Animating Text with Cascading Keyframes

Cascading keyframes simplify animation by allowing you to animate a character, word, or line of text and then apply those keyframe settings to sibling items in the text block.

For this example, let's create a text block that says "This is sample text" and have each word drop in from the top of the frame.

  1. Add the ProType Titler to a track.

  2. Double-click the workspace to add a text block.

  3. Type "This is sample text."

  4. Press Esc to exit text-edit mode.

  1. Drag the text block so it's above the video frame.

  2. With the text block selected, click Navigate to Child to select the word "This."

  3. Click the Transform tab in the Text Block Properties pane.

  4. Select the Toggle Automation button next to the Y Offset control.

  5. In the automation controller/timeline, click to position the cursor near the 3-second mark.

  6. Drag the Y Offset slider (or drag the selected word "This" in the workspace) to move the word into the frame. A keyframe is created.

  7. In the automation controller/timeline, select the Toggle Cascade button in the keyframe row "Word: This".

  8. You can use the preview toolbar to preview your animated text.