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Transition with Alpha Matte. This one looks very impressive and with the right resources can be. Bounce Text Transitions Presets contains 12 clean looking and creatively animated text animations. These text animations will help you to enhance the look and feel of your gaming channel, music festivals, promotions, electronic reviews, TV shows, commercials, in-store displays, Youtube and Facebook videos. 10 Free After Effects text animation presets. This is a versatile After Effects Transition Template. With well-designed text layers, smooth transitions and elegantly animated light leaks, it is perfect for presentations, commercials, promotions and event videos. Very simple to customize. Download the template today to enhance your visuals with ease! Available in HD. Happy Slideshow.

Learn how to design different types of animated titles in After Effects for your video production projects.

Whether you’re a video producer or an editor, if you work on corporate or explainer videos, you may need to overlay titles to share information that doesn’t come across through dialogue. Corporate titles are a great way to communicate visual information, and they can lend a stylistic touch to your content.

Creating corporate titles is easy, but the design can make or break your project. If you have to share information through overlaid titles, make sure the animation isn’t distracting and the design flows with your video. The last thing you want is a title that draws attention away from your video content. Keep your information short and to the point.

Download the Free Animated Titles Project File

To download the free animated titles project file from the tutorial above, simply click the following download button.

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By downloading, you agree not to resell or redistribute these free assets.

The Keys to Creating Clean Corporate Titles

The following points can help you create effective titles for your videos:

• Use a clean typeface that’s minimalistic and easy to read.
• If necessary, use two variations of a font style, like “light” and “bold” to highlight specific information.
• If you work with shape layers, try to use the primary color of your logo.
• Keep the title and shape animation subtle. “Easy Ease” keyframes work best.

Creative Title Templates

Templates For After Effects

Pressed for time to create your own corporate titles? Check out these templates from RocketStock.com.

Free Textured Titles

These MOGRT files are perfect for any editor needing a slight grunge-aesthetic for their edit. These are strictly for Premiere Pro users.

Free Hand-Painted Animated Fonts

I guarantee you’ll use this freebie more than once, and you’ll be glad you have this uploaded while you edit. It’s a perfect way to add a fun, lively look to your titles and text—and its FREE!

Designer Titles

Designer Titles is a fantastic resource if you need versatile titles for your next video project.

Venue

Venue is another great template for quickly adding minimal titles to your scene. It’s perfect for modern corporate videos.

24 Free Lower Thirds

If you want to download an amazing collection of free lower thirds for After Effects, check out this free 4K template—ready for your high-res project.

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Add Animation to Your Titles

Now, let’s say you want to animate these titles further, as in adding different types of animations. Below are a few tutorials that might help you with learning the different styles and workflows, all within After Effects.

How to Create Wiggly Text and Animation in After Effects

Once you have your title created, take the production value of your video up a notch by adding the hand-drawn scribble effect to the words (or icons and logos). These are a clever way to add a unique little flare to the edit that your client won’t know they wanted.

How to Animate Individual Letters in After Effects

Take these practices one step further (or many steps further) and learn how to animate individual assets within your graphic. Whether it’s letters or icons, Jason Boone’s tutorial is a thorough guide for understanding the basics of custom title animations.

For additional tips and tricks to make your graphic pop, check out these articles:

So, today I was chilling with one of my good friends who asked me for After Effects advice. If you’re not familiar with After Effects itself, it’s another program by Adobe which sets things in motion, mainly used for motion graphics. Well, today I’m going to take you through a couple basics for After Effects, like transitioning as well as color changing, fading, scaling, things that most users would raise an eyebrow at, but like most we were all beginners at one point in time so for those who need some brushing up or want to get your feet wet we’re going through some basics.
This is what you see first when you first open up after effects. It’s a little intimidating. Though if your screen does not look like this, in the upper right hand corner you will see the word workspace click on that and go to reset standard and you should see what is shown above.

All right if you’ve made it this far then you should give yourself a pat on the back. All right so we’re going to start a New Composition so do to that, go up to Composition then go to New Composition or you can press cmd+N (for PC users ctrl+N should do it for you)

For tutorial purposes we’ll go with the default setting, which for me is 720×480. The duration of your movie is up to you but this is how you would read it 0;01;30;00 means that it is 1 minute and 30 seconds the 0 at the front stands for hours the 2 zeros at the back stands for frames . So therefore 0;01;30;15 = 1 minute, 30 seconds, and 15 frames. For the purpose of this tutorial I’m going to set it at 2 seconds. For whatever reason you wish to shorten the length of your movie you can go to to Composition – Composition Settings and change the duration. So instead of a minute 30, you can change it to 2 minutes which will look like this 0;00;02;00

Don’t be afraid, you’ll see a black work area. Mind you if you toggle the transparency (will be below the black box to the left of the words “Active Camera” – it looks like a grid) you will see that there is nothing there. You’re probably asking why, and it’s because we haven’t put anything in there. So the next step is we’re going to make a New Solid.

To do this go up to:

Layer – New – Solid. It will bring up a screen that was somewhat similar to the one we saw previously. At the bottom you can choose what color you wish, for the purpose of this tutorial I’m going to choose white, but you can choose whatever color you wish. After you do that you will see your screen turn white, it’s what we wanted to do. Now when you toggle the transparency it won’t be blank.

We’re going to make text transition into different colors for this part of the tutorial.
To do that go up to:
Layer – New – Text. Now start typing what you want, for this I’ll type in DEFgraphics. You may be wondering “What the hell why is my text white?!” or “I don’t see it! You’ve failed me!” Never fear, If your After Effects window to the right hand side has effects and presets visable, there should be a tab next to it, click it. It shall bring up your text tab. You will find the effects and presets tab under the Time control tab, if not it should be the 3rd one down.
For purposes I’m keeping it black and I’m going to make it transition into green (hence my icon colors) but if you want to start out with a different color you can it in the character window along with the font you want to use. For me I’m going to use Helvetica Neue Condensed Bold.

All right, for the next part we’re going to animate our text, but before that we’re going to set it up.
In the bottom of the comp window (should have a white (or whatever color you picked) as the bottom layer then it should have the text you typed) click the text layer, then there will be a drop down arrow to the left right next to the lock sign, click it. You will then see the “Text” and “Transform” pop up under it, leave those alone and go to Animate which is to the right hand right of “Text” and click the arrow which will bring up a new fly off menu. You want to go down to Fill Color then go to RGB

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To your surprise it turned your text red. To change the color if it go to the fill color that is to the left hand side and pick a color. Again for purposes I’m choosing green, but you can chose whatever you like.

All right, to make this bad boy transition into a different color you want to hit the Range Selector arrow/drop down. If you want to go from Black (or the color you originally picked) to Green (or the color you picked) you will first start off with the End marker and decrease it to 0%. If you want to go from Green to Black you will start with Start at 100% and End at 0%.

Here I’ll explain both techniques:

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Going from Black to Green.
Start off with End being at 0%. You will then have to hit the stop watch (to the left of End) and move the playhead (the line with the blue pick looking device that is at the start ahead to above 2 seconds or as many seconds as you’d like the transition to occur) – You can also do this by clicking the blue 0;00;00;00 and changing it to 0;00;02;00 to move ahead 2 seconds. at that point move the percentage of the end marker to 100%. Thus it will make your text transition to Green.

Going from Green to Black
Start off with Start Being at 100%. Then hit the stop watch next to Start. You will also need to hit the stop watch for End being at 0%. Now you may be asking “Why DEF?” It’s because you want to go from Green to Black and you want the text to move forwards not backwards. So therefore now click on the blue 0;00;00;00 and change it to 0;00;02;00 then bring End up to 100%. – Thus going from Green to Black.

All right, so the hard part is now over, so I’m guessing by now you’re asking “DEF how the hell do we make it into a movie?” – Never fear, I’ll show. Now you want to go up and click on Composition – Make Movie. Mind you if you haven’t saved your project I’d recommend saving it now. All right so once you click on Make Movie (cmd+M for mac, ctrl+M for PC) your Render Queue will open up. This will be next to the comp window you were working on earlier. So With the settings you want to go down to Render Settings and make sure that Best Settings is showing. Now you want to go to Output Module: and click on Lossless

You then want to go to Format Options then go to Compression Type and change it to Sorenson Video 3 (What I’ve been using and have been taught). You want the Quality to be at Best then click OK. Make sure that your Format in Main Options area is a Quicktime Movie. Then hit OK again. Now you can name your movie by clicking on the Output To: area and naming it. This is where you can choose where to save it to.

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After that you want to hit the Render Button – Now depending on your Ram it could take anywhere from a few seconds to a couple mins. Mind you my video is only 2 seconds long so it shouldn’t be that bad. Once you hit Render wait for it and it should playing a ‘bringing’ type of noise, meaning your video is finished. Now double click and enjoy.

Oh yes, before I forget: This will save you a whole lot of time in knowing where your files are. Go up to File – Collect Files. Click OK. Then the collect files window will open then click OK again. It should compile all your files into 1 folder. If the screen says None (Project Only) – change it to All. (This would be beneficial if you had multiple effects etc) if not then just select None (Project Only) – if it is just text files and it should save it up for you into a folder. Now if you start adding other elements the All will appear when you collect your files. This will save you the time and hassle of trying to figure out where all your files went if you move them around.

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Hopefully I was thorough with you guys on how to make a simple text transition and you didn’t get lost along the way. Mind you this is my first tutorial – so I hope I did a good job for you guys. If there’s any flaws please feel free to leave me a comment and I’ll make changes as soon as possible.
So until next time, have fun doing what you’re doing.
– DEF