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.

Caption and Text in Alight Motion

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.

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!

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Text Effects in Alight Motion

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

Text Animation Presets
Text Appearance customization
Text Transformations
Text Effects
Blend & Opacity
Text Following Paths
Masking & Clipping
Advanced Keyframing
Time & Speed Controls

How to Add Text in Alight Motion (Guide)

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

Open Alight Motion
Find the Add New “+” icon on the interface of the app.
Hit this button and start a new project.
Now make sure you select that resolution in which you want to create the project.

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

Step 2: Import Media

Now, you have to import the media from your device to start editing.
Click on the “Media” button to import the media into the app.
Add a title to the media after importing it.

Step 3: Add Text layer

click on the “Text” option available at the bottom menu and after that click “Add Text”
This will automatically add a new text layer to your project.

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;

Look for “Font Menu” on the app interface, click it, a dropdown will be shown, select “View all Fonts” and then choose the font style which you want to use in your project.

Step 5: Type Your Text

Click on the text layer of the project you just added
Write your desired text in that layer box.
if you want to add multiple text layers then you can add multiple layers also.

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.

How to Animate Text in Alight Motion?

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

Tap on “Colour & Fill” options from text layer properties.
To remove any background colour, select “No Fill” from the pop-up.
Go back and Tap on “Border & Shadow” to enable the border line of any color of your desire.

Step 2: Increase the Text Layer Duration

Increase the text layer duration to make sure that the text will not be turned off before the animation is completed.
Extend your text layer from 4.5% to 5.5% from its original duration.
you’ll be able to apply keyframes and other effects with long duration of the text layer.

Step 3: Duplicate the Text Layer

Now duplicate the prepared text layer and save the original for future use in other projects.

Now start styling by using Mask via the Shape layer.

Adjust the opacity & Gradient for a smooth transition

You can add additional effects if you like blink.

YouTube Tutorial for Alight Motion Text Transform

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

Pros & Cons of Adding Text in Alight Motion

PROS	CONS
Highly Customizable	Lag on low-end devices
Can Import Variety of Font Styles	Free version has a lot of ads
Built-in Effects	Watermark is present in free version
Text Animation

FAQs

You can easily change or update the font colour by using colour palette or colour picker in Alight Motion.

Yes! We can easily use text designs as templates by clicking on “Save as Template” after making a new text layer design.

Closing Thoughts

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.

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