If the text is the script of a film, the process of creating a video from it will include all the steps necessary for filmmaking. However, you can solve the problem in a different way, and by breaking the text fragment into separate phrases, turn them into a video. To do this, you need to animate their position in the frame using After Effects.
Necessary
- - text;
- - text editor;
- - After Effects program.
Instructions
Step 1
Load the text from which you want to make a video into a text editor and split into separate phrases. Each piece from the set that you end up with should be easily and quickly perceived from the screen. Of course, you can make a video consisting of one crawl line, but watching such a clip will be tiresome.
Step 2
Start After Effects, create a new composition in it, adjust the frame size and video duration. To do this, use the New Composition option of the Composition menu. The length of the composition, you can, if necessary, reduce or increase in the process.
Step 3
Copy the first phrase from the set you created in a text editor. Return to After Effects, turn on the Horizontal Type tool, click in the window in the Composition palette where the video you are creating will be displayed, and paste in the copied section using the Ctrl + V keys.
Step 4
To adjust the parameters of the text, open the Character palette using the option from the Window menu, select the entered text and select the font, its size, style and color. You can make the whole video using one font. Change the size and style to visually separate one phrase from another. For a change, you can only apply a stroke to a portion of the text. Words decorated in this way will stand out against the background of those to which the fill is applied. Select a color for the stroke by clicking on the Stroke Color swatch. To adjust the fill color, click on the Fill Color field.
Step 5
Set up animation of the text layer. To do this, follow the timeline in the Timeline palette to the moment when the phrase should appear on the screen. Click on the arrow to the left of the layer name and expand the Transform group options. After changing one of the values of the Position parameter, move the text out of the visible part of the composition and set the keyframe icon by clicking on the clock icon next to the parameter name.
Step 6
Go to the moment the phrase appears on the screen. By changing the value of the x or y coordinate in the Position parameter, move the text to the visible area of the composition. The animation of the first phrase is done.
Step 7
Press Ctrl + D to copy the text layer, expand its parameters and move it on the artboard so that the icon of the first keyframe of the animation coincides in time with the icon of the second keyframe of the previous layer. Select the phrase on the copy of the layer and replace it with the next text fragment in order.
Step 8
Adjust the position of the new phrase so that it starts to appear on the screen at the moment when the previous text has already taken its place. You can put the second fragment below or above the first.
Step 9
You can add 3D space simulation to animate flat text animation. To do this, apply the 3D Layer option of the Layer menu to all text layers. Use the Camera option in the New group of the Layer menu to add a camera to the composition. Expand its settings, go back to the very beginning of the video and put the keyframe icons in the Point of Interest and Position parameters.
Step 10
To simulate constantly receding text, you need to move the camera away at the end of the clip along the z-axis. Go to the end of the composition and change the z-value for the Point of Interest and Camera Position. This can be done by entering a value using the keyboard or by moving the camera away with the Track Z tool.
Step 11
Add the rest of the text to the composition. When adjusting the start position of the phrase, adjust the z-coordinate of the layer so that the moment the text appears close to the screen. At the final point, do not change the value of this coordinate. Due to the animated movement of the camera, the effect of the inscription moving away from the viewer will appear.
Step 12
You can see a preliminary result using the RAM Preview option in the Preview group of the Composition menu. To save the video, send the composition to the Render Queue palette using the Add to Render Queue option in the same menu.
