Chat window

[Graham Quince]

i presume you mean simulate a chat window in video right?

if that’s the case, it’s really very easy. Create a black solid, and use a square mask to set the size and position to the where you want it. Open up the layer opacity, the ‘t’ key and set it to 10% or whatever.

Now click on the test tool, and draw a box to match the size of your mask. you can now add type and the text will wrap itself within the confines of the text box.

Graham

[Seth Taylor]

Or, you could record your screen while you chat with someone, then import that to your movie.

[Cuel]

Ok thanks. But I need to know how to make the text “move up” when new text pops up. So example
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[bla]says: yo
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i want it to move up when someeone writes back, like this
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[bla]says: yo
[ey]says: sup
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[Filip Vandueren]

1. Create your text layer with all the lines in it
2. Add an animator: Animate: Opacity. set opacity to 0, your text will disappear
3. Twirl open “Range Selector” -> “Advanced” and set Units to “index” and Based On to “lines”
4. Close the Advanced Twirl
5. give the AnchorPoint this expression:

   leading = 50; // change this value to the leading of your textlayer
animOffset = text.animator(1).selector(1).offset;
[0,leading]*animOffset;

6. Now animate the Offset-parameter of the Animation Range from 0 – # of lines

The trick lies in animating with pauses and hold-keyframes, so it actually looks like someone is reading, then sending instead of just a stream.