Not quite Kinetic Type

[John Cuevas]

I would call that exactly kinetic typography. All the monkey products are good, but moving them seamlessly from one phrase to the next can be tough(though doable).

For something like that video though, I would just put my head down and do the work and plug & chug. Copy and paste each word to a new layer, add camera, do moves.

Lots of great tutorials on youtube, lynda, vimeo on Kinetic Typography: https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=kinetic+typography+tutorial&tbm=vid

Here’s one that I think does a particularly good job at illustrating the technique: https://cgi.tutsplus.com/tutorials/design-rhythmic-motion-typography-in-after-effects–ae-265

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

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—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[David Tunnell]

Thanks John, I was figuring I would get that answer. 🙂

Thanks,

David Tunnell
TunnellVision Productions

[Tim Vaughan]

I do this stuff all the time–it’s rather easy once you get the hang of it. Something like what they’ve done is probably a 2-3 hour project for the text animation.

I simply place my text on the scene, depending on how I want the animation to play out I may type each individual word or sentence.

Once everything is where I want it, I’ll check the 3d box and adjust my anchor to where I need the rotation, scale or position to animate from.

I’ve found it’s much easier overall to NOT use 3d cameras and go all out, but rather parenting to each other and/or to nulls for full scaling/positions/rotations.

Also. someone posted this script which I live by. Adjust the amp, freq and decay parameters to your specs, do NOT use ease keyframes, and use about 3-4 frames for the start/end for a nice bounce.

amp = .1;
freq = 2.0;
decay = 2.0;

n = 0;
if (numKeys > 0){
n = nearestKey(time).index;
if (key(n).time > time){
n–;
}}

if (n == 0){ t = 0;
}else{
t = time – key(n).time;
}

if (n > 0){
v = velocityAtTime(key(n).time – thisComp.frameDuration/10);
value + v*amp*Math.sin(freq*t*2*Math.PI)/Math.exp(decay*t);
}else{value}

Tim
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[David Tunnell]

Thanks Tim, I will give it a try, BTW I have used that expression before and it is very handy.

Thanks,

David Tunnell
TunnellVision Productions