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Animating a title

Animating a title - HitFilm Express Tutorial

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Animating a title

- [Instructor] Now that we know how to animate and use keyframes, it's time to apply that knowledge to the title we made a couple of videos back. Open up the project you saved at the end of the Creating Simple Text video so that you can pick up from where you left off. So here we have the static title. Let's make it a bit more fun by having the donut roll in from the right, revealing the title as it goes. First, we'll work on the donut itself. I'm gonna create a new composite shot in which to do the animation. To do this, first select the donut layer, then click this make composite shot button. A window will pop up with some options. Change the title to something recognizable, such as animated donut. I want the new composite shot to inherit the 1080p timeline dimensions, so I'll switch this to current timeline. If I'd left it on selected layer, it would instead have been made to the square shape of the donut composite shot. I want the donut's position and size to be carried through as…

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