Drop in by charecter text

[Raivo_Alisausks]

Hello, I am a new user of this forum, but I do use ShotCut to edit my videos that I post on youtube.
I need your help!
I wanted to know if ShotCut has Drop in by character text feature ( animation when text appears one letter at time )
Note! I am not looking for typewriter style text, that’s something different.

The thing I’m looking for can be best described in this video at 1:13

I wanted to know if ShotCut has similar custom preset or HTML file available for that kind of text animation?

[Elusien]

Some of the effects can be done with Shotcut filters and most could be done with the Text:HTML (formerly Overlay HTML) filter, but the WebVfx in Shotcut that is used to do this will be discontinued by the end of the year. See here for some nice examples of my TextFlow filter

Video Title made with Elusien's Textflow feature and Overlay HTML filter

@elusien - I made a demo showcasing all 12 of your Textflow animated text styles (all set to Arial typeface at 100px - with a 2px text shadow applied). I used a different made-up text for each Type: https://streamable.com/p23p7 They look great!! I noticed, though, that some of the styles are not appearing quite like those on your original demo which you posted in your thread: [HTML Filters: Titles, Scrolling Credits, Stopwatches, Gauges etc] For example, Type 4 and Type 11 look quite dif…

and here for information on what o do when WebVfx is discontinued.

What to do if/when WebVfx disappears

This is direct from the Qt website news: Support of Qt 5.9 LTS ends in May 2020. If you are still with Qt 5.9 LTS, update to the soon released Qt 5.15 LTS or Qt 5.12 LTS is recommended. If you can’t update, extended support is available for an additional fee after the standard support ends. Version 5.9 is what MLT-Shotcut currently uses and which is needed for WebVfx. Later versions of Qt do not support Qt-Webkit upon which WebVfx depends. If/when Dan updates MLT-Shotcut to a supported versi…

[Raivo_Alisausks]

Thanks, will look at this.

[jonray]

Hi @Raivo_Alisausks - I just adapted and converted (using @elusien’s HTML/CSS generator) one of my WordSync HTML files and produced this:

The HTML file (marked “Converted”) was applied to a transparent clip on V2 with a blue colour clip on V1.

Please feel free to use it in Shotcut yourself, changing the individual letters to those you require.

Note: The text doesn’t automatically center itself, you may have to change the “left” percentage in the following line (or altermatively add a “size and position” filter to the transparent colour clip).

#container          {background:dodgerblue#;  position:absolute;  width:60%;      height:20%;     top:45%; left: 23%; }

Files you will need: (Unzip):

Wordsync DROP IN TEXT.zip (85.1 KB)