TEXT AND STORYTELLING

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One powerful weapon that can always help you create new visual elements to make a project more dynamic and interesting is text. Employed in the right way, text itself can become a fresh new visual that helps communicate tone, subject, and message in a clear, concise, and entertaining way. When animated with fly-ins, flips, dissolves, etc., mere words on the screen can be brought to life to help tell your story and keep it moving.

Simple animated text and title FX are readily available in just about every nonlinear editor. Even the more consumer-oriented editing programs like iMovie have some cool drag-and-drop title FX already ...

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