Minimalist Lower Third After Effects Tutorial

hey what's up guys this is a tutorial on how to create a minimalistic lower third that you are seeing here I want to say thank Josh who commented on Facebook asking for this specific tutorial to be made he found this lower third on videohive I'll show you the page right here it's this minimalist lower third and there's a bunch of them in this pack that you can purchase but he asked for this one specifically coming up right after this one and it was a little bit trickier than I thought it was going to be so I think it'll be a fun tutorial it should take about 15 minutes or so okay so let's get straight into After Effects so first we want to open up a new composition I'm just going to call this minimalist 1920 by 1080 s great 2997 frame rate ten-second duration great okay so first we want to create the line and the text that appears so that's the first thing we're going to do because this block is a little tricky not too much but it will do it later so with our pen tool and a stroke set at 3 and fill set at none hit okay we're just going to create that line or something that looks like that line so now if i zoom in you can see that here we have our line so we want to animate this on I'll call this line so drop this down to the contents and add trim paths one of my favorite effects drop down trim paths set a keyframe first start and end select those keyframes and move those to about a minute and one second one and a half seconds and then set new keyframes by changing these percentages both the 50 and you'll see now that it animates from the middle from 50% to the start and the end select both them hit f9 on your keyboard to add easy ease and then we can play with the easy ease by hitting this graph editor selecting all the keyframes and dragging the endpoints in so we want it to really slow down into its final spot so this graph editor represents the speed of the animation so you can see there it's a little bit different so that's pretty cool so now we want to add the text so with our text tool just add new text we'll call those fill of inert so we are using the read from before we're just going to hit OK change that to white and we'll increase this to something like that then we're going to duplicate this move it below and i'll call this mo graph artist select all that text use the eyedropper to select the red to change it there and then change the size to 40 we're going to left align these so that they're aligned so under a line panel click that left align if you don't see the align panel go up to window align and then just with our pointer tool our selection tool just make sure that the spacing is good you're happy with it so now we have to animate these to the left of the line from the left to the right so this is our final resting spot so hit position to bring up the position drag these keyframes to about 4 seconds and then drag the text to the left of the line and that creates a new keyframe so now it's going from left to right but we want it to basically be disappeared from the left to the right so we don't want to see it on the left side of the line so how do we do that we create a alpha matte so with our pen tool we're going to create a new shape so basically follow this line so something like that and then create a rectangular shape that basically would cover the entire text at its final resting spot then change the stroke to 0 and the fill to solid color okay so now you see this giant shape and that's not what we're looking for but it's going to help us out so if we call this matte and we change the mograph artist text track matte here if you don't see that hit this toggle switches modes button to alpha matte you will now see the mograph artist text and it will disappear on the left and appear on the right we'll just duplicate this mat drop it right above the fill up inner text change the fill editor text alpha matte or track matte to alpha matte - so now it's doing the same thing for both text layers I'm just going to close down everything and bring the line above everything then we want to bring up our keyframes for our text and play with the speed so select all hit f9 on your keyboard and then in our original lower third the fill up inner text kind of appears before the video creator text so the Video Creator text is kind of catching up they end at the same keyframe the same point in time but the fill abner text starts earlier so I'm just going to drag this first keyframe for the fill abner text to the left and then I'm going to select all of these layers the mograph text and the line and then I'm going to hit this motion graph motion blur checkbox and this enable motion blur button so that that will add a motion blur to our text you will see that it's starting out a little slow so I'm going to go into our graph editor again for our mograph for our tip text select all drag this first one to the left a bit and then this second one to the left as well so it starts faster and end slower so something like that's very smooth very subtle very nice okay so now we have our text coming on the screen we just have to add this shape layer that's coming onto the screen and then disappearing so what we're going to do with our shape layer or with our pen tool is create a shape layer make sure the fill is the same color there is no stroke we could zoom in on this line and then just create a shape starting with this line so hit there there and then go to the right and then go up here and finish it off so it's kind of a trapezoid type figure we want these two points the top left and top right to be parallel so open your rulers which is are these numbers at the top and on the left and click and drag from there you'll see that I can click and drag and a line will basically appear it's not a real line it's just a fake line but it will appear on our composition and I line it up with this first point right here on the left now I could go to this one on my right and drag it down and it kind of locks in place now I'm going to zoom in to the bottom one and I'll do the same and this one looks like it's perfect already now I also want the distance between the top two points to be the same as the bottom two points one way we can do that is by dragging this shape to the left of our line and making sure that it lines up with the line so we can select our points by going under our shape layer path just drag it so that's in the middle of our line same with this one have it line up and have this point line up with the ruler and there we go we have our shape so basically we want this block which we'll renamed renamed to block we want it to go from the left side of the line to the right side of the line and then shrink so we'll do something similar as we did with the text we'll duplicate this block will call this block mat and then with the block mat we're just going to open up the shape properties and go to the path and with these right two points we're just going to drag to the right and we'll create an track mat with this one so selecting the block will change the track map to alpha mat block so now if we move this block layer from left to right you'll see that it disappear is on the left side of that line so what are we going to do we're going to set keyframes so first we want to bring up the keyframes for both the line and the text because this will be we'll be able to reference when we want the animation to start so we want it to start right about there at the end of the line animation so bring up position for your block hit the keyframe button and then go to the very end the last keyframe of the text and move it to the right of the text we also want to add the shrinking effect so with our contents we're going to add a path animation so hit that keyframe button for the path and move this keyframe to the middle of this motion and then at the end we're going to just select our path and select these left two keyframe or points and drag them to the right so it should match up pretty perfectly and then you'll see that there's a little bit of red right there really hardly noticeable but we want to get rid of that and one way we can get rid of that easily is just to cut off the right side of this layer so that we don't see it after this keyframe so select that layer and hit option right bracket you'll see now it basically disappears after there we're going - easy easy frames and play with the motion now and we're also going to turn on motion blur for this layer so we want it to start before the text starts popping out so I'm going to take this position layer keyframe right here this first one and draw it bring it to the left I'm also going to select both the position keyframe get our graph editor and then drag the start to the left so that it sort of speeds up from the first spot and it slows into our second keyframe now if I get out of our graph editor you can see that it's a little too fast so I'm going to drag this first keyframe to the left so it starts a little bit later because if you see our original one it's kind of covering the text until it gets to the middle of animation so we want it to do something similar so it's pops out and it's covering about to the middle so if we play through this we can see what it looks like finally and that looks really cool I mean we can play with the speed of everything we can make it faster I'll show you a quick way to make it faster at the end of this lesson actually so there we have our animation now we want to reverse it so an easy way to do that is select all pre compose it by right clicking and hitting pre compose you can Nate rename it if you want put your time indicator right after the end of the animation so maybe about four and a half seconds we want to cut off the right side of this layer so option right bracket duplicate this layer select both right click keyframe assistant and then sequence layers okay that puts one after the other with this right one the lot second one we're going to right click it hit time time reverse layer okay so now if we play through this you can see that it comes on disappears and then it comes back on and does the reverse so it's a little bit slow compared to our original one so one way to easily speed it up is to pre compose this one well you can rename it if you want right click time enable time remapping and you'll see now there's a keyframe at the start and the very end of this composition if we drag in this last one it's speeding up the animation so now that's a very easy way to speed up the entire animation without having to do it with individual keyframes now of course if you want to go in and if say just that block animation is a little fast or slow you will have to go into the original composition and edit that text but time remapping is a great way to speed up or slow down entire animation okay so that is the tutorial I hope you enjoyed it I'm sorry if I'm a little flustered this is actually the third time I recorded this because the first two got messed up but I've also been able to do it faster and faster each time so if you have any questions please let me know if you know of a better way to animate this let me know in the comments below if you want to purchase this template I'll have the link to the video studio hive lower third template in the description below and if you have anything else let me know please like this video subscribe to the channel and we'll see you in another tutorial hey youtube you like that video well please subscribe to the channel for more check out our website for articles webinars books and more and of course check out our online course library ranging on topics from video making motion graphics photography starting a business freelancing to beer brewing resume writing adopting a cat and much more

Channel: Video School

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Length: 14min 21sec (861 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 07 2015