit more and there's a technique I'm going to show you that I've never seen anyone do but I find really really really helpful it's actually using a null object and then parenting your first null object to they're no object and I'll show you that here oh and one more thing I actually used impact font and I decided to do this because I just thought it looked good with the video and I wanted to encourage you guys to use really strange fonts because impact font comes with like every computer it's not like you don't go online and search for you don't even search this fine comes on your computer so it's not anything fancy it's not a super crazy fun it's uh it's just a basic font so you know explore whatever because typography is clear they berry it's very much so based off of what fonts are using is a very big part of it so just get creative and use crazy woody funds so you don't think you'd ever use because I never thought I would use impact font and am in a typography project but I did and I think it turned out great so yeah everything just be crazy blue funds get creative alright so the first one's gonna be that zoom in so let's just write out zoom and let's pull up that impact font impact there we go let's grab that color real quick right here and I should also mention that this song and the color scheme I got the song from are all in the description so because this isn't my own color scheme I didn't make as myself I was watching a remix of this really old like 50s or 60s song I liked that I heard on a show called a casual and someone added like drums to it was really good so that will be in the description alright and one thing you'll notice in the example project is most of my typography projects the first word I start will usually common to the center of the screen and this is actually laid out a little bit to the left but the reason why I did that is because I knew you know editing in advance thinking about what I was going to do I put this the left out slightly so that whenever it would zoom back out I can add that the rest of the word and it would actually be in the center so I'm gonna put the zoom slightly to the left of the screen and there we go because we're going to be doing the zoom out or the zoom in first and then we're going to do the zoom out and have another word come in and hit this word basically so there we go and one thing I do I should probably point out just start this off is the align tool this is going to be you in typography it's gonna probably be like your best friend a line is very very helpful use it all the time I find it one of the most helpful things because basically what it does is in your composition at all times you will always have a line that's defining the center of your screen and a line a line line is going to Center it to that line no matter what so this is your or your vertical center is your horizontal center so if you want to immediately find your Center then this is what you're gonna do you're gonna get a line and you can grab that by going to window and pressing a line and putting it somewhere in your workspace I find it very helpful and another thing for centering text because I have this problem sometimes been I've recently well not recently like over the last two years I figured out the best ways of solving like not knowing whenever the text is centered it's going to be aligned and also pulling up your grid and guide options and going to title slash actions life and what this does is it creates this cool border around your thing but most importantly is you have this plus here in the middle and what that does is it's telling you this is the center and it never changes this is exactly where your center is so for some reason you can't use a line because if you have a pretty filled up project you can um I'll probably end up blurring that out because my facebook notifications are on as probably why I shouldn't have chrome open during this entire thing because yeah I don't want to expose anybody's personal information on the tutorial was I saying oh yeah so this is the center of the composition and it's always going to be that way so for whatever reason you can't use you can't use a line and because your workspace is pretty filled up or you have keyframes on this or whatever you can use this good grid so yeah there you go cool I'm gonna Center that move it a little bit to the left and now let's do our actual zoom in so let's talk about null objects what exactly are no objects well null objects are invisible they don't do anything on screen except for guide layers so the best way I can explain a null object is saying like you parents it so what parenting is is it saying whatever this object so it's parented to null nine it's saying whatever null nine does I'm gonna do so this text layer is parent since to null nine so whatever no nine does zoom is going to do right because it's parented now we could get that animation we could you zoom and we could animate it like just straight from the layer but what if we have multiple things on screen you know like what if we have two zooms we have zoom one and zoom two and we parent this is already parent it to the null nine but like so we have both things on screen so we would be in kind of an issue if we had to animate each of them individually and add like the exact keyframes the exact movements for each layer it would just get a little crazy and be a little unnecessary so with null objects you can move both the text layers themselves just simply the null object and that's exactly what this is used for it's just used for moving objects but not actually moving them and I suggest whenever you have a null object just get your layer parented to that one and then turn off the visibility so you get this little get this red box it appears and trimming off the visibility just gets rid of that red box you don't have to look at it and it still works just as just normal so yeah all right now let's get that zoom in going and we're simply gonna do a scale we're gonna bring it to that position and we're gonna put a keyframe down on our null I'm going to move it say one two three four five frames ahead and then we're to put this to zero and then it just kind of scales in like that and I think I want my text to be a little a little more in the center or a little bigger so yeah that looks good a little more to the left good alright so our text is being scaled in through linear keyframes what are learning your keyframes there are these little diamonds this is how you know your key frames or linear keyframes and what they do is that they are specifically designed to scale up equally so no matter how far apart you put them they will scale up an equal amount so if you take a look here at the scale and we go frame by frame we see two four six eight and then 100 and it's doing that because it's five frames part in a 30 second or 30 frames per second project and it's going up equally so two four six eight ten now if we were to move it 10 frames apart from the start it would go by 10 so 10 20 30 40 50 60 and so on this can be used and we're going to end up using these on a completely different null to get smoother like movements after our initial zoom but to get way smoother movements you're going to be using something called a graph editor and eased keyframes so you highlight these keyframes and you press f9 and this does an easy ease which is in simplest terms it's it's just smoothing it's smoothing out your keyframes and making them a lot more easier to look at so if you take a look at the scale now it's not going to scale up individual it's not going to scale equally it's going to go ten point four to thirty five point two to sixty four point eight eight nine point six and a hundred and I usually use motion instead of the graph editor motion is a is an After Effects script by mount mograph and I find it very helpful so I would recommend picking that up but I'm not going to use it in this tutorial because I know everybody doesn't have it but I would suggest getting it if you're gonna do typography or any sort of motion graphic let's talk about the graph editor I'm not the best with it because I don't ever use it but I know how it works so you're gonna highlight your keyframes and press this little guy here and now you have this loop which is showing you when I say loop I mean this thing that's like he'll write it this is showing you what's going on in your actual keyframe so when we ease it it's going starting kind of slow going a little faster and it Peaks here and this little this is the peak and then it goes back down so to get the smoothest movements in my opinion you're gonna click on this handle here and all you're going to do is just going to pull it in so this is a key this is also being done through the speed graph which you can find here edit speed graph and this is going to make it go if you look at the the graph here you're going faster off the start so it's going really fast right and then it slow is into place so we watch that back it speeds up and slows down and it's very subtle but use the graph editor if you motion make sure I would recommend probably going to another tutorial to figure out more about the graph editor but this is going to be there your like your best friend motion graphics and usually for when I actually do a mess with the the graph editor this is these are the movements I do I get my far-right handle pull it in speed it up and slow it down till I do alright cool so now we have this movement and it's not being done through the neon keyframes anymore this is being done through ease keyframes and now let's talk about how in the example it zooms them and then it kind of like very subtly you can see it it zooms in a little more afterwards and we could easily do this through this null object like we could move a few frames in and put this up to like 100 point 5 or 105 and it continues to zoom in afterwards but I find it way easier to just simply create a new null object and in this tutorial I'm going to be doing a keyboard shortcut to pull up null objects and that keyboard shortcut is going to be ctrl alt shift in Y and that's going to create a new null object and if you're working in After Effects I would recommend learning all of the keyboard shortcuts because they're very helpful alright so the snow object let's talk about these this is going to be specifically our ease null and what that means is that all of our eased key friends are going to go on this ease null and then we're going to parent our ease null to this new know and question is what are we going to do on this one that's so significantly different and important compared to this one well we're going to be specifically working on this one in linear keyframes that we can get equal amounts of scale or position movements so that we don't have to do that in this one it's just a lot more organized in my opinion and I think it's a lot more helpful just I use this all the time and I've never seen anyone else do this technique before so if you know like a better way to do this or you think this is stupid most of what I do is self taught like every editing program I've ever learned it's been self taught so I might be a little weird my editing but this is what I do I find it helpful I think it's just weight more organized than doing it on one null so yeah to get like just break this down the reason why this works is that you have your zoom layer if we had more text layers all of them will be parented to this East null and so this is no is controlling everything that's happening to that text so if you parent this evil to the new null object that is going to carry over to this next null object so we could just eat simply scale this up to like 102 and now we have the text going in it's being scaled and really quickly from our ease no and then on our linear no autosave got to make sure we're out as saving that project linear null so we're going to rename these so we we know exactly what's happening right so easy Nell and linear now we have that zoom in and it continues to zoom in a little bit and there we go cool perfect all right so this will intro it for this part of the example is just showing up ease knows linear nulls and how to zoom in your text through a null object that's great alright on to the next one now we're going to do the zoom out and animating our text layer to kind of come in from the right side of the screen and bounce into this text so let's get that started now so another thing about this linear null is that you can use this as an automatic marker so I know whenever when I'm looking at this linear know I know once this movement ends sones we get to this n keyframe I know that's the end of the movement so I can place a keyframe down on my ease null and then I'm like okay well I know exactly when I come back if I'm working back here and I come back I'm like oh all right so this is where the the linear nil ends here so I got to start working from this position if that makes sense so now we're going to zoom out using our easy Nell and we're to probably do it like 40 percent see ya I'd say like 40 I like around 40 and then we'll pull open that speed graph and grab this handle and just pull that guy back so we get smoother movements hold on make sure that's doing right yeah it should be fun all right we go uh yeah okay so now on here's what I usually do is I don't even make new text layers unless I'm like working in a new font or something so we're just all innocent in this project we're working simply in one font so another tip that I'm gonna say is do not like if you don't have to make a new text layer then don't because you have to go through the hassle of scaling it to the correct proportion in and then parenting it to your first null object and it's just a mess right like I just don't find it very helpful so all you can do is just take your whatever text layer since this is going to be in the correct scale that we want it to be in already it's already parented to the ease null and it's just perfect we don't need to do anything else with this we just duplicate it we do control D on that text layer to duplicate it and then it's perfect now we're going to do um we're going to do is zoom out all right so we do zoom out looks good and we place that like right here so it looks like one sentence and now we can pull open that title action safe to make sure there's a centered which is not so pressing shift we can highlight both of these and then press down on it and hold shift to move it across an axis and we will find the center of it which is about it's kind of really hard to tell never can ever it's something that's kind of hard to tell I think it's right about there like I think the plus would have to be kind of like on that M right there yes I think that's going to look the most correct so we zoom out we can kind of see it looks like it's a little more to the left than needs to be but that's okay whatever if you're working in an actual you're working an actual project make sure this is perfectly centered and we could pro I think we could use a line to to do this if we Center it aligned to the comp middle of the composition you see sometimes it does that so yeah I mean we can move it to the horizontal Center or the vertical Center but we can't move it to the horizontal that's why sometimes I said like if it for some reason you can't use a line then you can always use that little grid so I think yeah I think that looks perfect like it looks close to perfect at least so let's do that position movement and simply all we're going to do is press this press the out because that's one we're going to be animating to come in and we're going to key from the position and then we're going to move this to like to be in line with this zoom out so it happens all at the same time and then we're gonna move it all the way over to the right just to where it's off-screen and I want to mention that technically the text is off-screen at this point so like here is where it becomes the off-screen and we move it a little bit past that point but if you were to animate back here technically being off-screen to be all the way over there which would be a little bit too much so just keep that in mind that whenever you're doing is zoom out like this and you're making something specifically position come in you can just move your position to where it's off-screen in relativity to wherever your null is scaled into if that makes any sense so yeah now let's easy these keyframes pull open that graph editor and take that pull that in get that smooth little movement and now we have a zoom out and the text coming in easy peasy super easy look at that super good nice alright next piece is the SIL X rotation bounce and I also want to mention that there's obviously some more flare going on here like you see there's clearly motion blur ticked on and then when it seems out there's a little bit of exposure change and there's also a rotation added with a little wiggle to it and I will show you how to do that at the end because we don't really need to do that right now I'll show you the adjustment layers I use to get that exposure and screen shake because we look you can see it moves a little bit like out of place and then it zooms out and then the screen shakes a little bit it's very subtle and I'll show you exactly what how we do that in a little bit but for now we are don't worry about that all right so then we move to the left a little bit and we have a bigger text that comes in off the X rotation and as a bounce and for that bounce we're going to use a very very simple expression that you don't need to do anything to I will put it in a pastebin in the description because YouTube isn't like to let me paste expressions in the comments or or anywhere yeah you like to just love to interrupt my tutorials don't you now he probably won't leave that's my cat his name's Goldman he probably won't leave ever like for this entire tutorial he wants to learn how to edit typography what a guy what a guy alright um so I'll explain how to use this expression properly like all you're going to be animating or how you gonna be changing is the amplitude in frequency if you want so you can change the decay but I don't ever do that because it's not very you know I don't ever really mess with that I don't really know what does I think decay just means how quickly it's gonna it's going to end I'm pretty sure that's what it means I don't even mess with it so I don't even know what it means I just leave it at 4.0 alright so we're gonna do a position movement oh and also on the linear null let's keep that zoom out going down just like 99 so it seems out and then out out of the UM the linear null it continues to zoom out a little bit more I don't even know it like my counts like purring on my desk right now so hopefully that's not picking up a microphone so on the YZ no let's put a position keyframe down and then move that over to the left let's count like six frames or so one two three four five and six and then we move that over to the left I think that looks fine there and then again like always press f9 while highlighting your keyframe keep them highlighted grab that graph editor pull that in and then you get that smooth fastest slow movement looks great alright and now we're going to again just duplicate that text layer probably just duplicate the zoom because it doesn't have any keyframes added to it so it's nice and easy for us to animate and then we're gonna let's do um let's make this text say a huge because we're going to make it pretty big compared to the rest of the text I recount and we'll just press s on our keyboard with that active to scale that up we get my cats not picking up on the audio I'd be unfortunate wonder what he wants what do you want huh you're interrupting my tutorial he's also like nudging my mouse so it's getting really good it's kind of like a it's like I'm working through his efforts to try to stop this tutorial right now all right and we have our position movements there and now the text so how do we get it to come off the x-axis because if you pull up the rotation right now there's no option to actually animate the x y&z rotation I want you to do it for that is you see this little cube right here if you don't have that available it's because you have this toggle switches and mode things set to this area where you have your track maps and your modes so just click that and then I'll bring up this and then you turn on the cube to make it 3d and now you have these little handles that come up and I find very helpful because instead of having to hold shift and move text you can actually just get move along accesses with this so I find that helpful and now if you press R on the text we have these X rotations Y rotation and Z rotations and now we can actually just animate these to come in like they did from the example so all we're going to do is have it on on negative 90 degree and then in sync with that position movement it's going to kind of fly down and flop into place and for that the bounce we will add an expression so let's just animate X rotation from negative 90 degrees so it's like flat like that and over time we will have it come back down to zero and the thing about this expression is oh I closed it and pull that up or hey I did close it I'm an idiot there it is the thing about this expression is that it doesn't work very well with eased keyframes so I just recommend not mess if you're not using motion then just don't ease your keyframes will be using this expression you can use linear keyframes it really won't make much of a difference and the bounce is also determine off of velocity of the keyframe so the closer you put them into each other the bigger the balance is going to happen if you want to mess with that you can always mess with the expression yourself so to get that expression going you just get the stopwatch and hold down alt and click on it and then this little line will come up and just go to the pastebin I have in the description copy down this expression and paste that in and that will add some nice pizzazz the text and give it that cool bounce and I want to make this position movement having faster so let's just bring that in produce in one frame so there you go and I don't like how much it bounces so what I'm going to do is I'm going to go into the amplitude in the expression and just turn that down just like 0.3 and then on the frequency I will turn that down to one so that it bounces one time so comes down bounces one time in the place very subtly I think bounces are best used cat are best used in if I had a face cam this would be like the funniest face cam ever because you just see me fighting my cat so I think bounces are used best in moderation so just don't go overboard with it don't make it absolutely crazy like I don't know even happen if I did this if I turn the amplitude up to like 30 or 300 G's whoa man whoa that is insane I've never done that before it's actually really funny it's like it's like having a seizure see don't do your chest like that if you have like a client and you show him that she's gonna be like what's wrong with you dude did you make this okay so don't go crazy overboard with it it's doing nice little subtle balance so just kind of Wiggles into place it doesn't look too crazy it's not too extravagant either but it's very subtle and very cute I like it so that looks good and then now we're gonna do that nice little Y rotation on the second syllable so there we go and I'll show you do that and we'll do another position movement and on the on the linear no will actually open up our position and wherever this actual position movement and we will start it and we'll move ahead to like like two seconds now less than that it's like 25 frames here one second 20 so like their move it's linked well actually no no we're ajiz animating the okay so we're not gonna move it very far let's go to like 9 9 5 yeah so it zooms in continues to zoom a little or slides in and then continues to slide a little bit and I think I look good and then we'll do another position movement wants this linear keyframe ends just like I said using this as a sort of a marker so you know whenever you're supposed to do your movement so we move another five frames and then move it to like there and that looks good in the example it doesn't do it exactly it actually moves this off of the screen but we're not going to do that for this one where it's going to move it to like there and then pull open that in the graph editor and oh it's already that's already nice and tight for us cool boom slide them I like that looks good and then add a linear keyframe there and we'll just bring this to like they're far less than that they're cool and let's actually animate the the next word which is going to be text so it's going to say zoom out huge text sounds like it was written by a toddler zoom out zoom out huge text sounds good and we're just gonna duplicate the huge layer because it's already in the correct scale that we needed to be it's already 3d and it already has the expression applied to it so it would just make sense to just duplicate that layer or not go through the hassle of making a new one so we'll type out text using those handles that I find pretty nifty we will put that there and we're actually going to have to zoom this or slide this over a little more so that it has room there we go and the cool thing another like this is exactly why I do this on the on the linear nose so like if I were to actually animate this extra little this after slide so it kind of like looks like there's kind of velocity to the movement of the screen and if I were to do it on this no I would have to go through and change everything in order to make sure that it's still consistent right like it just it would be a lot more of a hassle so if you just do it on two different null objects it just makes life so much easier man it makes life so much easier so I suggest this a lot all right so now we have text and we're going to pull open the rotation and let's just set this there put a key from down on Y rotation and bring this into positive 90 degrees so it goes like that and it slides into place like that a cat won't stop getting on the desk and hitting my screen it's been such a jerk today and like I said we already have the expression applied to the X rotation so let's just copy that and paste that on to the Y rotation and we just completely get rid of this because we don't need that the X rotation we don't even need that and using alt Open bracket I'm going to trim the this text layer to my time indicator so that looks good and hopefully I believe I'll probably need to turn down the text a little bit the bouncy I'll definitely I'll turn this down from 0.5 I think was at point 3 actually I'll just turn the frequency down to like point 7 not / 7 point 7 and we keep the amplitude how it is because I do like how much is like the amount it balances but I don't like how long it bounces for so there you go it just bout does a nice little move with the movement you know it comes in that's the thing you should probably take into account here is that all of the screen movements are influencing the text movements so basically any time so what we're doing anytime a text movement happens oh I also need to trim this to be there so yeah just so it's not visible throughout the entire thing but if you look clearly each screen movement and the screaming bits are all being done through the nulls are influencing each text movement so we have the zoom and then once it the null zooms out we have the text coming in from the side and then once it moves to the left the text comes in from that x axis rotation and once it moves again to the left we have it on the Y rotation so each screen move it is influencing text movement so I just keep that in mind when you're making typography like you can get super creative with it and one of the bigger ones that we'll cover is that a tracking movement with the rotation how it the screen rotation influences the text coming back together like that that's a big thing there that will plant that so now we have that all done and just on our linear null I believe we already moved it yeah so we did cool and now we know where to start because of that linear null so a little marker cool and the next thing that happens is a zoom out and the text coming up from behind the mask and hopefully this can help you guys out because I wanted to know how to do this for a very long time and we're actually gonna run into an issue here with scaling because I want it to scale out like in this in this video here we have a move from true center to the left and to the left again and then it scales out from the center and the reason why that's kind of intriguing is because it's like if I were to do that on mine it wouldn't scale out from the center it would scale out to the left because we mess with the position of our ease null right like we we messed with it so it's not our ease null anymore so to fix this what we're gonna do is create a brand new ease know and we're going to be using something called Xiuying which is basically going to get rid of a layer completely but keep it in your timeline but just to where you can't see it so let's take a look at that so like I said if you take a look at this there's a pretty big difference in the scale out so it scales out to the center and then text comes up from behind a mask but if we were to do that it would scale on to the left a little bit and like I said that's because of the position we moved it from so we're just going to do control shift Y to make a new no object in our most recent null we're going to parent to this one so that it does scale out from the center because it's kind of hard to explain because it gets kind of confusing like a I don't know what the correct word would be it's like an epidemic like null objects so you know all your text parents this is null and this season Ella's parents are that linear no and then all the movements from is null are going to go into a linear null and all of the text layers apparently do it the easel so this linear node controls that ease null which all the texts are parents are too and then you parent linear nil to null 11 and it's just the exact same things going to have it for this one now all the text movement is going to be influenced over to this guy and we're just going to name this one e's null again and i'll point make it easy null to so that we know the difference between this easel and that one so like I mentioned there's something called shine and shine this is just very simple it's taking away a layer but not truly taking it away so this little button here is called your shy button if you click it I don't have this actual name for it but it's just had a Shia layer you click it and you get still like two line thing going on from this logo to this one and then up here you have hides all layers for which the shy switch so that's your shy switch not shy button should I switch you press that and that is null completely goes away but if you press it again it comes back it's always going to be there in the timeline but it's just going to be to the point where you can't see anymore so it's not taking up any space in your timeline so that's what that's used for and you can also do that like if you just wanted to completely forget about all these texts layers here you just shy those two like why do you even need those we're probably to keep those shied because we don't even need them yeah oh well I'll actually keep one not shied so that we can duplicate that layer later so we'll keep that one unshod and there we go so all those layers are going away but they're still there in our timeline and now we can focus on this new ease null and yeah let's just turn off visibility on that set a keyframe on the scale and let's zoom out like here and then zoom pretty far out because we're gonna have a pretty um a pretty big text compared to this one so we want to make sure that this text appears small compared to this one because we're gonna have a pretty big text coming in like I said and so just make sure this one looks sort of small we'll probably put this down like 35 I just get that contrast going on because when you're working with connective ography I like to make some words bigger than other ones too exaggerated importance to make when text is bigger it looks more important than the other text and it will draw the viewers eye to that piece of text so I just like to play with that a lot and like always highlight f9 easy ease you guys know this already you guys already prosed this you guys aren't know what you're doing I don't you don't even need to watch this tour anymore no she don't right so we got that smooth movement we'll probably want that comment a little quicker say yeah we had that nice speed speed slow they read yeah and well maybe you know it maybe we'll actually make this farther apart because we want the text to come in kind of slow so they got look smooth now how do we get that text to come up from behind the mask so let's just duplicate this text here and we will make this one called this won't be called mask just masked I had Donuts earlier so I'm a fatty and I keep like my chest hurts from eating so we're oh I'm also rotating this on its y-rotation I'll do it's like - if you take a look here this text is kind of its kind of rotated a little bit probably like close to two degrees on the Y rotation so it looks kind of cool and where I do that - the same - this one and we're going to scale this up to where it's a lot bigger than the rest comes in like probably bigger than that - like there yeah it looks go right there cool but we are gonna enemy position but if we just pull up wooden position on this text and we move it down and we also have a mask and to make a new mask on a text layer just do ctrl shift + n to make that happen and you can also right click on it go to mask and do new mask but I like shortcuts but if you move your position the mask moves with it so we need to animate our position on the text a little differently presses arrow here and that's going to pull open all this crap but you just want to focus on this here on animate now press that and then position will come up all right there animate that and now we can actually put our text behind the mask so it will come up we'll animate it so we just put a keyframe down and move that all the way over here is that lined up so one frame ahead oh yeah and then we will put it under the mask kind of Rises alright put that to like I think it truly I usually see when I'm doing this that 150 on the why is is true it's like that's usually where the text is fully behind a mask so yeah there we go we have the zoom out and the text coming out from behind a mask and you can this is a really good example to see what a big difference that easing does so take a look at the zoom out of the screen and how the text comes in like look at how weird that looks right and like the text the the screen movement looks cool and it is very nice and smooth but the text kind of just abruptly stops and it just looks like garbage so that's just kind of goes to show how much easing can do for you you have correctly eased keyframes and your entire project will look great in no time so highlight keyframes press this drag it in that nice look and now we watch it again it's very very smooth just looks like looks like looks like you spent a little bit of time on this making it look all smooth and stuff but literally that took like a minute not even long at all so that's it that's the text coming up from on the mask I don't know why that took me so long to figure out but it did and now using our linear no we'll just place a keyframe down here and then move to like here and bring this out like 95 mmm 96 yeah so it seems out off of the linear Nell continues to zoom out a little bit there you go and then I'll probably move that in a little bit closer so we have room to work with and now the next thing that we're doing is this the screen kind of rotates still to a negative 8 degree and then like pretty quickly it zooms out smoothly too zooms out goes to a negative eight degree angle and then slowly comes back into place and this is just focusing on the screen like don't look at the text right now is look at the screen so the screen zooms out and like I said goes on that degree and then it comes down and it's eased into in a place like that and now focusing on text you can see how this the screen position movement influences the way the text comes together so it was looking at that it's very very fluid it's all in sync you can see that there that was specifically done to the screen movement was done to play with this text so yeah and there's also like I said in the beginning tracking on this text I'll show you how to do and let's get into that so on our new YZ Nell we will place a keyframe down and go a little bit in right there and then go to 15 I'd say does it look fair yeah looks good make sure that is correctly not correctly done there you go so I want it to be pretty spaced out like pretty far apart on this position on the scale movement yeah and we're also on the YZ no we can just pull open the rotation as well and to pull open to different parameters at the same time when you're doing your shortcuts so s4 scale are for rotation t4 opacity a for Anchor Point and you knew em for masks which was no masks available I think I missed one oh yeah P for position so I want to open up scale and rotation at the same time so to do that I hold down say there's nothing selected you view s and then hold down shift and press R and then you'll be able to pull open two different parameters at the same time so cool cool is then going on there so synced with this scale we're going to have the rotation go like I said to negative eight so it will ease these just to make sure we get that final look let's pull open that to let them go and now we have it going like that and I think I want this to kind of start for the text even zooms out so it kind of like yeah it looks a lot smoother so like they're barely stuttered yeah just look more fluid that way so there you go and then we will have it slowly come back down to zero and we're going to be doing something called ease out which is going to make it start it's going to get faster and then get slower so if you take a look at what this looks like in the graph editor you can see a little hump here a little hill so thinking about this in a keyframe it's going to start slow and then get faster and you can if you take a look it says 14 point 46 degrees per second so you're just going higher and higher and higher and then it hits its peak here and it gets slow it's slower so that's what you have going on there and you can mess with this a little more to get it to kind of get slower faster and this is going to work in our favor a little bit later once we actually animate the tracking of the text so we'll have this already made so that we know how fast the tracking of our text needs to come back into place so let's just duplicate actually let's make a new text layer for this one because we don't need to be 3d and we can make it the correct scale pretty easily so this one will be um a track this one true yeah I think I think this is a word track would look good or maybe tracks so that we have enough space to enough letters to work with and we will put that away that's another thing because our easy uh easy Nell one is shy hope maybe it'll come up on here alright there it is so bean is parented the ease note without even drawing it I didn't think about doing that because I usually use the pickup for stuff but you can just press that and you have shied layers like I said they'll still come up they'll still be there so there's a reason oh now it's parented to that but we actually do need to make this 3d so I goofed because if you take a look it's very subtle but this is actually this is actually on an x-axis or y-axis turn to negative and since it's big it's going to get like really undistorted so I think sound like negative one so we scale that up to make it a lot bigger than it is right now because we want the contrast that text to be pretty evident so there we go think a little bigger there we go so yeah negative one works fine look at that I believe this is actually rotated weird yeah this okay so the Z rotation was messin with me there so there we go now it goes in properly like that so we have our screen movement here and we want to come up from behind the mask so what we can do is we can just literally copy what we did on this here so I just make a new mask on your tracks text and just do ctrl shift and to make that new mask happen and well hold on first let's actually animate our tracking because we need our masks to come in a little later yeah all right so just to animate tracking just do the exact same thing you did for position and open up tracking and what is tracking tracking is how far apart your text is from each character so you're tracking amount you pull that up and now all of these letters are going to come apart like that I think I actually want it to just be tracked because in the example the a stays static yeah okay so the a stays static in the animation the reason for that is because we have 1 2 3 4 5 characters and it's an uneven amount so it's not going to move each character individually because one needs to be now you see we do tracks all of them will move together like that because it's an even amount but if we do tracks ah one of them well I guess maybe cuz I assume that's how it was I was done but maybe it's just the lower amount um cuz I don't believe any of them are staying static there so I guess it doesn't have to do with being even cuz I assume that's how it was done I guess I guess if you have like a smaller word one of them becomes static now I guess it's just 5 characters is the one that wants to set with that's really weird how it only does five characters and then one of the letters becomes static because look the a doesn't move but all the leather other ones do and I really liked that effect so I guess I don't know make five characters in your text will stay like the middle letter will stay I'm Center like that I don't know it's weird I thought that's how it was a Sherman but I guess not you learn something new every day there you go so we have our track there and the tracking is set to like 55 and let's just animate this to come and quickly back down to like 30 just to correspond with this rotation because we look at it the text the rotation kind of comes in like that pretty pretty quickly to a negative eight degree so we're going to the exact same thing with this tracking and lower it down to like a 30 from 55 and then it's going to come together pretty quickly like that like there's there yeah I think that's good so kind of comes in like that and then slowly over time we will have it go back down to zero and we will ease this keyframe out so it does that same Hill thing again as we saw and the UM here so we have the hill and we will just pull that in there looks good so that's our Hill and we can make this go slower or whatever but I think it looks fine there and let's just take a look at how that is when we bring it over there so let's just using alt and open bracket we'll put that down there and scale this bring up there so the tracking comes in we probably want that to happen quicker maybe the yeah so it probably had to happen beforehand because we also need to do count that we're going to be putting it up from behind a mask so maybe we should just do that first so let's start for the beginning of this and create a new mask control-shift-n and then like I said we just literally copy the masked parameters and just copy those and put them on to our position I don't believe I made it yet but I know like so Lily so pull up in position there we go and then just paste that in there and then we already have our text behind a mask and as you can see a few letters are kind of coming up so you just bring that down there and that's just because they're a bigger scale one of them toking out a little bit there so there we go it comes up there behind a mask and let's just mess around with this and get at that look how we want it to okay so alright I say we're doing okay what's happening is we need this to be scaled out or this to happen slower so when to come in like that yeah okay I see I think what we want to do is we want this to kind of be more noticeable so let's bring this up or do like 20 kind of comes in quicker like that like a more noticeable change see as you can see this needs to be a little quicker it's hanging a bit quicker yeah that looks NSYNC all right so take a look at it once the rotation comes back down the text is about there like about it's in sync with that same movement let a little messing around with things seeing what looks good so that needs to have a little longer hey yeah alright so however checks coming up from Honda masks the tracking goes pretty quickly into place great saddle movement I like it and then the screen rotation going back down brings that text together like that and that's exactly what we did in in this one here and text with a little farther spaced apart and it looks a little smoother but that's because I was using motion and this is not like an advertisement anything but you're going to get ways smoother and way better animations using motion like using the graph editor is great but using motion is so much better and it's so much faster too it's just the most efficient and like best way to get a if actually I don't like the expression I showed you if you have motion you can just press excite and it does it for you you don't even need to add the expression it's not like an advertisement or anything but I'm just saying you get way better results we use motion but this still looks fine it does look bad so you have the text so what we made so far let's take on motion blur and let Sunshower layers I just take a look at all of them and pressing all these here put on motion blur let's take that on do a Ram preview and see everything that we've done in this however long this tutorial was because we're pretty much done at this point I'm going to show you how to do after this a very quick way the add some extra flair and some more a little bit more movement to your text and just this is you is it going to kind of go along with whatever your was ever happening in your audio hold on so as you can see looks pretty cool we have our text zooming in off of the nil and then zooming out and then our text flying in from the right side of the screen and then we have a movement to the left our text coming off of the X rotation doing a little bounce another left turn and then the text flying off of its wire y-axis I'm coming into place and then we have that coming up the mask by the mask with a zoom out using again the no object and each little movement happening after the initial zoom or position movement is happening via that linear null and we have their going there and then the zoom out and then again the rotation another zoom out and then let going back into place the tracking all coming together like that looking very sweet and nice all in sync with that and one thing that we can do is to add just so it doesn't look so abrupt one thing that's the one thing I noticed is that whenever the YZ Nell ended it looked pretty of like I don't know it didn't look right so all we do is on our linear nil go all the way to the end of our our thing and move this down to like 90 so we get a noticeable zoom out significant is a signifying that it's over the tutorials over so let's take a look at that one more time and see what difference the linear null actually added to our animation because if you guys remember what what it looked like before there was really nose like nothing at happen after the the text zoomed out it was just kind of static and look kind of gross so we go what's up happening there you go do that yeah a little extra zoom happening there and it's very smooth animation we put it together and like probably a close to an hour I didn't take very long and that was with me explaining it so if you're doing this on your own time and making all this stuff happen it won't take very long at all so let's talk about now this is just a little bit of extra credit so the main tutorial is all right here it's already done so I love you thanks for watching you want to even participate for extra credit and this is what this is about so now you have this thing going on here and I use this all the time in and tabari projects it's a screen shake and rotation bounce so the rotation is being done through the null object so as you can see once it's oom Zout it goes to from 0 to 4 let's go throw my frame 0 degree is there so there's no rotation and it goes to 4 right there that's when it hits its peak and it goes back down to 0 and then it does a little bit of a bounce right there so as you can take on a wobbles and on top of that there is a our plugin that's third-party so if you don't have this I don't expect everyone to have this I would suggest picking it up I have all the Sapphire plugins right here they're all really helpful there's one called sapphire shake that you can apply into an adjustment layer and set the amplitude on which I'll show you here in a second and it shakes the screen a little bit so if you take a look at AF from here and this frame you can see it's being changed the position of it's being changed and watching it the screen is a little bit of a shake once that happens once you get past this intro bit so on the beat it kind of shakes and there's also a bit of exposure added that's keyframe down so let's go into our actual composition here and we have it right here so if I can take a second to load that because I haven't opened it yet in a little while slit in the make sure let After Effects do its thing load up alright so this is our adjustment layer we have s underscore shake which is that shake the sapphire shake and then we have our exposure so I'm just going to bring that over to this composition that we had here for the example turn off motion blur for faster previews and on the zoom out I'm just going to paste that X for the thing and the reason why it does this is has to do with the sapphire shake it's rap X and rap Y our reflect so you just turn those off and that completely gets rid of the reflecting of the text across the X and y axis and that's cool so it does that little shake and I think it's going to be a lot more noticeable here so if you take a look it kind of the shake is very noticeable so you take a look at that that's what it looks like with it on so this watch how it kind of goes at a place a little bit and then we turn it off and must look like what it off it's nothing's happening right so you guys can see that's happening there and there's also the exposure change which is happening which is kind of subtle actually I don't know maybe it's not even have similar look yeah it is happening it's kind of hard to say so we'll just turn that up so it's more noticeable 0.3 yeah all right WAIS another boy why don't I feel like that's not happening I guess it is I don't know maybe I'm like blind I feel like the exposures on it like let's see I can test it like this yeah it's there just very very subtle for some reason it's just saying it does have to be on top of everything it's like something covering it nope okay well the exposure is definitely there it's just being weird so we have that sapphire shake let's also talk about the rotation a rotation wobble so we're doing that through our first ease null because that's just going to work out better for us so like I said you're going to be animating we're going to do this through linear keyframes because like I said this ease this bounce expression doesn't like to work very well with eased keyframes so we're gonna go three frames in and change this to four degrees and then go back to like by like four frames and then set this to zero and grabbing this expression we will all click on the rotation of our first ease null and paste that and then that's going to add is all going to like everything that's happening here from the zoom out the texts coming in from the side the Sapphire shake and the exposure are all playing into each other so they're all kind of helping each other out to create more like a dynamic movement really easily so we turn on motion blur let's take a look what we got you want to Ram preview there you go so the wobble is very very subtle but I like it so the Sapphire shake makes the screen the way I like to look at it is the Sapphire shake makes the screen look like it's being shook up and it's also making it look like that rotation is the reason like the reason why the rotation is happening is because of that sapphire shake and then it kind of like the wobble or the bounce of the rotation from the null kind of like makes it seem like the Sapphire shake is still happening and it kind of like left an aftermath on the text almost that makes sense like the Sapphire shake happens it shakes the screen and from that sapphire shake the text the reason why it's wobbling is because of that shake it that makes sense so the shake happens and the text kind of wobbles from it and that's how I get that effect and if you watch any - I geography you'll see it a lot like this little effect - and in this example it wobbles a little more but some yeah that's the that's what I use a lot and I'll use this on beats and stuff or there's like you usually in music this is where I'll use this I find it most helpful there but yeah that's pretty much it guys that's it for this little video this is the beginners connect typography in After Effects I hope you guys enjoyed learn a little something about a about typography I think the Parker is really fun so I would you just looking more into it find other tutorials practice do a lot of practice with this you can use it to your advantage is a very very nice thing to know how to do so that's it I will see you guys next tutorial bye

Channel: Caleb Lancaster

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Keywords: kinetic typography, typography, tutorial, after effects, after effects tutorial, after effects kinetic typography, kinetic typography tutorial

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Length: 67min 30sec (4050 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 09 2016