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  • kinetic typography tips?

    Posted by Alanlastufka on April 9, 2007 at 11:25 am

    I want to try my hand at a kinetic typography video. I guess this is the name they’re giving to the MK12-like videos which are animated almost entirely by text on the screen.

    Here’s two (non-MK12) examples:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syf8olcM0z4
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXxouXt5dz4

    Any obvious tips I should keep in mind before diving in? I plan on making each line/phrase its own pre-comp and then assembling them all together in the end. Just to keep things clean and more “one step at a time”ish. But of all the programs I learned in college, I’ve spent the least amount of time in After Effects.

    Thanks in advance.

    Alan | http://www.fallofautumn.com

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    Darby Edelen replied 19 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Darby Edelen

    April 10, 2007 at 5:34 am

    The only advice I can give (as someone who has never tried one of these) would be pre-comp, pre-comp, continously rasterize, pre-comp, motion blur =)

    The samples you gave piqued my interest, and I think I might try my hand at one of these in the near future (;

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