ID | Kinetic Typography

11 January 2022 - 21 January 2022 | Week 2 - Week 3

GCD 95604 | Information Design

 Lecture  

Tue | 11 January 2022 

Kinetic typography animation in AE is all about pace and rhythm.

 

 In AE, we need 2 keyframes.

🔑How to add keyframe (⬥)? Click the stopwatch.

🔑How to improve pace? (start slow and then a little faster to reach the peak and slow down)

1. Select the two keyframes (Click & drag selection squares to include them // Shift & click them)
2. Right-click → Keyframe assistor → Easy Ease/F9

**Instead of just F9, use Fn+F9

🔑How to add 2 keyframes for the second animation property? Work backwards. 

Step 1: Do the ending keyframe first.

Step 2: Click the first animation property's left arrow.

Step 3: While changing the data, the keyframe (⬥) will be automatically added.

🔑Keyframing for more than 1 animation property:
Range selector → Start 100% → 0% → Easy Ease/F9

🔑Reset anchor point:

Step 1: Select your layer. (From the above screenshot, you can see that the layer is selected)

Step 2: Pan behind → Click Ctrl & move the anchor point.

 Individual task 

Challenges encountered:  

1. How to fix "out of memory" error in AE? 

• Use quarter resolution
• Ctrl+Alt+Shift+K (OR File → Project Settings) → use GPU
• Edit → Preferences
• Previews → Adaptive resolution limit → 1/16 (lowest)
• Media & Disk Cache 
• Empty Disk Cache
• Clean Database & Cache

2. How to export as MP4 .mov in AE?

• Ctrl+M (OR Composition → Add to render queue)
• In the Render Queue window, change Output Mode's "Lossless" by clicking it.
• In Format, choose Quicktime.
• In Video Output set channels to RGB for regular video.

Wed | 12 January 2022

Final version for kinetic typography exercise 1 - text animation

Tue | 20 January 2022 

Overall Feedback for all groups' kinetic typography song lyric project:

• Switch on title safe
• Play with colours - background & text

Final my part in group project:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bF_00DShiR24UCJBICAf2Zt2rhro_iLr/view?usp=sharing

Final kinetic typography group project: