Hey, Premiere Pros. It's Paul Murphy here, and today I'm going to show you
how to reveal text with shapes. OK, so today I'm going to show you
the steps that I use to create these motion graphics templates which are available
for purchase on my website. So the first thing we need to do is to add a new graphic clip
with some text inside of it. So I'm going to go over to my essential
graphics panel and choose new text. And I'll just type inside of that
the Premiere pro, and then I'll center it in the screen
using these alignment buttons. And then the next thing we want to do
is to add the rectangle that is going to wipe across this text. So to do that, I'm just going to choose
new layer and rectangle. And if I go and select my selection tool,
what I want to make sure is, is that this anchor point here
is on the right side of the shape. So I'm going to click
and drag this across. Now, if you find that you're not snapping
to the edge of the shape, you can just hold down the command
or control key and that will turn on snapping, I'll go and click and drag
the left side of this. So I make it a narrow line like that, and then I'll move it
to the starting position of the animation. So to the right side of the word,
and then to be organized, I'm going to click the name of this
and I'll rename it Rectangle. And then the next thing I need to do
is to create another rectangle. That's like a mask
that covers up the text. And to do that, he's
a little trick for you to duplicate a layer
in the essential graphics panel. The shortcut key is shift
command or control and forward slash. And I'll just click the name of this
layer here and I'll rename this mask. And down the very bottom here,
I'm going to turn on mask with shape and then I'm going to click invert. And that means whatever this layer
is covering, it's going to mask it out. So if I click the left edge of this shape and drag it out,
it's going to cover up my text now. And the last thing I need is
I need to be able to animate this rectangle here, and I need the mask
to move with it at the same time. And to do that, I'm
going to select my mask layer. And then down here, I have some options
for responsive design position. And this is going to allow me to pin
that mask to the rectangle shape. And if I click in the center
here, it means that all of the edges of my mask will move
when that rectangle is being moved. So now what I can do is
I can go up to my rectangle and I'm going to turn on key frames for position
just by clicking this icon here. And then I'm going to jump forward
one second in my timeline, and then I'm going to drag that rectangle
to the left side of my text. So now we have an animation
that looks like this. Which looks great, but I do find that the animation
is a little bit abrupt at the very end there, and to make this look a bit
smoother, I'm going to select my graphic. I'll go up to my Effect Controls and I want to twirl open the settings
for that shape rectangle. I'll go down to where the position settings are, and I'm going to select
both of these key frames here. I'm going to right click them
and set them to ease in and then ease out. And now we have something
that looks a bit smoother like this. The last thing that I like to add
to animations like this is to not only have the rectangle slide
in from the right, but also have the text slide
in from the left. And to do that, I'll just move my play
head to one second in my timeline. I'm going to go and select my text layer
in the essential graphics panel, and I'll turn on the key
frames for position, and then I'll move
to the very start of the sequence and I'll slightly push
that text to the left. And I'll also add an ease in and an ease out for this animation
as well, to keep it smooth. And then we have something
that looks like this. I hope you found this video useful, and if you did, please like and subscribe
for more videos like this. Don't forget, you can also purchase these
motion graphics templates on my website. Thanks for watching
and I'll see you next time.
Very helpful, thanks!