Text animation

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Text animation

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1 Add effects and animation to text

Text effects

Edit text animation

Under Animation, you can select an effect for the text to show or hide. If you  click theTfx Adjust icon next to the Animation selection, you can customize each effect.

If an existing text animation is modified, it appears with an asterisk after its name.

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You can also get the text animation editing window by right-clicking on an image in the Timeline and using Select text animation.

In the menu for editing the text effect you will see, in addition to the adjustment options, a preview of the selected animation. In addition, you can  choose not only a Fade-in for the text, but also a Fade-out , via the corresponding tab. This can be controlled in just as much detail as the fade-in. To do this, select the Zoomer option in the upper field.

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Edit text animation with preview

2 Text effects from the toolbox

Drag text effect onto image in Timeline or Layout designer

Drag text effect onto image in Timeline or Layout designer

It is not only from the Properties window that you can select a Text effect. In the Toolbox you can call the same Text effects as under Properties.

Drag the desired Text effect from the Toolbox onto the image.

If you want to use the same Text effect for all images, select all images by pressing the keys  Ctrl  +  A . Now double-click on the desired Text effect.
If the same Text effect is to be used for several images together, then hold down  Ctrl  and click the mouse on the images to which the Text effect is to be applied. Once the images are selected, double-click the desired Text effect in this case as well.

To remove a Text effect, first select the object in question in the Timeline. Then double-click the Remove text effect icon at the very top of the Toolbox.

3 Control duration of text insertion via keyframe

Keyframe Text

Keyframe track for text animation

In Stages you can also  control the duration of the Fade-in or Fade-out of the text via the Keyframe track. To do this, open the keyframe track and click in the track for the text animation.
Here there is a keyframe for fade in and fade out (if activated), with which you can control the end of the fade in or the beginning of the fade out.

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How to underline text is shown in our blog article "Text unterstreichen".