And I have just touched the basics of type-on animations! You can even do an overshoot animation for each and you can animate each letter in the forward, reverse or random order.
This is one of the best features of this software as you can animate different paramters, per letter.
You can do some basic masking animations for text using ‘crop texture’ and ‘crop output’ parameters.You can animate the distance, angle and rotation for drop shadow.You can animate the tumble (x), spin (y), rotate (z) parameters in 3D, even for 2D text.You can animate the x,y,z axes independently for each. You can animate the position, rotation, and scale for the entire word or line, but also for individual letters.
You can determine the color, distance and opacity for each shadow. You can choose between drop shadow, cast shadow and solid shadow. You can set up to 5 shadows for a single layer of text.You can select the position, style and colors fo reach outline. You can give up to 5 outlines for a single layer of text.There are six type of adjustable gradients. You can apply gradient colors to the text.With just a single click, you can arrange the letters of a word in top-down order or reverse (right-left) order.You can set the skew angle (text tilt, per character) and animate it.In addition, you can set tracking (space between each character of a word) and animate it.All basic text features like bold, italics, underline, justify, font style, font size, text color, subscript, superscript, etc.Main Text Creation & Animation Features with BCC Title Studio: Here is a YT Channel for in-depth tutorials on Title Studio. The only issue is, it takes time to get used to their difficult interface, but it’s feature-rich. Not just text, but you can also create and animate shapes, outlines, and other motion graphics. You can access all its features from within the Hitfilm compositor interface – and this add-on has more than sufficient features for creating and animating typography.
No wonder it’s the #1 Choice for Free Video Editors as per this list.īoris 3D Objects is an inexpensive add-on for Hitfilm Express. That’s where the below tool comes in handy. But since it’s not a specialized tool for type animations, you’ll need to learn and work for a longer time. You can do video editing, keyframe-based animations, shape animations (motion graphics), and even text animations. Hitfilm Express is a fully FREE Video Editor + Compositor. This combo of rich video editing/compositing functionality is almost FREE.
Changing either X/Z will rotate the layer in exactly the same way, meaning that one axis of rotation (X in this case) has been lost, because of the gimbal lock problem mentioned above.If you want to create professional 2D and 3D Text/Typography animations, look no beyond Hitfilm Express + Boris 3D Objects add-on. Now try changing the X and Z values, one at a time.
You might want to orbit the camera so that you can see the layer, rather than just its edge.