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Text presets for After Effects

42 text animations made with Flexile’s Text Animator, from a one-line fade to stacked keyframe groups. Point at a clip to play it, copy the preset, and paste it onto any text layer in the Flexile panel. Every clip is rendered in After Effects from exactly what the Copy button gives you.

Featured builds

Three-Line Build

Seven groups on one layer: the letters rise in, line one punches, line two swings, line three stretches and turns purple, a ripple runs through all three, and everything drops out.

7 groups · 5 s

How to paste a preset

You need Flexile in After Effects 2025 or newer. The installation guide takes a few minutes; Flexile is free during the beta.

  1. Copy a preset

    Copy preset puts the preset on your clipboard: a short block of JSON in the format the panel copies out itself.

  2. Paste it in the Text panel

    In After Effects, select one or more text layers. On Flexile’s Text page, click the options button at the bottom right, choose Paste from clipboard, paste into the field and click Save.

  3. Make it yours

    Every group lands on the layer as Flexile effects (Flexile Text IN, Flexile Position IN and so on). Change Time, Offset, the Power keyframes or any value in Effect Controls, or keep editing from the panel.

Essentials

One In and one Out. A few effects, a Time and an Offset: that is the whole recipe. Swipe for more.

Soft Rise

Letters drift up and fade in, then lift away. The everyday title.

  • In· Position, Opacity
  • Out· Position, Opacity

Pop Up

Each letter scales up from nothing with a springy overshoot.

  • In· Scale
  • Out· Scale

Typewriter

Characters appear one by one and get deleted from the end, like a backspace.

  • In· Opacity
  • Out· Opacity

Focus Pull

Blurred, oversized letters pull into focus from the middle out.

  • In· Scale, Opacity, Blur
  • Out· Opacity, Blur

Stamp

Oversized letters slam down one after another and settle with a kick.

  • In· Scale, Opacity
  • Out· Scale, Opacity

Cinematic Tracking

Wide-tracked letters close in slowly while they fade up. Trailer type.

  • In· Opacity, Blur, Tracking
  • Out· Opacity, Blur, Tracking

Slide Through

Text enters from the right and exits to the left, letter by letter.

  • In· Position, Opacity
  • Out· Position, Opacity

Spin Up

Letters twist in from a half turn and grow into place.

  • In· Scale, Rotation
  • Out· Scale, Rotation

Word by Word

Based On: Words. Each word rises in on its own beat.

  • In· Position, Opacity
  • Out· Opacity

Flow and structure

Letter Flow, Based On words or lines, per-character 3D and Line Spacing change who moves first and how. Swipe for more.

Decode

Character Offset scrambles each letter until it lands on the right one.

  • In· Opacity, Character Offset
  • Out· Opacity, Blur

Center Burst

Letter Flow: Center. Huge blurred letters snap in from the middle outwards.

  • In· Scale, Opacity, Blur
  • Out· Scale, Opacity

Close In

Letter Flow: Edges. The outer letters arrive first and the word closes on its centre.

  • In· Position, Opacity, Rotation
  • Out· Position, Opacity

Deep Space

Per-character 3D. Letters fly out of the camera and drift off into the distance.

  • In· Position, Opacity
  • Out· Position, Opacity

Gravity

Letters drop in and bounce on the baseline, then fall out of frame, accelerating.

  • In· Position, Opacity
  • Out· Position

Swipe

Skewed letters whip in from the left and out to the right.

  • In· Position, Opacity, Skew
  • Out· Position, Opacity, Skew

Line by Line

Based On: Lines. Each line of a paragraph slides up with a soft vertical blur.

  • In· Position, Opacity, Blur
  • Out· Opacity

Unfold

Flat letters spring open vertically, then pinch shut sideways.

  • In· Scale
  • Out· Scale

Line Stack

Line Spacing collapses the paragraph into one row, then it opens up line by line.

  • In· Opacity, Line Spacing
  • Out· Opacity, Position

What keyframe groups add

In animates every letter from the effect values to rest, starting at the layer’s in point. Out does the reverse and ends at the out point. Both are timed by Time, Offset and Letter Flow.

A keyframe group is a third kind, and a layer can have as many as you like, each with its own name and effects. Its Power slider says how much of those effects is applied: 100 is all of it, 0 none, and a negative value pushes the other way. You keyframe Power, and Offset replays that curve a few frames later on each letter, so one pulse becomes a wave that travels through the word.

That is how the next 21 presets put motion in the middle of a shot: hops, shakes, colour sweeps, loops, and exits of their own, mixed with an In and an Out on the same layer.

Ripple Jump, group JUMP: Position 0, −80

Power keyframes of the JUMP group in Ripple Jump, drawn for each letter of “Ripple”, each 3 frames later than the one before.050100Ripple
Diamonds: the Power keyframes on the first letter. Each next letter replays them 3 frames later.

Keyframe groups

A Power curve you keyframe, replayed letter by letter. Motion in the middle of the shot, not only at the ends. Swipe for more.

Wave

A keyframe group swings Power between +100 and −100; Offset carries the swing along the word.

  • In· Opacity, Position
  • WAVE· Position
  • Out· Opacity

Highlight Sweep

One short Power pulse with a fill colour and a little scale runs through the word.

  • In· Opacity
  • SWEEP· Scale, Fill Color
  • Out· Opacity

Jelly

A squash-and-stretch wobble keyed on Power, released from the centre letter.

  • In· Scale
  • JELLY· Scale
  • Out· Scale

Heartbeat

Anchor Point: All. The whole word thumps twice, lub-dub, on a keyed Power curve.

  • In· Opacity, Scale
  • BEAT· Scale
  • Out· Opacity

Impact Shake

The word slams in and a fast decaying Power keyframe run shakes it on landing.

  • In· Scale, Opacity
  • SHAKE· Position, Rotation
  • Out· Opacity, Blur

Ripple Jump

Every letter hops once, a few frames after its neighbour.

  • In· Opacity
  • JUMP· Position
  • Out· Opacity

Breathe

A slow keyframe group opens the tracking and closes it again, like a breath.

  • In· Opacity, Blur
  • BREATH· Tracking
  • Out· Opacity, Blur

Spotlight

Letters sit dimmed and soft; a sharp window of full brightness travels through them.

  • In· Opacity
  • DIM· Opacity, Blur
  • Out· Opacity

Elastic Emphasis

A mid-shot emphasis: the word swells from the centre letter and rings out.

  • In· Opacity, Position
  • POP· Scale, Position
  • Out· Opacity

Sine Scroll

A demo-scene wave that never stops: Power oscillates for the whole layer.

  • In· Opacity
  • SINE· Position
  • Out· Opacity

Outline Pulse

A coloured stroke swells around each letter in turn. Needs a stroke on the text.

  • In· Opacity
  • OUTLINE· Stroke Width, Stroke Color
  • Out· Opacity

Scramble Sweep

Mid-shot, a Character Offset pulse runs through the word: each letter scrambles and lands again.

  • In· Opacity
  • SWEEP· Position, Character Offset
  • Out· Opacity

Stacked builds

Several keyframe groups on one layer with an In and an Out, each with its own timing and flow. Swipe for more.

Neon Flicker

No In or Out at all: two keyframe groups flicker each tube on, glow purple, and cut out.

  • FLICKER· Opacity
  • GLOW· Fill Color

Liquid Title

Bouncy In, a rolling wave group, a purple sweep group and a blurred Out, all on one layer.

  • In· Position, Opacity, Scale
  • WAVE· Position, Rotation
  • SWEEP· Fill Color
  • Out· Opacity, Blur, Position

Glitch

Stepped Power spikes shift and skew the word while a second group scrambles letters.

  • In· Opacity
  • SHIFT· Position, Skew
  • SCRAMBLE· Character Offset
  • Out· Opacity

Decrypt Drop

Scrambled characters rain in from above, a scan bar stretches through, and it all drops away.

  • In· Position, Opacity, Character Offset
  • SCAN· Scale, Blur
  • Out· Position, Opacity, Blur

Bouncing Ball

A ballistic hop group and a squash group share timing, so every letter lands and squashes.

  • In· Opacity
  • HOP· Position
  • SQUASH· Scale
  • Out· Opacity

Earthquake

Out-of-phase tremors on every letter, then the whole word collapses out of frame.

  • In· Scale, Opacity
  • QUAKE· Position, Rotation
  • Out· Position, Rotation

Swing

A decaying Power run rocks each letter on its baseline like a hanging sign, then a drop Out.

  • In· Position, Opacity
  • SWING· Rotation
  • STRETCH· Scale
  • Out· Position, Opacity, Blur

Kinetic Punch

Word-based In, a punch group per word and a colour accent that lands on each one.

  • In· Scale
  • PUNCH· Scale, Rotation
  • ACCENT· Fill Color
  • Out· Position, Opacity

Depth Wave

Per-character 3D: a keyframe group swings each letter toward the camera and back, one after another.

  • In· Position, Opacity
  • DEPTH· Position
  • Out· Position, Opacity

Good to know

  • Pasting sets the layer to the preset’s length. Drag the layer’s end to make it longer: In starts at the layer’s in point, Out ends at its out point, and keyframe groups keep their keyframes relative to the layer’s start.
  • Offset is counted in frames per character (or per word or line), so a longer text takes longer to run through.
  • Colours are the purple from the clips. Change them in the Fill Color or Stroke Color effect. Outline Pulse needs a stroke on the text to show.
  • The previews use our sample words and fonts; your font, size and text change the look, not the timing. Three-Line Build expects three lines: its line groups pick line 1, 2 and 3 by Letter Flow.
  • On the Beat is keyed to the song in its clip. Subtitle Pop goes on the style layer before Flexile makes the subtitles.