Create AMAZING Lyric Videos in After Effects with typography!

I'm going to show you how to create a lyric video using typography animation in After Effects. The technique I'm going to show you will enable you to create a few different animations and then reuse them using the essential graphics feature. This will allow you to create a bespoke look while saving you a bunch of time. The song I'll be using is a royalty-free track and I'll post a link to it down below. You can either follow along using that track or just adapt the lesson to your own lyrics. So, let's get started. [music] We are going to be recreating four of the animations you saw in the intro. The project files are available in the description for free. If you're feeling lazy and just want to download the full pack of 20 animations readymade, you can get them as well for a small price. Otherwise, you can follow along on this tutorial and we can work through it together. So, the first thing we want to do is create a solid for the background. So, let's press layer, new solid, and make sure that the hex code is dark gray, like 181818. And let's call this BG for background. Let's lock this layer. Now, let's create a text element by using the type tool. And I'm going to type motion, but you can type in whatever you want. And I'm going to use the align tab to center this element. I'm going to use the paragraph tab to choose center text. And I'm going to hold control and double click the pan behind tool to center the anchor point at the center of the text layer. Now I'm going to scale this layer up a little bit. You can use any font you want, but I am currently using Barlow condensed extra bold. And I'm going to make sure there's a white fill and zero border. You should make sure that the composition duration is set to 1 second. This is going to be quite a quick animation. Now I want you to select this middle text layer and press Ctrl D twice to create two duplicates. I want you to move one slightly below and one slightly above. Let's rename this bottom one text inner bottom. And let's rename this one to text upper bottom. And let's give these layers a different color by selecting both of them and choosing a layer color just to keep everything neat and tidy.