Going nuts trying to achieve a typewriting effect with a transparent bg

[rocco123]

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.

[poisondeathray]

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

[racer-x]

Aviutl can do that typewriter text effect and it is a free video/effects editor.

[rocco123]

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.

[racer-x]

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.

[rocco123]

Thanks, will try later.

[Cornucopia]

BluffTitler. Easy. Output can have alpha, too.

Scott

[rocco123]

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.

[poisondeathray]

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

[MaverickTse]

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.



This zip file is the AviUtl project file that generate the above GIF.