How to do the Typewriter Write On Effect in DaVinci Resolve

in this lesson we are going to create

the typewriter text effect something

like this where it looks like the

letters are being typed individually

this gives your viewers something to

follow with their eyes and holds their

attention better than static text

DaVinci Resolve calls this to write on

effect hi welcome to sharing your

passion calm this is chill and let's get

it on okay here we are in DaVinci

Resolve this is version 16 so first

thing let's go to titles under toolbox

and go to text plus drag that into the

timeline okay it comes with the default

title so let's just paste in whatever

text we want I have a nice quote from

Maya Angelou and I've pasted it on as

you can see the text goes way over here

so what I do is resize the font down and

then I go over to the text box go to the

beginning press home here bring the

cursor over here and add a carriage

return and so that's that amount of

space I'll go here again add a carriage

return another one for and another so it

looks fine if I want a almost full page

effect here so you can resize this by

dragging this cursor here let's say

that's good enough and a new feature

that DaVinci Resolve added in the

previous version version 15 was this

text plus effect which allows for some

animation and that feature here is

called right on so look at this if I

drag this left handle around you can see

the words start to disappear from the

left and if I do it from the right

it'll disappear from the right okay for

some reason this right on feature

doesn't work well in this edit page so

what we need to do is go to the fusion

page which is here okay if you don't see

anything here click on keyframes now we

see our text and to see this a little

better just right click here and go to

scale and scale to fit and now we can

see the full text displayed fully as you

can see here this five second clip of a

text is 149 frames and if we play this

it's just showing us the full text and

so what we need to do is go to the very

first frame which is frame zero go over

here highlight that and through 0 enter

now we're at the very first frame let's

scroll down here on the right side to

the right on feature so let's drag the

right side cursor over to the left and

you see it's disappearing from the right

side until it's fully disappeared this

is how the typing effect works you don't

see it from the very beginning then it

starts to show up so this is our first

frame and let's click this diamond to

give it a keyframe now it's red

that's the keyframe and we can go

somewhere in the middle the second phase

of making the typewriter effect work is

to show it fully so let's go somewhere

in the middle let's say at 80 frames

later then it's still invisible right

because it's still fully to the left

here but as we drag this to the right

now we can see the full text again and

it automatically created a keyframe

right there this shows you the gradual

appearance of the text and from here

from this keyframe the full text is

shown until the end till until the 149th

frame

so now let's play this again from the

beginning it starts to type here you go

it's typing but it's way too fast

because it's only a 5 second clip and

the text is pretty long so we have to

add more seconds to this so what we do

is go back to the edit mode so this is

only a 5 second clip to show this and

it's too short so we can simply drag

this over and add 2 seconds 3 seconds 4

seconds 5 let's make it 10 seconds

another way to do that is I'm going to

undo that and another way to add seconds

to your clip is by right-clicking the

item and change clip duration you see

it's 5 seconds let's change that to 10

seconds enter so now it's 10 seconds and

let's play it from the beginning it's

still too fast because what we only did

was add time to the this part of it the

full text so to adjust the speed at

which it types we have to go back to the

fusion area and here is where you can

adjust that this bottom vertical line

here will adjust how quickly the text

will appear so we can drag it to the

right for a longer period of time to let

the text appear let's try somewhere over

here and let's go back to the beginning

play it ok so that that's a little fast

but that's pretty good

you can keep adjusting it the way you

want it it just depends on the length of

your text and how fast you want the

typewriter effect to work ok now back to

the Edit Page as you can see here this

part is red and this is starting to turn

blue DaVinci Resolve is is rendering

this text animation and when you see all

blue its

done when it's read or pieces are read

it's still rendering that animation for

the text okay so now let's go to a full

view press ctrl F and play ok that

looked pretty good so the other thing I

want to show you is if you want a white

background and black text or another

color text so let's just recreate this

by copying it select this press ctrl C

for copy drag this wherever you want to

start it ctrl V to paste and now we've

just copied that and to give it a white

background let's bring the text up one

level just drag this up one level here

so now we have a second video track and

what we're going to do here is create a

white background here and it's easily

done by going to toolbox generators

solid color drag that over and click

this item by default it's black let's

turn it white okay that and drag the

right side to match the text but we

don't see any text here because the text

is white so let's click the text area

and turn that to black okay it let's

wait for it to render here you go it's

turning blue almost done and it's done

so let's play this from this point and

now we have a white background with a

black text with the typing effect ok if

you wanted to adjust the way look make

sure your text is selected you can

adjust the size here and then you can

adjust the vertical position

by dragging the V anchor left or right

and also you can adjust the horizontal

anchor by dragging left or right okay

and if you adjust this h justify

horizontal justify if you bring it to

the right it will stretch V text and

from left to right fully here's it to

the left and here's it fully to the

right and you can move that around and

that's how you do the typewriter or

typing effect which is also called right

on feature in DaVinci Resolve