Text animation – Typewriter with underscore

Start a new empty movie. Click on size-button.

Set Dimensions to 450 px (width) x 80 px (height). Set Background Color to your own color.

Step by step

Select the text tool.

Place a sufficiently large enough word in the middle of the canvas.    (Arial ptn 42: Tim's Spider Awards) Give the text any color. Afterwards it’s still possible to change the text data in the properties     panel.

Type a word or sentence and count the letters (spaces not included).     In my example that would be 16 letters. (Tim's Spider Awards) Multiply the amount of letters by 2 and place an amount of keyframes     equal to that number. (so 10 letters means you have to have 20     keyframes on the timline). In the first keyframe place the first letter of the word and remove all     other letters. In the second keyframe you have the first letter and add an     underscore to it.

In the third keyframe you put only the first and the second letter. In the fourth you write the first 2 letters with an underscore added.     Continue to do so until you reached the final keyframe and have     the complete word with an underscore attached to it. Test your animation by using Control > Test Movie.

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