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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 :)
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!
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.
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.
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
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 ?)
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
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! ;)
"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
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!
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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 ... 👍
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 UA-cam tutorials, try searching, 'after effects expressions tutorial'
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??
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?
This video could honestly have been covered in 20 minutes had you cut down on all talking. Loved the video, helped me a lot, but could've been much shorter.
Tutorial starts at 9:09
thanks!
on! very very thanks I was very curious when it would start.
lmao thanks!
Thanks!
Thanks
Anyone who has the time to watch and follow along will benefit greatly from this tutorial. Great work Caleb.
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.
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.
This tutorial took me HOURS, but i was starting out with next to no previous experience. This was really helpful and enjoyable!
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."
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
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.
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.
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!
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.
been broken a long time ago, not just for people trying to learn kinetic typography
It's always been broken..
Point blank... Period!
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.
i wonder how far youve taken it today. Am just starting out as we speak
This is exactly what I’ve been looking for - thank you!!
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
Very happy to hear I could help! I agree, parenting the null object is a great technique. Thank you for the kind words.
Excellent Tutorial!! In-depth, step by step, easy to follow.
the more i pay attention the better i understand,this video actually helped me out.
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.
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.
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.
Awesome tutorial! Very in-depth and clear to understand. Thanks!
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.
This tutorial was very helpful, also love the subtle logic instrumental in the background.
MEHMET ÜRGÜP ADAMIN SON İKİ HARFİ
Lol got lost 30 minutes into the tutorial but figured out a ton of cool stuff. Great tutorial none the less, thanks for sharing.
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.
Thorough as heck!
thanks a lot i dont know why your video didn't came before.thanks bro.really
Thank you for your tutorial and expression text! It means a lot for me
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 :)
Incredible opening
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!
I also can't get that bow in graph editor, eventhough my keypoints are ease
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.
thank you. i can say with confidence this works
Thank you so much for your videos, a great help for us who are new to after effects! :)
Thanks! I'm getting started with kinetic typography. There's lots of inspiration here :-)
cool! I spent the day on this tutorial! I'll be a master of kinetic typography thanks to you)
Thanks for sharing this. It was exactly what I was looking for
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.
You are correct! After rewatching this video I noticed that I added the space without realizing it, figured that was the case.
Awesome video, really helped me understand the basics!!
This video was so helpful! thanks man :)
thanks man this thing worked thanks a lot man love lots keepsafe!!!
I can't thank you enough for this. Thanks
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
This tutorial was just amazing it helped me so much with my animation ♥♥♥! Can't thank you enough! Really love your voice too :D.
That intro!!! love it
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 ?)
This really helped thanks a lot!
good thankyou so much i need this tutorial for my exam. verry thanks
More video about typographic on after effect please, thanks so much
It was a bit loooong, an hour vid... but it was helpful thank you Caleb Lancaster!
Is there a more recent after effects tutorial on kinetic typography?
video super bien explicado muchas gracias bro...
i owe you my life
Thanks bro, you're my hero
You’re a GOD.
So useful, thank you.
right click on a layer/ transform/center in view is the best way to center objects.
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
100% working.....Thanks very much
Muchas gracias!El mejor!
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! ;)
thank you for this video! will you be doing any more?
"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
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!
great tutorial! Thank you!
thx my brother its realy works
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
great job man , I was just wondering if the song you used is copyrighted
Thank you for enlightening us c:
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.
Great explanation
OML great tutorial, but could you please give the link to download motion2 pls?
www.mtmograph.com/mt-mo-motion-2/motion-v2
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!
Thank you so much for this....
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.
it's not just 5 letters, it didn't work with 7 because you used spacebar so it was theoretically 8
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.
I didn't know i could still laugh watching a tutorial. hahahhaha....this is entertaining and helpful at the same time! Thanks !
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.
54.00 (track a) there is a space so total 6 letters not uneven to work properly
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 ... 👍
THAT CAT THO😂😂😂😂
thank you for this great tutorial, it really, really helped me!
Thank u it worked.
How do you get that panel you worked on the text with like that? Is it a different workspace?
Thx for this, you added a space and an A on Tracks A making it even ;)
Listen to this long enough, you kinda begin to sound like the lead guy from Altered Carbon
@18:32 I don't have a loop... why? I have only a half loop... thank you so much for this great tuto!!!!!!
I love this
Very good! but honestly the video could've been shorter... Most of the time I already knew most of the things you told me
Awesome Tutorial, man. Say Hi to your cat from me
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.
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 UA-cam tutorials, try searching, 'after effects expressions tutorial'
Nice Video Sir
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??
Good job man
Thanks!
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?
Kyle Fairchild you sure can!
Incredible dude, do you take requests? I will pay. I only need a 16 second one..
Contact caleblancaster@live.com with more information on what you need done
Can we do Typography in notebook 🤔
This video could honestly have been covered in 20 minutes had you cut down on all talking. Loved the video, helped me a lot, but could've been much shorter.
Why you not use a camera?
AB MotoVlog I personally feel like null objects are easier to control
Thank you so much for that null object tip. It made my project that much easier.
great video thks
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...