Question about how this movie was created? Purely Text. Please help!

[Monica Peña]

Hello, this kind of video can be done with After Effects. I don’t know if with motion you can achieve things like this and I don’t think you can do this with Final Cut, but with AE you sure can, and you don’t need to be an expert to do that.

Good luck!

[David Roth weiss]

That’s almost assuredly created in After Effects. You could do it in Motion as well, or in Combustion, but that one is almost certainly AE.

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[Matthew Mintun]

Thanks David for the input!!! I am going to take a training course in After Effects and see what I can do. Is something like that hard to create for a beginner in After Effects?

[David Roth weiss]

[Matthew Mintun] “Is something like that hard to create for a beginner in After Effects?”

There is nothing terribly difficult about any of the animation in that example, other than the fact that there are many different events and each has to be perfected on its own, then added to the whole. As animation goes this one is nothing but a collection of simple moves, and as a beginner you might struggle at first, but these keyframed moves are definitely something you can learn rather easily if you stick at it.

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[Matthew Mintun]

That is great news! Thanks!

[Mark Suszko]

I’ve only recently started doing these myself in Apple Motion. Steven and others in the COW Motion forum have been very helpful in getting me started.

The keyframing and timing can be painstaking and slow, but the real challenge I find with these is in the design, in figuring out and planning and staging the moves and effects that best sell the text messages while offering enough visual surprises to keep you reading along. Two suggestions I would offer to a fellow beginner are: make good use of grids for planning, proportions, and alignment, and take some of your text keywords into “wordle”, a website that automatically re-arranges blocks of text into interesting visuals, where size represents frequency of the words. You don’t use the wordle output directly, but the word clouds it generates may offer some inspiration and its plain fun.

A google or youtube search for “kinetic typography” may also help.

Thanks for posting that sample link; the split-screen effects from magnification were what I liked most in it. I may steal some for a future project:-)

[Stephen Smith]

If you are using Apple’s Motion then here is a link to a tutorial on the COW about how to create Kinetic Typography. Best of luck.

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