BEGINNER'S Kinetic Typography - After Effects Tutorial

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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[miyurinorris]

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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[brankolojanicic]

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

[mehmetkisacikoglu]

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

[zakiynur]

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

[reecesmith]

Awesome video, really helped me understand the basics!!

[GLO-Brasil]

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

[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!

[travispryd]

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! ;)

[johnnyfrago]

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.

[phillipbaek]

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

[samarthgupta]

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??

[BusinessAnalystGuru]

what mic are you using to create this video?

[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)

[charliewhitley]

What program is being used to make this

[romanowski.m]

Thanks, but at the end you tried to explenate everything too fast

[suef]

Thanks for making the tutorial, but in the future please recommend all the filler out. It was super distracting to keep hearing about your cat when trying to learn. =(

[dmathesonfvg]

"Kinetype" pronounced " Kin' -eh-tiyp"