In this video I'm going to show you guys five
unique text effects to use in your videos and take them to the next level. Now these effects are
not entirely about the texts themselves but also how you put them in certain situations to make
the text look one with the entire scene. So let's not waste any more time and get started. So Number
One is putting text behind objects and that too in just a few minutes, with this effect you can
get really creative and make some amazing videos with very little amount of efforts especially
in DaVinci Resolve, now in order to put some text behind subjects we have to mask the subjects first
now I'm not going to dive too deep on how to mask a subject or a person as I already made a video
on how you can easily do that in a few minutes in resolve so you can check that video out after this
one. For this example though, I'm going to use the magic mask in the color grading window for masking
the subject real quick, drawing over the subject and avoiding the background at the same time, it
should detect the subject relatively easily. In case if it doesn't work well for you then you can
always try switching to the person mode. Now once the masking is done, we can now track it and
once that is done as well we'll have to create an alpha output by right clicking on the nodes
panel and connect the alpha of the node to the alpha output after which we can go back to the
edit tab where we can now add any text behind our subject. You can also stack the same video under
the masked clip and place the text between them to give it a more 3D and realistic look. Number Two,
text and volumetrics - now this effect is really cool, especially when you use it in music videos
or trailers and quite honestly it's really easy to create in DaVinci Resolve. All you need to do
is search for the text+ effect on the effects menu and drag it onto the timeline and add a text
through the dialog box then search for the light- rays effect on the effects menu and drag it onto
your text. You can increase or decrease the length softness and brightness depending on your taste.
But in this case I'm going to turn the softness all the way down and increase the length enough
that the rays go out of the frame completely. Now we can add some position keyframes to animate
the light rays. But we can also spice it up a little bit by masking a clip again and putting
the text behind our subject which will block the rays as it moves creating a nice cinematic look.
Alternatively, you can also put a video Behind the text along with the rays effect which also gives
it a very distinctive look. Number Three fancy sliding down text - Now I know, sliding down texts
are nothing new and everybody probably uses it but when you combine it with some other effects,
it can immediately take your production quality to the next level. But in order to be able to use
this effect that is a condition that needs to be fulfilled, just like this video the backgrounds
should be plain, that is there are no objects cutting through the side of the videos so that
we can stretch out the video from a particular side or from all the sides indefinitely. In my
case, the top side is empty so we'll head over to the fusion page and add a transform node after
the media node. On the inspector panel you'll be able to find Advanced options and from there we
need to change the Edge Behavior to replicate after which we can move our clip around round
and the edges will stretch indefinitely. Now we can animate the movement by adding keyframes to
the Y-Position after which we can ease the motion in spline. The next step is to add the merge node
and then add a text node to the merge node and basically replicate the movement of our clip so
that the text slides down along with the clip. Additionally, you can also add a gradient behind
the text by adding a background before the text node and masking it with a rectangular mask tool.
We can soften the mask edges to give it a gradient look and again replicate the same motion so that
everything slides down together and there you have it, a really simple but very professional way of
adding titles in your videos. Number Four - surface tracker text, if you shot a film or a video there
might be instances where you would want to embed text on somebody's clothings or maybe on a wall
in that case this effect is perfect. So in order to use this we'll have to go to the fusion Tab
and then press Ctrl+Space to bring in the effects menu and search for the surface tracker effect
and add it. It will automatically add the surface tracker node after the media node, now in the surface
tracker controls we'll have to click on the plus bound button and add a few reference points to
create a rectangular shape around the area we want to track, then we can move on to the mesh
tab and select the point locations as uniform grids you can change the horizontal and vertical
spacing to your liking then we can go to the track panel and track the whole thing. Now this mesh can
act weird sometimes so it's better you track it frame by frame. Alright, once the tracking is
done all we need to do is merge a text node to our surface tracker node and position it
accordingly and that's all there is to it Number Five - narrative texts and cinematic titles.
Now these are really common I know that but these are also very much overlooked and these are really
easy to create in DaVinci Resolve within just a few minutes. Okay so creating the narrative text
is really quite simple all you need to do is use the text+ effect and then keyframe the write -
on animation and that's all about it. Now let's jump into the Cinematic title. To create this,
we'll have to add the text+ effect to the timeline and right click on the text dialog box
and select follower then we'll go to the fusion window and go to the modifiers tab here we can set
the order to "random but one by one" you can also change it to other options as well it's up to
you. Then we'll change the delay to about 1.5 or 2 seconds. Now we'll jump over to the shading Tab
and then keyframe the softness X and Y and then we can go back to the tools window and keyframe
the tracking and line spacing, you can also ease up the animations in the spline window if you
find it too jarring and there we go a really simple but cinematic title. Now apart from all
these effects which you have to create manually there are some amazing text animations which are
already included with DaVinci Resolve and these are not just some boring text effects, they look
very professional and sophisticated. So if you're working on a project and you're running out of
time, then you should definitely check these out! So I hope you found this video helpful in some way,
if you have any kind of suggestions do leave them down in the comment section below and I'll see
you in the next one, Bye.
