How to add & Animate Text in Alight Motion – User Guide

Are you a newbie Alight Motion user and struggling to increase clarity in your projects by adding and animating texts? We provide detailed step-by-step tutorials for new users. Alight Motion is a very easy to use application but sometimes users struggle to use some specific features of the application and We understand that, and provides solutions for those problems. Follow this step by step tutorial to become a pro of adding and animating text in Alight Motion Projects.

Alight Motion has two great industry standard features which are Caption and Text. Caption is the display of text at the bottom of the video to understand what a person in the video is saying when the volume is mute.

Caption Vs Text and when to use which one is an important part. In Alight Motion Captions are used for spoken dialogues or subtitles and are placed at the bottom of the video. On the other hand text layers are completely customizable designs which can be used for titles, headings and creative effects anywhere on the screen. Now you’ll be able to decide which one to use as you know the main difference between both of these.

Before Learning about Text addition you must know about Alight Motion Transitions. Adding text is a feature which can increase the overall  visibility and understanding of your video project, which can be used behind the video character or anywhere the user wants!

There is a variety of text effect features introduced by Alight Motion to its users including;

Alight Motion is user friendly app, if you have doubt in using “Add text” feature of this application, Use this step-by-step tutorial;

Step 1:Start New Project

Now click the blank project template to start editing your project.

Step 2: Import Media

Step 3: Add Text layer

Step 4: Select your Favourite Font & Style

This feature allows you to use your desired font from the library of many fonts to select your favourite font;

 Step 5: Type Your Text

 Step 6: Adjust Text Settings

Make the necessary adjustments like, size, colour, font & Alignment of your desire.

You can also add shadows and effects to increase the overall creativity of your video.

Alight Motion also offers to animate the added text. Use the following tutorial to animate the added text in a new project;

 Step 1: Customize Text Appearance

 Step 2: Increase the Text Layer Duration

 Step 3: Duplicate the Text Layer

Beginners overuse effects and apply too many keyframes. Another mistake they do is animating the text too fast which makes videos hard to read for the viewers. You should always keep the animation smooth and readable which is aligned with the video’s overall mood. Use simple motion with perfect time to give a more professional look to your video project.

If you still need practical demonstration of how to use text transform in Alight Motion than here is a YouTube tutorial,

If you have a low end device and you use that device to edit videos using Alight Motion than during the text animation creation, you should avoid the stacking of multiple animated text layers at once. For better results you should reduce shadows and lower preview resolution while animating one layer at a time. This will help you so much as your device will not lag and you’ll enjoy a smooth editing session.

Adding text features of Motion helps its users to produce professional grade & stunning videos using different text designs. This guide will help you achieve the professional video editing goals using Alight Motion Texts and Text Animation features. You can produce very rare and engaging content by using and adding text effects in your videos.