Alight Motion is a video editing application originally released for Android devices. It has amazing abilities to produce exclusive clips for you to thrive with. Among its other special features, Alight Motion can also let you add text to your videos. The text then can be changed by the font style properties with many more changes in appearance. This article will explain the ways you change the font and how to use new font styles on your video text.
Using Font from the Font Library
Alight Motion consists of a library with many font styles already in it. To access this, you can first start a new or an existing project and then create a text layer in it. The text layer can be added from within the text tools. This will take you to the text editing interface on your project. There is a dropdown menu here which will give you a considerable selection of font styles. Select one out of those and the text you type next will be in that font style.
Importing fonts to Alight Motion
Sometimes, you might feel that Alight Motion does not give you a wide choice of built-in font styles. Therefore, in such times, you may need to import it from an external source to the video you are creating. You can do this by the traditional way of transferring the draft to your PC, editing the text and then getting it back to the mobile. However, there are shorter and easier ways of importing the font styles you want to your mobile straightaway as well.
One way to do this is by copy pasting text of a preferred style from an external source and paste it on the video. Thereafter, if you want to edit the text, you can do it with the normal text editing tools of the app.
The other, or, the standard way of importing text to your Alight Motion video draft is as follows:
Step 1:
Open the web browser of your Android or iOS device and search for “free fonts for Alight Motion”. You may look in trustworthy websites such as Pixel Font Alight Motion, 1001 Free Fonts, etc. There will be long lists of fonts that you can download for free from these sites. So when you select one after previewing each, you can tap on the “Download” button to it to your device.
Another way is to look in sites such as MyFonts, Adobe Fonts, etc. where you find better font styles. But you will have to pay a simple price to download from these websites. Either way, the downloaded files will be in .ttf or .otf format and uncompressed. You should keep in mind that those are the only formats that the downloaded font will be usable in.
Step 2:
Now you should add your downloaded font to the Assets/Media Library in the App. You can do this by launching the Alight Motion app > Select the Media tab from the bottom of your home screen > Tap on “Add Asset” option > then tap on the “Add Local Files” > Select the folder where the downloaded font file is stored in and give the “Open” command. This way, your new font style shall be added to the Media library.
Step 3:
The final step is to use what you freshly downloaded on your new projects. This can be easily done with the simple steps you already know in Alight Motion.
Create a new text layer in your project. Next, select the newly added font styles from the Assets library. This will apply the selected font style to the text that you are going to type. Now you can select the location from the timeline of the clip and type the text or a quote as you wish. This text you are typing can be previewed in the new font style from there itself.
Tips to remember about using font in Alight Motion
Some of the latest Alight Motion versions installed on modified devices, you can add multiple fonts to the projects in one go. All you have to do is to select what and what you want to import and long press on it before you confirm the selection.
In the Alight Motion versions for iOS, the font can be customized as per the user’s preference. So, just like what you do on your PC applications, you can edit the text properties by changing the style, size, color, etc. from the app itself. This saves you from wandering over the websites looking for matching font styles.
Sometimes, you might not be able to import certain fonts to your project in Alight Motion. There could be several reasons for this. Either the font had not been successfully downloaded to your device. In such cases the font will not even be displayed in the Asset library. In other cases, the downloaded font may not be in the correct file format or as a corrupted file. In such cases too, the font cannot be applied to the project.
In case you face such an inability to apply the font you have imported, the best and easiest way to resolve the problem is by reinstalling the font. You can delete the downloaded file by finding it in the present location first. This can be followed by browsing the internet and getting the font style again downloading the same.
When you can customize the font from the app, you may explore new combinations of different styles. You also can try importing a specific style and adjusting its properties to end up with an extraordinarily creative style.
However, too much decorative text will not be allowed by the app. Especially when the text becomes undetectable or too heavy for the clip, it will be not displayed on time or shall remain unclear to the viewer. Therefore, it is advisable to remain at a level of simplicity as well.
Final Words
With the advice and the steps explained in this article to use fonts in Alight Motion in different ways, you should now be able to add more life to your videos. Surely, adding text to a clip is another way to help you deliver the message or the story you want the reader to see.
Therefore, use text, and more importantly the font wisely on your videos. This will attract the audience and keep up the enhancement of your creations.