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We were wondering if anyone knows a program (preferably free) that does a good job animating fonts (like in some animations like the tim and fRED series)? We learned that LiveType is a good program, but that is for Apple computers, and we have a Windows computer. Does anyone know of a Windows equivalent of this? Any help is appreciated! 
Not any free ones.
Well then, are there some fairly cheap programs that animate fonts? 
Yeah i've been wondering about Font Animators also...
I guess I will ponder with you.
Lets hope that our "pondering together" will not be the only help we will get... 
Premier Elements?
You can use that to make those Font things?
If I had known that I would of bought it when I was at Staples yesterday.....
What video editor are you using? Basic kinetic typography like that in tim & fRED would be easy enough to do with GIMP and any editor with keyframes.
Oh no i'm not smart enough to do that......
Are there any good tutorials for GIMP animating?
Animate with your editor, not GIMP (unless you edit with WMM, in which case you're screwed). And skwizitanee, it really is pretty easy, just a little time-consuming to get the exact look you want.
We currently use the following programs:
Pinnacle Studios 11 Plus
Adobe Photoshop Elements 8.0
Carrara 5
Wax 2.0 (occasionally)
Can any of these programs do text animating well?
You ought to be able to do something with Carrara, but it's far from ideal. I know nothing about Wax. If Pinnacle 11 is anything like the earlier version I once used, that's useless. You could create each individual frame in Photoshop, but it'll take forever and look like crap when it's done. Unfortunately, your best option would probably be to get someone else who has the appropriate software to do it for you.
lil'jj, what is this "Scroller" of which you speak? I googled it and got nothing.
I don't know, I heard about it somewhere on Brickfilms.com. I think I got the name wrong
In Carrara, is there any way to create text? I know that in Blender you can make text and have it part of your scene. If you can do it in Carrara, then it's a simple matter of animating it and tweaking the colors.
Well, I can do it easily in Adobe After Effects, but that's pretty much useless information.
Why not in Premier?
@ LegoDudez: He doesn't own Premiere. We're still trying to figure out a free option.
@ BG: Even if there's not, there has to be a way to put a custom texture on an object. Just make that texture an image with the desired words.
Oh, Photoshop.
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