Animated text effect using my "Blip-bounce" filter set

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I had an idea - to create animated “staggered” text using my Blip-bounce filter-set…

So, I wrote an Auto HotKey script to automate exporting all letters of the alphabet (both capital and lower case), plus non-letter characters, as MOV files…
I chose the font “Grilled Cheese”.
Then I used them to create my animated text.
Here’s a demo video of how I did it… there’s no spoken instructions (didn’t have time) - but I hope folks can follow what I did:

OK it’s a bit of a palaver… and it uses multiple tracks…and a bit of mixing-down (which isn’t for everyone)… but it works for what I want it for - classy animated short titles for my flute videos.

I’m offering the set of my alphabet MOV files for free download to any user who can make use of them. Here’s the link:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1RbE5VeOWyDS-c_1JT1RFCYuY2FLJ_iPc?usp=sharing

My (quite complex) AHK script allows me to fairly easily make further sets of alphabet letters, with different fonts and different animations. If I make any more sets, I’ll share them here.

You can alternatively use Text:Simple clips instead of pre-exported alphabet letters. However, in this case, because the blip-bounce effect involves two SPR filters - one zooming at the centre, and the other one for positioning, it gave a different effect. Not a bad one though, in fact it was a good alternative.

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Looks really good @jonray :+1:

By the way, here’s a little trick to help align each individual letter clips:

  • Create a temporary track at the bottom of the timeline and add a text clip.
  • Leave “Use font size” unchecked.
  • Type all the characters.
  • Select the same font used to create the character clips.
  • Resize the width of the rectangle control and center it on the screen.
  • Choose a color that contrasts with the original text color.

Then use that template to align all the letter clips.
You may need to realign some of the letters at the end, but that takes only a few seconds.

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@jonray. That’s very interesting. I did a quick test, without Auto Hotkey, with 3D letters .png. I like the result.
@Musicalbox. Very clever.

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Great idea to use the template track, @musicalbox… and the white text with the red background looks cool as a text effect in its own right. You could make a PNG from this and use it in projects.

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Taking @musicalbox’s idea a bit further - just a bit of silliness:

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