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Creating Text Overlays

Using Nuke’s Text node, you can add text overlays on your images. You can simply type in the text you want to have displayed, or use TCL expressions or TCL variables to create a text overlay. Text overlays can also be animated using animation layers so that their properties, such as position, size, and color, change over time. These features make the Text node useful, for example, for creating slates or scrolling credits.

 

Preparing a Text Overlay

Entering Text

Fonts and Font Properties

Updating the Font Cache

Transforming Text

Animating Transforms

Changing the Text Color

Masking Regions of the Viewer

Adding a Drop Shadow to Text