Text: bounce and wave

[Kevin Camp]

You can do this with a text animator and an expression. Try This:

Create your text and add a text animator for position (Animation > Text Animator > Position). Set the y position value to something other than 0 — like 100 (this will be the amount of vertical movement).

Then, for that animator, add an expression selector (Animation > Add Text Selector > Expression) and enter this expression in the expression selector’s ‘amount’ expression field:

f = .5 ; //frequency in cycles per seconds
selectorValue * Math.sin( time * Math.PI * f * 2 + textIndex ) / textTotal

Set the frequency as needed.

The characters in your text should move up and down in a wavy motion. You can also try changing the ‘based on’ value in the Expression Selector to ‘Characters Excluding Spaces’

An easier way, though not quite what they have in your example, is to simply add the Wave Warp effect to the text and set the Wave Width to a large value, like 200. It will make a ripple-like wave, more like a flag wave… very easy and looks similar : )

[Gigi Marzo]

Firstly thank u so much!
I’ll try as soon as possible. 🙂

I tried with the wave warp effect before writing here, but the result is not the same. 🙁

So, any advice for me to learn and understand expressions?…’cause I don’t want to bother you anytime…

[Kevin Camp]

To learn more about expressions you can find a lot on the web by searching “After Effects Expressions”.

I learned a lot in the After Effects Expressions forum here at the Cow. Dan Ebberts has a great site too: Motionscript.com.

This site lists several good resources for expressions: https://motionarray.com/learn/after-effects/getting-started-with-after-effects-expressions/

[Stacey Dunleavy]

did you layer your text over your video and then post it to IG? What format did you export it in?