In this tutorial you'll learn how to create animated typography synchronized with musical events (lyrics). You'll learn how to fit your typography to a rhythm, add dynamic animations and use the camera and motion blur to create a high-end final effect. This tutorial showcases a technique that is highly sought after in motion graphics today.
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Please note: this video contains some swearing in the track 'Bleed It Out' by Linkin Park, which is used as the musical source. The tutorial will demonstrate how to create animated typography for the lines 'Here we go for the hundredth time / Hand grenade pins in every line'. The effects in the rest of the video can be created with the same techniques shown in the tutorial.
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( ADD YOURS )AMPLES REGIANI January 2nd
Woww! Very nice!
( )realy realy gooD!
tnks aetuts!
Momo January 2nd
exceptionnel !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
( )khesselink January 2nd
OMG how awesome… i’m really going to do this one
( )Tristan Hohne January 2nd
this is so great! Thanks for bringing up a howto finally
Always wanted to try that out
( )Vladimir January 2nd
Great…
( )Don January 2nd
Ohh, that’s sweet. I really need to get back in to AE…
( )Symplicity00 January 2nd
Very Cool tutorial, Thanks a lot
( )For those who are interested in motion typography, I saw the similar tutorials on http://www.crookedgremlins.com/09/01/2008/kinetic-typography-tutorial/
which are pretty great as well.
Daniel Apt January 2nd
First!
Lovely effect! Thanks
( )Dimix January 2nd
really good tutorial, i am not so good with AE and i get stuck with some shortcuts you use , but finally i did it.
thank you very much for this tutorial.
sorry for my english
Dimix
( )DP January 2nd
This looks great
( )Marek January 2nd
love it and love this site!!
( )keep up teh good work!!
Ronny January 2nd
Finally! I’ve been looking for this kind of tutorial for a long time, without finding anything simple enough for me!
( )Nate January 2nd
That looks awesome.
( )Dan January 2nd
I have been looking for something like this for a bit. Thanks.
( )Bruno January 2nd
Excellent tutorial. Congratulations.
( )Tenoch January 2nd
THKS…..
Good Work….
( )Viktor January 2nd
Nice tut.
( )Great to learn camera controls.
Branden January 2nd
Very Awesome effect. If only I could do everything. Photoshop, Illustrator, CSS, XHTML, Javascript, XML, After Effects, & Flash. My head is going to explode.
( )twiroo January 2nd
wow! preview really rock! i’ll definitely go next
( )Tenoch January 2nd
¿How can you use command key and move in the time line and hear the music fast?
I do it but I can not hear the music….
THKS
( )john June 20th
hold the ctrl key while moving the scrubber
( )Serkan July 5th
Thank you
I cant not hear music. But I can hear.
“ctrl + mouse”
Bakir January 2nd
FANTASTIC!
( )Koeor January 2nd
Awesome ! O_o
( )Bendsen January 2nd
SO FANTASTIC ! ^^
( )JoNuggs January 2nd
Very cool. Good job! I like the trick with linear interpolation to correct those roving keyframes.
( )Armando January 2nd
AWESOME!!!!!!!!
( )giackop January 2nd
i love it.. it’s simple and useful.. 10x
( )ZephiR January 2nd
TY!
( )awesome!
Evan Riley January 2nd
Amazing tutorial. Just downloaded AE about 2 weeks ago. wanted to learn how to do this. THANKS!
( )Momo January 2nd
look here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5p3CTzQNXQ
( )sunion January 2nd
this looks awesome!
( )Dan January 2nd
Very cool. Thanks a ton!
( )snyonz January 2nd
Yea the best TUT I have ever seen..
it just awesom
thank you for posting
( )Lloyd Alvarez January 2nd
>>How can you use command key and move in the time line and hear the >>music fast?
Hold the Option (Alt on PC) and Command (CTRL on PC) keys down while scrubbing the timeline
( )julito luengo March 18th
thanks
( )Enrique December 5th
How can to deselect the text to keep writing in another layer
( )Salmen January 2nd
WWOOOOWW
( )Awesome
Good job
Frederico Phillips January 2nd
this tutorial was just great, more stuff from Markus would be cool!….
( )AWSOME! MJAU!
Ben Carroll January 2nd
Could’ve been better.
( )You just showed us how you made yours. You didn’t go into explaining anything about typography and how it works.
It wasn’t so much a tutorial to me as it was just a demonstration.
Toni January 2nd
Simplemente genial!!
( )Gracias!!
Tetris January 2nd
SWEET! I think this is absolutely great. He must be a god or something.
( )Andrew Hawryluk January 2nd
@Ben Carroll,
I made a typography video – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lFkNLNm-gg#
Not to kiss my own ass, but I feel as if it’s a fairly good demonstration of typography, seeing as I stick to one overall design – the presentation of business cards. I could maybe do a tutorial on the importance of a theme, if that’s what you’re looking for.
If anyone else wants something like this, just reply back and I’ll get crackin’
( )owl January 2nd
Sweet tutorial thanks for this
( )Momo January 2nd
Awesome
( )dragyn January 2nd
Finally a site dedicated to AE. I just finished my first kinetic typography project for school and I cannot wait to do another one. thank you AE TUTS
( )Miguel Reyes January 2nd
Great tutorial and work flow. Looking forward to seeing what else you come up with.
( )Mikkel January 2nd
This is just awsome! A further video with more advanced tips on the topic would be great too…
( )Pixelito January 2nd
Great Tutorial but sadly only a small part of what you showing in the introduction video. Why not all steps incl. the great titlescreen?
( )Sully January 2nd
great tutorial, thanks
( )Brandon January 3rd
Really quick question; please tell me how you made the intro
( )I’ve been trying to do it just can’t; and I d love to see an continuation.
sike January 3rd
wow, pretty cool.
( )illd January 3rd
Good to know that this technique is all handmade, I always thought there are some special expressions/presets to handle this.
No offense, but the tutorial isn`t very well explained, for example the maskanimation…
Thanks anyway!
( )VertigoSFX January 3rd
Holy crap this is amazing. I didn’t watch the tutorial yet but the preview is top notch. Love the effect! Can’t wait to try it!
( )Carlos January 3rd
AWESOME! thankyou!
( )Miguel Saldaña January 3rd
Wow dude thats awesome is dat the lyrics to linkin park – bleed it out…its awesome dude…
( )Miguel Saldaña January 3rd
ok im stupid for askin that i couldnt hear da sound because i had it on mute….
( )vipulsatya January 3rd
that’s god damn awesome!
( )exido January 3rd
You chose the right music man
mind blowing
( )Stanley January 3rd
Some parts of the tut go quite fast :/ but still it is doable
( )Joe January 3rd
chapeau!!!
( )boogle362 January 3rd
Thank you!
( )McH January 3rd
Really cool! I was looking for a tutorial like these one! Amazing! Thank you for offer tuts for AE!
( )a volunteer
callegg January 3rd
Tack så mycket, det här ska jag försöka mig på ;D
( )wolf January 3rd
fantastic!
( )Fred January 3rd
thanks so much, just what i needed!!!
( )eldee January 3rd
you answered my prayers!
yaaaaay best new years everrrrrr
( )dayanithi January 3rd
thanks machi!
( )spacemud January 3rd
I havn’t watched the video yet so if it’s already been mentioned I apologise, but could someone tell me the font used in the video?
Also, great tut, been looking for some of these.
( )Markus Gustafsson January 3rd
Hey! The font I used is Savings Bond, http://www.dafont.com/savings-bond.font
Cheers!
( )wickhamdesign January 3rd
awesome.
( )retis January 3rd
nice (i love Linkin park)
( )Oli January 3rd
Awesome
( )Rik January 3rd
really really lovely! i`m getting into AE so i`m very pleased with this tut, thanks!
*’:Rikster_
( )Ani January 3rd
Great stuff! Outstanding tutorial.
More more more!
( )Vali January 3rd
cool stuff, i made the whole thing, i hope you don`t mind, i did it as a test, here is mine
http://blip.tv/file/1633751/
( )Iman January 3rd
WOW!!! thats amazing , didnt know that it was so simple
thank you!!!
( )Anthony January 3rd
My brain just had an orgasm of ideas from this. I can’t believe how easy and yet powerful this effect can be! Thanks again!
( )BORABORA January 3rd
Yeah, my wishes came true
Typography in motion!
( )GREAT!
Ash A January 3rd
Great tutorial! It’s the first time I used AE and this tutorial was a great way to learn.
Managed to make the animation here:
( )http://www.lemonlimedesigns.ca
adrian January 4th
awesome!!!
very nice,
( )very special
and very easy
DKumar M. January 4th
Nice Tutorial mate. I just start using AE and these tutorial help my way to pro.
Thank You guys.
( )Simon January 4th
Excellent tutorial! Very easy to understand.
( )Umar Salman January 4th
Dude very impressive – will be contacting you – and I will be trying my own video after watching this.
( )Ashin January 4th
Thanks for the tutorial! But it isn’t very clear at some parts. For a beginner in AE, I find this tutorial only helps me “half-way”.
Cheers!
( )accessoire January 4th
Wow now that was impressive! I didnt expect such good stuff to be on this site! Maybe I should try out AE for fun :O!
( )w January 4th
hell… yeah! o_o
( )Ray Z. January 4th
Great work!
)
( )You just made me want to go try out my AE after all
Thanks!
macias January 4th
rocks ! need to try AE
( )insic January 5th
awesome!
( )Menesesvfx January 5th
mega Thanks!!!!!!1
( )Mathias January 5th
Pure ninja! Great one Markus!
( )Daniel Geraldi January 5th
fantastic!
( )Bryan January 5th
Wow this is fantastic! Can’t wait to give this a try. Thanks Markus!
( )Birger January 6th
Hi, Thanks for the very nice tutorial.
But I have a question: Why is it usefull to take a null object to animate the camera instead of animating the camera itself?
( )Garrett January 6th
Now I have yet another piece of software that I HAVE to learn! Haha
Pat yourself on the back… that was brilliant.
( )John Dangerous January 6th
Sweet Jesus. If anyone needs some insporation, check out kinetic type on youtube.
Nicely done. This site is going to rock
( )Héctor Pozo January 6th
bonito trabajo, vamos a hecharle un vistazo al tuto, desde Chile saludos y gracias!!
( )mehdi January 6th
excellent tutorial
( )mehdi from france !
mikypl January 6th
here is mine:
( )http://www.dailymotion.pl/mikypl/video/13356229
Juan January 7th
Lloyd Alvarez I LOVE YOU!!!! THNKSSS, AND GREAT TUTO!!!
( )Isis January 7th
YOU
ARE
THE
BOSS!!!!
Great and beautiful effect!!!
^_^
( )Heaven Ideas January 7th
It’s really encouraging to see this tutorials! There’s dome great stuff!
Thanks TUTS FAMILY!
Keep up the awsome work!
( )zedho January 7th
It remember me something :
http://www.dailymotion.com/thefrenchflavor/video/x5972r_drum-brothers-live-uncut-ft-c2c-pfe_music
Nice tut !
( )Markus Gustafsson January 7th
That video was awesome zedho!!
( )mikypl January 8th
http://blip.tv/file/1643663
( )Skyfred January 8th
Thanks guy, your tut is just AMAZING !
( )Markus Gustafsson January 8th
Hahaha! Loved you video mikypl! “bigger, bigger… I said bigger man”
( )vipulsatya January 8th
how did you create that cool animation in the starting.. pls give some idea about that.. it’s one hell of a thing!
( )mult1 January 8th
omg.. found what i was searching for..
( )excellent tute.thx !
CardiacSeven January 9th
Great tutorial topic AND presentation AND music… FTW!
( )Adam January 9th
I love this tutorial; this is amazing work, well done!!
( )gtaspider January 10th
I like it
Nice tut, here is my typographie 
( )http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpmbe6c0cn0
Daniel-FCL January 10th
Good tutorial.
It would be nice if he could avoided all the typo positioning work;but is just a detail.
( )Yohn Dooh January 10th
Stunning!
( )paintballbob January 10th
this page dies in internet explorer 7
i cant show my friend this awesome tutorial!
( )Fori January 11th
Hey! Whatch my Typography
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ng3J89Um4zM
Comment pls!
( )Thank you!
hafeez January 11th
Thanks so much Sir!
( )adrian January 11th
wow One of the best tutorials i’ve ever seen !!!
( )thats absolutely fantastic
thanks
i’ll put a effekt like this in my header
Leonardo Miranda January 12th
The Best Tuto !!!!
http://www.leomiranda.com.br
( )http://www.leonardomiranda.wordpress.com
Mike January 13th
Can someone explain to me why people use parented nulls instead of just controlling the camera directly??? This is the third time I’ve seen it. Am I missing out on something???
( )MikeM January 14th
another great site for stuff on typography is ilovetypography.com -chicago website design
( )Bueaka January 14th
Great tutorial!
( )Here’s my attempt :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBm9QW3-Eb8
mult1 January 15th
wow! awesm man!
( )John January 15th
How can you hear the song while scrolling over it?
I tried holding command + control and every possible combination, but nothing seems to work.
PLZ help!
PS. I’m on a Mac…
( )John January 15th
Never mind i figured it out..
LOL.
Great Tut btw
( )viktor January 17th
fantasssticcccccccccccccccccccc
( )i love it
Oscar January 17th
Here is my attempt: http://vimeo.com/2762207
( )mike January 19th
envato.kicks.ass.
nuff said.
( )Mark Bowen January 20th
Absolutely fantastic tutorial Markus well done.
I was just wondering if you or anyone else knows how do you do the type of effect where something looks like it is pinned at say one of its corners and then it swings, bounces or pulsates so it looks real. I mean if you bounced a ball it would start off bouncing high and then get smaller and smaller in increments but doing all that by hand would take a while. Does After Effects have any kind of tweening like Flash has?
Best wishes,
Mark
( )aimfire January 22nd
you have saved my alevel! my tutor hasn’t got a clue! great tutorial thanx so much, just hope i can manage to make my final piece now
( )x
aimfire January 24th
wheres the tutorial gone???
pleaaaaaaaaaaaaseeee put it back up!!
( )x
Neil January 25th
WOW!
( )radicalradical January 27th
Hi Markus:
Great tut! I’m trying it out for myself.
Question though: when zooming into text, the text starts to pixelate. I read somewhere that text is treated almost like vectors and that text layers are continuously rasterized so it shouldn’t lose quality.
any suggestions as to why mine is pixelating? here’s a typography with text reaaaally zoomed in : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0LIvrxf-R0
Thanks!
( )Aquafina January 27th
This is impressive! I have been looking for a tutorial like this one for quite some time now. What happen to the tutorial?
( )Aquafina January 27th
I found the tutorial! Thanks for sharing such a great talent.
( )Tammy January 28th
Totally new to this program ( just using the free download for 30 days) Im stuck on the importing music. Can you use a mp4 file? I can’t play it. Sorry…I’m just ignorant to this program right now.
( )Tyler January 29th
Extremely Helpful!
( )klaus January 30th
Sweeeeeeeet Thanks alot for this one
( )bobmartien February 1st
AWESOME !
i’m french and i hope can understand all of this amazing tuts !
Thks !
( )jrbamberg February 1st
I couldn’t get the null object part to work. I linked the null object to the camera and using the position sliders to zoom the camera in and out on the text as explained in the tutorial, nothing happens, no zooming in out, it looks like the camera is doing something, but no movement in objects. Looking at the tutorial everything seems to match up the same, but no movement. Any ideas.
( )Aleksandar Basara February 2nd
AWESOME!
( )Steeve February 2nd
I just want to know how I can set my AE settings for having an audio render in real time. I want the sound plays when I browse in the timeline like in the tutorial.
Thx
( )GJ February 2nd
YOU ROOOOOOOOOOCK
( )shawn February 4th
Great effect one of the best tuts i’ve seen. Please send in more!!!!
( )mikeoley February 8th
“Question though: when zooming into text, the text starts to pixelate. I read somewhere that text is treated almost like vectors and that text layers are continuously rasterized so it shouldn’t lose quality.”
Make sure to have your DRAFT 3D button on. It’s right about the ADJUSTMENT LAYERS toggle switch.
( )Jonathan February 8th
@Steeve
I don’t know if there is an easier way to do it, but you can hold the command key when scrubbing through
( )tangy February 9th
Posted by jrbamberg:
“I couldn’t get the null object part to work. I linked the null object to the camera and using the position sliders to zoom the camera in and out on the text as explained in the tutorial, nothing happens, no zooming in out, it looks like the camera is doing something, but no movement in objects. Looking at the tutorial everything seems to match up the same, but no movement. Any ideas.”
I’m having the same problem. Obviously missing something here. Anyone?
( )manS February 9th
Here is my attempt: http://vimeo.com/3131030
I create it in ‘tamil’ laguange typograhy… because I love that music…
TQ aetuts for the tutorial….
( )I will continue learning you every day tutorial…
bye…
Webster February 9th
Can someone who’s gotten the camera parented with the null object to work explain what they did? As a few other posters on the site had mentioned, It doesn’t work for me, and I’ve gone over it quite a few times. I’ve made sure its a 3d layer, but still nothing.
( )VeNaH November 4th
You must make sure all layers are 3D, not only the null object one
It will work then, just check the boxex with a cube in them!
Thanks for the tutorial by the way!
( )Jontte February 10th
Great tutorial! Thanks.
http://www.vimeo.com/3078853
( )Rye11guy February 13th
Great tutorial, but I was curious how you made the HANG and GET swing from the top like that,
if anyone has an answer that would be awesome!
( )Thanks
wat February 13th
Parenting camera to null object makes it so that the null object is the center of the camera.. so like.. the camera revolves around it.
( )Rye11guy February 14th
Thats not what I mean, those two words in the animation swing like a hanging sign in the wind. I was wondering how you do that, get that natural look.
( )Rye11guy February 14th
wait you were answering the question above me my bad
( )tangy February 14th
For the guys who are having trouble with parenting, check that you have set all your text to 3D inside every composition!
I made this very simple mistake, but luckily the man himself was able to diagnose the problem!
( )Bob C February 14th
Having an issue with the 3D camera – simply can’t get it to work. It’s parented to a null and all my layers are 3D. What am I missing?
I see I’m not the only one with this problem… Plz help!
( )Bob C February 14th
Ah! Never mind, I figured it out – and this might help others who are having this problem – make sure your view is set to “Active Camera” in the drop down underneath the comp. I had mine set to “Front” for some reason. When I changed it, it all worked!
( )josh February 16th
Hey, the camera isn’t working me either, but i have “Active Camera” sellected below the preview window
Right after I parent the camera to null, then I tryed to chaneg null position it doesnt do anything, I can see a 4 point square mask thingy moving in the background, but it doesn’t move the footage
( )Zack February 19th
WOW. This sort of stuff makes me want to take an After Effects course at my school REALLY BAD! I’m looking forward to learning this program.
( )Cratin! February 20th
Here is my try!
http://vimeo.com/3301315
( )Juan Francisco February 22nd
One of the greatest tutorials I’ve ever seen. Thanks!
( )roel February 23rd
why do you also have to animate the mask path? can’t you just set the mask and animate only the position of the word ‘time’?
( )wilfredp February 23rd
i cant keep whatching the video..it stops right on the 2:12 seconds…WHY??!!……..HELP PLEASEE!!
( )VortiiX February 24th
Thanks for tut!
( )Jacques February 28th
simply great, thx for sharing this
( )Oren February 28th
Thanks!
( )Great tutorial and really inspiring.
Tony March 1st
how come when i import the song into after effects
( )it goes all fast forward?
justin March 2nd
super prittie!!! a otro nivel man. quiero aprenderlo. from Panama city!!!
( )Tony March 2nd
when i click ram play how come its fast forward music
( )doug March 10th
hi, my name is douglas and i am brazilian.
( )Thanks for tutorial
NickTorres March 11th
Thank You so much!!! I have been looking for a good typography tutorial for so long!!!
( )Gabriel March 11th
I love it !
Thank you !
( )guilhermexot March 12th
when i zoom into the text it gets all noisy, am i doing something wrong?
( )manS March 14th
Here is my socond attempt: http://vimeo.com/3639037
1st version is more in 2D environment
And this is 2nd version which is 3D environmet…
Hope Anybody there comment video, let me improve my skill on editing motion graphics… TQ..
TQ Aetuts for the tutorials….
( )Owen March 17th
Appreciate this!
( )julito luengo March 18th
Simple animation. But simply… Impresive result.
The only thing I can´t get in my computer is listening to the audio file just by scrolling the player while pressins ctrl key.
I checked CS4 audio preferences, and nothing seemed to be wrong with the setup
Can anybody help?
Thanks
( )udon March 20th
excelente … thank you
( )VIJAY INDIA March 23rd
GREAT I WAS SEARCHING IT FOE A LONG TIME THANX A LOT
( )Typoder March 27th
hi, im having a problem where after i put the camera parented with the null object i try to move it or make a zoom like you did on the video but nothing happens… im desperated, plz some1 tell me how can i use the camera properly!!!
( )joel April 24th
im having the same problem…
( )wyeko March 27th
woooow. amazing
( )KitKat April 7th
Hello.
First i apologize about my english.
Second thing… I’m trying to make this tutorial but when i import an mp3 or a wav or any audio file i dont here anything.
I saw that you move the slider and u can here the track and that way move th words but for me is impossible.
Can some help me please?
And sorry again about my english
( )pat April 11th
if you’re using mac, you slide it while holding on to the command(apple) button…
windows, should be ctrl
( )John April 9th
thank you very much
( )totaly awesome ^^
Mike April 13th
Impresive.
Ive been practice but i have problem with the sound… theres no sound
( )joel April 20th
thanks for the tut. but im not sure about alot of the shortcuts u used. some help with that would be nice.
( )Joel G April 23rd
Utmärkt!
Nice to see some good stuff coming from a fellow countryman.
Saw your blogg too. Awsome stuff!
No critique here, cause Im uncertain…BuT:-)
I would like too see the text coming in maybe a frame or so in advance before the music in some places.
The brain recceive sounds faster then pictures. Its more noticable when several short notes are played in a sequence.
I could be totaly wrong here though.. Everything is moving very fast.
Best Regards!
( )xpronova April 28th
I’ve the same problem.
What should i do?
My video is ready, but i can’t export it right
( )Max L. April 23rd
Great tutorial, thanks for providing it with us.
Here is my sample to the 2nd verse of the song.
( )HD – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5MGjKB0SL0
Max L. April 23rd
us with it* haha
( )joel April 24th
whenever i use try to use the null object to use my camera i cant get the camera to move at all. do u think im doing something wrong?
( )Miguel Angel April 25th
Excellent tutorial.I was so inspired that I made a test that you can check on
( )mediapaslife@blogspot.com , in a work dedicated to Susan Boyle.I did not use any camera ,just the basics.Hope you like it.Thank you very much.
James Fleeting May 3rd
Great tutorial. Just picking up After Effects and this was perfect for learning basic animation and some camera controls.
( )some guy who need help in AE May 4th
i zoom using the scroll bar, or even the camera teh text always gets pixelated, i need urgent help regarding this…….thank u
( )dk May 4th
Good work my friend!
( )Jack May 4th
I’ve had the same problem with the text pixellating when i zoom in using the camera. Any ideas what i’m doing wrong?
Cheers.
( )Jack May 4th
aah, i’ve sorted it myself, I wasn’t using a 35mm camera to zoom with, i was using 50mm. Once I’d changed this there was no pixelation
( )some guy who still needs help May 5th
the change of camera, made it look better, but not perfect, i tried various camera…..i’m am really looking for a solution……
( )Pulkit Gera May 6th
Hi!
Thank you very much!
Here’s mine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYu1c7fMEFY
This really helped!
( )some guy who still needs help May 7th
some1 please help me with the pixalation issue
( )amal May 13th
awsome…
( )<3 love it …
keep going…
Jacob May 17th
Dude you’re the man, always wanted to do this!
( )Raph May 20th
Hey, awesome tutorial !
( )I still have a problem : when i move with a camera in my composition, it takes only one element : for example, when i zoom on “here” (in the first sentance), the other words don’t stay near “here”, they are at the same place they were before i zoomed…
I hope it’s clear, and that someone will help !
Wouter May 22nd
I really love this tutorial.
But like many others I have the same problem with the zooming of the camera with the Null Object.
If anyone has a solutions please share it cause I want to continue this beautiful tutorial.
( )Wouter May 22nd
NVM I found the solutuion.
It has to do with the 3D layer. With my project I have several pre-composed sections. You set the pre-composed as a 3D-layer but the text-layers inside that pre-composed section are not 3D.
What you need to do is go to your pro-composed part, and set 3D-layer for every layer in that composition.
The camera will zoom with the Null Object.
Good Luck.
For question mail me at wtrbuit [at] gmail.com
( )Gabriel May 28th
this was amazing
( )i made about ten seconds of it
http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=FD31bYEZaEs
Lee May 30th
Hey! I like this tutorial, but when I go into animating it and make teh camera go 90 degrees, it messes up my whole animation and makes it just go in random directions. Im using the null and everything. It wont transition smoothly into the next word, instead it goes of in a different direction. Help
( )Micheal June 1st
Thank you for the tutorial.
Im busy doing this tutorial and im now at the part where i have to animate the 2e compisition. When i try rotating the textbox, it rotates out of my work field. Can anyone help me with this?
( )Lee June 2nd
Exactly michael. Thats my problem as well.
( )Yvain June 15th
Muy Creativo y dinamico. OKs
( )Minako June 21st
I’m just a beginner (please, don’t hit me!
), but this gives me the spirit to keep on practising, testing, etc.
Thanks man…
( )Dog video June 22nd
thanks
( )Bartek June 25th
Can someone help me? Whats going on that if im starting with camera on the word ‘here’ and im setting z position and keyframes and later when im going to the next word ‘we’- it is not on the right position (on the right side of the ‘here’ word) but above it?
( )E June 30th
when i add the camera and the knoll object it does not affect my text when i change the settting. The camera box is getting bigger but not the actual text. What am i doing wrong? suggestions would be appreciated.
( )Adrien Trinh June 30th
How to I preview the Audio and Video?
( )When I press Space or the Play button it previews the Text only without sound.
Serkan July 4th
its awesome !. Thank you.
( )piskodrocho July 9th
I want to listen good music!
( )Marcos Silva July 9th
hey, i made my motion typografy
check in
( )http://www.vimeo.com/5532068
and some critics are always welcome
Fernando July 16th
realy nice, tks man
( )pareboy July 20th
woooow tanks..very good
( )juan July 26th
very good, more thanks
( )Mike July 26th
Would be a lot better if it wasn’t so fast.
( )Michele July 29th
for swinging effect to “hang” how can we do? do not be tutorials in half, please!
sorry for english…
( )iamthe202 July 29th
Thank you!
( )scizzbo August 3rd
Based on that last post I’m going to agree completely.
Got to go for now.
Cheers
Scizzbo
( )tutorialslounge August 3rd
appreciated work.
( )Serkan Gurkan August 6th
Thank you again, i made my motion typografy check in..
http://www.vimeo.com/5907778
( )Kiliankoe August 27th
Oh I thank you. With all my tries to create some working typography videos something always went wrong. I hope to pick up a few working techniques here. Thanks!
( )poorfarm September 5th
Looks like a good forum for whats going on.
Be back soon
poorfarm
( )Clothing September 12th
Wow! Its imposible… I’m realy shocked :/
( )sqillas September 16th
Thank you!!!
( )RizNisteSet September 16th
list more!
( )Ashley Adams : Postcard Printing September 21st
What an amazing video tutorial!! I am really going to try this one……..in fact I was actually planning to try out motion typography……..though I’m not at all good with AE. Hope it works. Keep posting.
( )mike September 27th
how to do 1:47 timeline ?? he used shortcuts..
( )Hamza September 28th
Thank you so very much for the amazing tutorial and thanks for that download button as well, aetuts!
( )Usman September 28th
hey….i’m curious, what font did you use in this tutorial…please let me know….:)
( )partlyhere October 1st
i just wanted to chime in and say nice design.
( )Ruben Sainiuc October 3rd
thanks for the tutorial – here’s what it inspired me – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAqTjtFMqvA&fmt=18 – hope you like it
( )Kennedy October 5th
I now know how other people feel when they say to me “wow, how do you make it looks so easy”
( )Adolfo November 1st
Thanks men for this great tutorial, you show us how simple and fun is make this kind of video. Congrats!! and please make new tutorials please!!!
( )Neil November 12th
my brain just exploded
( )Igor Matos November 17th
Hey, perfect tutorial, but i have a problem to sync the music with the text, because my after effects isnt loading the part of the music when i play with the marker, like you do at 1:12 .
Thx for the tutorial.
( )Igor Matos November 19th
Looking on the comments i already found the answer for my question, i just need to press ctrl to preview audio in real time.
( )ADRIANA November 27th
IMPORTANT QUESTION!
1:49 – you selected multiple frames to preview..
What shortcut did you use for this???????
:C i dont want to have to listen to the whole song every time i want to go back and see a certain section what i’ve animated!!
( )Ryan Bollenbach November 28th
Really awesome tutorial! These simple concepts will prove me well
.
Thanks!
( )Ellis December 2nd
This one really deserves in top of the google search!!!
Thanks a lot!!
( )Mart December 3rd
Hi markus!
Just one question how can i specify my preview like you did? because when i hit ram preview, it’s from start to end. and when i checked “From current time”, it plays from current time till end. How to preview only the desired part in the timeline?
Thanks a lot!
*Sorry for my bad english..
( )Stevo December 8th
yeah how do you do it????? I don’t know what settings to use. I mean how do you preview the audio and the animation without ram preview? I’m totally stuck >_<
( )adib December 20th
in your video tutorial from 1:46-1:49. How did u drag the marker in the time ruler so fast?
( )Samuel Vun December 26th
Thanks for your tutorial. Could I ask how to add the background for the video?
( )Carl January 4th
I was trying this using a harder way. Damn glad I decided to come check on AETuts +. This is way easier. Now maybe I can get it done
( )theRevoluccion January 17th
i had the same problem with the scaling and zooming it, but i figured it out!
for those with the same problem, u do need to have pre-comp and of course the layers in the pre-comp to 3d but also make sure to have the “continuously rasterize” switch which is next to the near the fx switch
do it on both the comp and inside the pre-comp
should work
awesome job by the way! love it!
( )Alexander Gomez January 18th
SEE THATS WHAT I CALL A FRIEND!!! VERY NICE , SIMPLE BUT GOOD!, I WAS LOOKING FOR THIS TUTORIAL LONG TIME AGO BUT NEVER GOT TO THIS SITE, STUPID ME. MAN THIS IS AWESOME , I TRIED TO DO THIS BUT SOMETHING WAS NOT WORKING WELL..THANKS!
( )Nathan January 22nd
How do you compose? You have them selected and how do you group them?
( )Emanuele January 26th
very cool tutorial thank you so much
( )Tom January 29th
Hey that’s awesome, thanks, but there’s something I don’t get: what is that short cut do you use on the null object to have the “position” appear? I can’t find it through the menus…
( )Jim February 1st
How do you put text quickly? I have to keep switching between text tool and pointer tool
( )boby_29 February 4th
Very nice tut!
( )I havent ever used AE and my first try in AE will be with your tutorial.
Jason Fonceca February 5th
omg. Behold all the comments… this Tut has generated a massive response, I love it.
Also, it is doing so much good for the world, helping a trendy art-form reach more people. I know I for one have been on the lookout for a tut like this for quite some time, and this was the most straightforward and easy to understand one for me.
Rock on Markus, thanks so much!
( )vk February 7th
THanks for this tutorial…:)
( )