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  1. Im trying to achieve an RPG dialog style box for a video. I have a video file which contains the box with a nice animation that appears and dissapears. Now I just need to put the text on top, appearing on the classic RPG fashion, example:



    How could I make the text appear typewrited like that? I only own Camtasia, I don't have enough money to afford After Effects or Vegas. Do I really need these to create this simple effect?

    Oh btw, when I mean transparent, I dont mean that the box has to be transparent, I mean that I just want the white letters appearing under a transparent background, I don't know if you get what I mean. For example, take this:

    http://wigflip.com/minifesto/

    If I could get this but instead of a black background, transparent so I can add it on top of my dialogue box on my video, I would speed it up a bit and that would be it. It's a pretty shitty workaround tho, because when you scale it it gets a bit blurry since the original size is so small.

    Anyway, what ideas you have to do what i need? thanks.
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  2. Those aren't "real" typewritter effects in the YT video, because whole words - or several - are revealed at once. But I get the general idea of what you're trying to do

    It's possible with free software like AVIUTL, using a mask reveal; or another approach is to use subtitles e.g. aegisub . Just google "aegisub typewritter effect" there should be many tutorials
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    Aviutl can do that typewriter text effect and it is a free video/effects editor.
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  4. Originally Posted by racer-x View Post
    Aviutl can do that typewriter text effect and it is a free video/effects editor.
    hi, can you explain how is it done? I cant find the option to do it.
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    Originally Posted by rocco123 View Post
    Originally Posted by racer-x View Post
    Aviutl can do that typewriter text effect and it is a free video/effects editor.
    hi, can you explain how is it done? I cant find the option to do it.
    Watch my 1st tutorial on basic editing. https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/360967-AviUtl-video-tutorial?p=2288628#post2288628

    Basically you just need to adjust "vDisplay" in the text properties. You can set the speed you want.
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  6. Thanks, will try later.
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  8. Originally Posted by racer-x View Post
    Originally Posted by rocco123 View Post
    Originally Posted by racer-x View Post
    Aviutl can do that typewriter text effect and it is a free video/effects editor.
    hi, can you explain how is it done? I cant find the option to do it.
    Watch my 1st tutorial on basic editing. https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/360967-AviUtl-video-tutorial?p=2288628#post2288628

    Basically you just need to adjust "vDisplay" in the text properties. You can set the speed you want.
    I got it working nicely. But, i've noticed on the letters Aviutl is somewhat making everything seem a bit smooth and it isn't as sharp looking as in camtasia for some reason. Why is this? I have no filters applied afaik.
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  9. Originally Posted by rocco123 View Post
    Originally Posted by racer-x View Post
    Originally Posted by rocco123 View Post
    Originally Posted by racer-x View Post
    Aviutl can do that typewriter text effect and it is a free video/effects editor.
    hi, can you explain how is it done? I cant find the option to do it.
    Watch my 1st tutorial on basic editing. https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/360967-AviUtl-video-tutorial?p=2288628#post2288628

    Basically you just need to adjust "vDisplay" in the text properties. You can set the speed you want.
    I got it working nicely. But, i've noticed on the letters Aviutl is somewhat making everything seem a bit smooth and it isn't as sharp looking as in camtasia for some reason. Why is this? I have no filters applied afaik.
    Does this refer to white text on black backgound (or vice versa) ? or colored ?

    If you refer to colored text, then it's probably because of chroma subsampling 4:2:0 . You would need to encode in RGB, or YUV444
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chroma_subsampling
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  10. It is possible with AviUtl to make "(chuncky) typewriter" effect without mask.
    The key is using the inline tags like
    <w0.1> :wait 0.1s
    <w*0.1> : wait for (no. of char*0.1)s
    <c0.1> : clear text after 0.1s

    The smoothing, or anti-alias, can be switched off in the [Detail] button at the right edge of the Text Object dialog box.

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