BEGINNER'S Kinetic Typography - After Effects Tutorial

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In this tutorial we cover using null objects to move and size text, linear nulls to add velocity to our screen movement, bouncing text, animating text behind masks, shying layers, and animating text tracking to correspond with our screen movement. Sounds fun, yeah?
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[@Plankeh]

Tutorial starts at 9:09

[@kelp0223]

thanks!

[@vestige0410]

on! very very thanks I was very curious when it would start.

[@omggems4092]

lmao thanks!

[@luangamerbr638]

Thanks!

[@shirlengodet5658]

Thanks

[@miyurinorris158]

Caleb, I seriously cannot thank you enough. I'm fairly new to After Effects, and I've been doing very basic motion graphics to obviously get acquainted with the interface. I've watched endless tutorials on motion typography, and they've done a decent job at getting me to understand null objects. However, this is so in depth and absolutely phenomenal. No idea why this never occurred to me, but using the title safe and the second null literally saved and changed my life lol. SO simple, but ingenious.

[@caleblancaster]

Hahaha, this is a great comment! I appreciate the kind words. The second null is a very simple, but incredible trick. Works so well for many different things.

[@elizabethdonnellan4034]

This tutorial took me HOURS, but i was starting out with next to no previous experience. This was really helpful and enjoyable!

[@andrewchristofil3368]

Anyone who has the time to watch and follow along will benefit greatly from this tutorial. Great work Caleb.

[@ciaratobin]

This tutorial is so awesome! You can also center your text by having the "Pan Behind (Anchor Point) tool (Y) icon" selected from the top bar, double-clicking the icon while holding down the "Command Key."

[@alishalistya7750]

a lot of people talked about how much talking in this video. but for me, a beginner, personally you explained a lot of things! really helpful thankyou

[@esmaeelsamhan8161]

The null object advice was the best thing i ever heard since i started learning after effects ! Lol parenting a null object is really a bliss and saves ton of time! Thanks alot man , Keep on making cool Beginner videos like these because they rock and we need them. Good Job P.S : I also subscribed to your channel ! And i am officially waiting more videos bro! Ismael

[@caleblancaster]

Very happy to hear I could help! I agree, parenting the null object is a great technique. Thank you for the kind words.

[@malikmusanna]

I was using After Effects for the first time and across all the youtube i could search, this video helped me the most. Even though you talk a lot and irrelevant at times but ill really life to thank you for helping. More power to you. thanks.

[@TheYarro]

I can't believe I paid to be in college to find my way to youtube and follow the instructions of a teacher whose providing the lessons I need for free. Is the school system broken? possibly.

[@itsmeaspara_gus]

been broken a long time ago, not just for people trying to learn kinetic typography

[@aeginapinkney5263]

It's always been broken..

[@Ksmth007]

Point blank... Period!

[@deancreate]

This is exactly what I’ve been looking for - thank you!!

[@goosane]

Thanks for making this tutorial. At the end when you're tracking the letters, the A is staying centered when there are 5 letters because your text is center aligned and it's the middle letter. When you changed it to "TRACKS A" it didn't keep the middle A static because the space between TRACKS and A is interpreted as a character. Your theory about using words with an odd amount of letters is correct, but the space messed you up.

[@kelp0223]

This guy has a REALLY nice voice. And I think that, because he has such a nice voice, he likes to talk alot. This is, honest to god, a 10 minute lesson in 67 minutes. Good information if you can find it! Good luck!

[@MaryHuddleston]

Thank you for doing this! Today was literally the first time I've ever tried using After Effects. Even had to download it from the CC. Except for getting to know menus as I go along, I've learned so much just digging in with this. I hope your cat got plenty of pets after you were done recording. It's hard to mouse while a cat is trying to shove it's head under your hand for pets! hahahah been there.

[@brankolojanicic7590]

Excellent Tutorial!! In-depth, step by step, easy to follow.

[@nikdonayre]

This tutorial was very helpful, also love the subtle logic instrumental in the background.

[@syntheticmadeline1396]

5 minutes in, and I can already tell how good of a tutorial this will be! I have captions on as well, and you're speaking so clearly, that so far, that hasn't been one mess up with the auto-generated captions. Which make me happy, because I sometimes have to read the words as well haha. But anyway, thank you for this tutorial, and going into much detail! That's very important for a beginner's tutorial, and I've tried many kinetic typography tutorials for beginners, and this is the best one yet! I'm sure that the hour of learning this will be worth it :)

[@polariti1820]

Awesome tutorial! Very in-depth and clear to understand. Thanks!

[@hexaaron]

Awesome video. I'm completely new to Ae so need to learn the basics from adding the text to setting the layout of the interface.

[@nathanksimpson]

I am an After Effects beginner. This was a great help to me. I tried to make a rap kinetic typography video... so... exhausting. So many words per minute, but the visual metaphors are quite interesting. Thanks for posting this. This video has so many basic concepts for After Effects I feel like I need to watch it more than once.

[@kapambwekapambwe4131]

i wonder how far youve taken it today. Am just starting out as we speak

[@alanmcleod4068]

Fantastic video mate, for your dilemma at 54:38, i think it would work for 3 letter and 5 letter words, but like you said, anything above that wouldn't stay static.

[@TheRealDayOnez]

the more i pay attention the better i understand,this video actually helped me out.

[@zakiynur]

Thank you for your tutorial and expression text! It means a lot for me

[@knottykao]

This tutorial was just amazing it helped me so much with my animation ♥♥♥! Can't thank you enough! Really love your voice too :D.

[@mikeboken3764]

Incredible opening

[@peudroid]

The tracking makes odd numbered text have the middle one static. It's just that the space is counted as a character, so you spelled "tracks_a". also it depends if the type have all the characters have similar to monospace widths.

[@GreekGadgetGuru]

Thorough as heck!

[@amanuelkassa4980]

thanks a lot i dont know why your video didn't came before.thanks bro.really

[@waterm3lonlover937]

If any1 else is having troubles finding the handles in the Ease graph(and if your graph looks different then in the video), next to the eye icon(graph properties) you have a button to choose the graph type, click on it and select 'Edit Speed Graph' and it should switch your graph to allow the handle bars manipulation.

[@robynfox5489]

Thanks! I'm getting started with kinetic typography. There's lots of inspiration here :-)

[@shehabmokshed8214]

The Best Easy Tutorial to Learn 1st time Kinetic Typography...Anyone can understand Easily....Best of Luck Sir !! Share a New Technique Tutorial on Kinetic Typography in new year 2022. This will be very helpful. Please !! What is the actual name of Plugin you told in the tutorial (s_shake ?)

[@jaypeeg.u8576]

Thank you so much for your videos, a great help for us who are new to after effects! :)

[@MarieJFE]

Hi! Thanks for this tutorial! I'm a media student, and I have a project doing Kinetic Typography, and instead of getting help by my tutor I'm watching this, as this is better haaha! I would really appreciate if you could add a bit text in your tutorials, so when you say a shortcut you write it in the video aswell, I struggled a bit with finding out how to make my keyframes ease, as you only said f9, and that didn't work for me, but I figured it out! I also really like how you have setup your workspace, so would be really cool if you could show us how to set it up like that. Thank you for making this!

[@MarieJFE]

I also can't get that bow in graph editor, eventhough my keypoints are ease

[@caleblancaster]

The graph editor is where you create the bow yourself, you need to adjust the keyframes manually. I'll be doing a video shortly talking more about the graph editor.

[@videomontazh_]

cool! I spent the day on this tutorial! I'll be a master of kinetic typography thanks to you)

[@PompeyProductions]

I know i'm kind of late and new to this stuff, but i think on the tracking animation, when you put "tracks a", none of the letters remained static b/c that is actually 8 characters instead of 7 (the space between the s and the a is included). If you take out the space, the middle (4th) character will remain static.

[@caleblancaster]

You are correct! After rewatching this video I noticed that I added the space without realizing it, figured that was the case.

[@reecesmith567]

Awesome video, really helped me understand the basics!!

[@racheltam2083]

Lol got lost 30 minutes into the tutorial but figured out a ton of cool stuff. Great tutorial none the less, thanks for sharing.

[@SyhrAnn]

thank you. i can say with confidence this works

[@GLO-Brasil]

thanks man this thing worked thanks a lot man love lots keepsafe!!!

[@FreedomToSeek]

Thanks for sharing this. It was exactly what I was looking for

[@turkerhocaoglu8884]

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[@tomshearman6963]

This video was so helpful! thanks man :)

[@bassert1966]

Nice tutorial Calab. Are you familiar with Dia agency by Mitch Paone? They make superb (GIF) graphic motions. Looks simple but also programmed. Or is it also After Effects? Thanks!

[@petragrguric9037]

video super bien explicado muchas gracias bro...

[@muktar_kita]

good thankyou so much i need this tutorial for my exam. verry thanks

[@hezaweetofficial916]

This really helped thanks a lot!

[@mei-pr8ov]

Is there a more recent after effects tutorial on kinetic typography?

[@rightnowmedia5229]

I can't thank you enough for this. Thanks

[@RutheHk]

maybe its because you added a space between the (s) and the (a) when you wrote (tracks a)at 54:01 , so when you count the amount of letters being used its still a even amount , witch would explain why it did not work

[@TheNanda96]

That intro!!! love it

[@mehmetkisacikoglu1293]

I am not an expert even I would say I am a begginer but I would recommend you to precompose layers instead of using null objects top of each other //That way you would keep your main copm clean and well orginised actully this is what precomposing for ;D

[@TuanAnh1992]

More video about typographic on after effect please, thanks so much

[@amyra98]

Thanks bro, you're my hero

[@johnalmighty]

You’re a GOD.

[@nalunratdabpimsri4818]

Muchas gracias!El mejor!

[@zakariaboukabou5942]

great job man , I was just wondering if the song you used is copyrighted

[@neeneecreative5791]

right click on a layer/ transform/center in view is the best way to center objects.

[@DreamArt]

So useful, thank you.

[@johnnyfrago5427]

So I have a question. When making a song with 2 or 3 verses and a chorus and overall, just multiple sections, you obviously don't want all of those verses and choruses on the screen at the same time, so how do you get one verse or stanza off of the screen so the next verse or stanza can show up? Do you just end the first verse words by cutting off the little red layer bars on the layers panel? Or is there some other way that I'm not aware of. I'm fairly new to AfterEffects and I'm making lyric video's for my band called Frago. Sorry if this is a dumb question. Lol.

[@travispryd1609]

Loving the tutorial...the explanations are awesome and give attention to some detail a beginner or layman would ignore. Good job bro! Hope you can help me in my journey to going commercial. Currently I haven't made a dollar from any of this but hopefully will do later haha! ;)

[@cinlo6592]

thank you for this video! will you be doing any more?

[@tp_ya.ya2022]

100% working.....Thanks very much

[@laurathistle4293]

Hey! How did you get that bounce over effect on laughter? Is it the same as the rotation and sapphire shake you showed how to use on the zoom out? Also I tried to download the project file but the link says the "product doesn't exist". Thanks!

[@timoteathecat6056]

Hi! Thank you so much for this tutorial. I am using AE 5.5. I would ask you why when I click the button 'region of interest' it selects the whole screen? I must need to do something else as the animation goes for ever ignoring the starting and the ending point. Thanks a lot.

[@XTHHedgehog]

How do you get that panel you worked on the text with like that? Is it a different workspace?

[@Chiara288Kinga]

Thank you so much for this video! It's really useful. I'm a begginner and it's perfect tutorial for me. I'm waiting for more :D ~Kinga

[@madevelopers4644]

Thank you so much for this....

[@jesses911]

Hi Caleb, not sure if anyone else had this problem but i got to the second part of after, and when i tried to move the zoom out it would not move as one unit, I could only pull one text at a time not the text zoom out together.

[@0the0ambient0]

Great explanation

[@phillipbaek41]

OML great tutorial, but could you please give the link to download motion2 pls?

[@caleblancaster]

www.mtmograph.com/mt-mo-motion-2/motion-v2

[@samarthgupta9562]

I'm having a problem here.... The word TRACK you took.... In yours A is stable.... bt in mine T is.... the problem is those tracking points which are at centre in your tutorial bt in my project there are at left hand bottom corners... how to move them??

[@dekafmusic]

Hello, i have a question about how you make the scale property to still show under when you have collapsed a layer. I use After Effects 2020. I tried to find out how to pin it but it seems there is no way.

[@amartyapaul4561]

54.00 (track a) there is a space so total 6 letters not uneven to work properly

[@amartyapaul4561]

And grate tutorial by the way, and i like that you talk in between... Makes more humen than planed out normal tutorial... This way I learn from your mistakes tooo ... 👍

[@GreenT100]

i owe you my life

[@VichhayAshira]

Thank u it worked.

[@bigsamuelh024]

It was a bit loooong, an hour vid... but it was helpful thank you Caleb Lancaster!

[@mihirkardile6676]

"We messed with the position of our Ease null... right? We messed with it... so it's not our Ease null anymore..." Hahaha I swear this had so much sad emotion in it

[@Nataly080186]

@18:32 I don't have a loop... why? I have only a half loop... thank you so much for this great tuto!!!!!!

[@Emmazzing]

great tutorial! Thank you!

[@anh_dailylife]

thx my brother its realy works

[@dolok1234]

Where did you learn how to do expressions? I've been trying to teach myself but haven't been able to find any good resources.

[@caleblancaster]

I got my introduction to expressions when I first started learning After Effects through Lynda.com - I'd suggest taking a class there! Or for free you could definitely try out some KZbin tutorials, try searching, 'after effects expressions tutorial'

[@dankedits1798]

I love this

[@Toxysmith]

[@MrsSaiyan]

Thank you for enlightening us c:

[@sharksplayer33]

are you able to rotate x & Y using the null? say when you did "masked" and zoomed out, could you rotate that to zero and have the other words rotate too?

[@caleblancaster]

Kyle Fairchild you sure can!

[@kkol4618]

the project file link doesnt work

[@sfogo2896]

Thanks buddy...

[@Parsons360]

Incredible dude, do you take requests? I will pay. I only need a 16 second one..

[@caleblancaster]

Contact [e-mail] with more information on what you need done

[@asmazaffarshaffaq1893]

Can we do Typography in notebook 🤔

[@curst768]

Hey i need some help, every time i click the square to allow xyandz rotation the whole comp goes black apart from that certain text, any advice?

[@caleblancaster]

When you're clicking that square you're making the layer 3-demensional, a lot of the time in After Effects 2D and 3D layers don't mix very well. Try making everything in your composition 3D (click the square for each layer)

[@BusinessAnalystGuru]

what mic are you using to create this video?

[@caleblancaster]

The Blue Yeti microphone.

[@laurensdesmet7835]

Thx for this, you added a space and an A on Tracks A making it even ;)

[@thebigtine]

Hi Caleb, I know you said you're not that good at the graph editor, but hope you can help me with this... When I highlight my eased keyframes and click on the graph editor I get a sort of vertical scale as if it was still linear, not the "hill" (see linked images)... any ideas? first image: pasteboard.co/YlSQzE2A.png 2nd: pasteboard.co/YmFKT6HF.png cheers!

[@marliee.1252]

Click the second button in the bottom of the screen when the graph editor is opened (=choose graph type and options) and then instead of "edit value graph", make sure "edit speed graph" is selected. Now you should see the hill shapes :)

[@1029944]

My ZOOM letters scale up from all the way from the right of the screens why is that? is doesn't pop up like how yours is...

[@OmarEziz]

Hi i can't access the pastebin link for some reason. can you please link me a dropbox or google doc link? thanks a very informative tutorial. (Y)

[@caleblancaster]

Omar Eziz 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); amp = .05; freq =1.7; decay = 4.0; value + v*amp*Math.sin(freq*t*2*Math.PI)/Math.exp(decay*t); }else{ value; }

[@Hermionegoh]

I didn't know i could still laugh watching a tutorial. hahahhaha....this is entertaining and helpful at the same time! Thanks !

[@mizanurrahman2851]

Nice Video Sir

[@th.e.nglish]

it's not just 5 letters, it didn't work with 7 because you used spacebar so it was theoretically 8

[@PulockMaheen15]

Awesome Tutorial, man. Say Hi to your cat from me

[@abdielsaputra7624]

Why you not use a camera?

[@caleblancaster]

AB MotoVlog I personally feel like null objects are easier to control

[@SevenDos]

Thank you so much for that null object tip. It made my project that much easier.

[@MelHolzman]

great video thks