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title: "Type On"
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description: "Quickly create computer terminal-style type reveals. Includes tons of options for customizations and randomizations."
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# TYPE ON

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Quickly create computer terminal-style type reveals. Includes tons of options for customizations and randomizations.

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## Getting Started

- Drag the **uni.Type On** effect onto a clip.
  - When applying a Text Effect directly to footage, head into the *Blend Mode* section toward the bottom of the parameters to switch it from its default *None* to *Normal* .

## Presets

- Click the **Choose a Preset** button to see an animated preview of all available presets. Double-click any preset to apply it.
- After modifying the effect, select **Save a Preset...** to save the modifications as a custom preset.

## Modifying the Effect

- **Edit Text** launches a modular window with options to customize the text input for the effect, including the font, size, color, emphasis (bold, italic, both, none), character spacing, and line spacing.
- **Position** controls the coordinates that define where within the frame your text will appear.
- **Type On** adjusts the animation's state on a scale from 0% (start) to 100% (end).
- **Type On Direction** controls where the text types on from *(Left to Right, Right to Left,*or*Random).*
- **Scroll** toggles whether the text moves upward when one line completes and the next one begins.
- **Filler Character** determines what character appears in any space unoccupied by text.
- **Prefix Character** sets which character appears as a precedent to the text.
- **Suffix Character** sets which character appears following the text.
- **Text Settings**
  - **Font Size** adjusts how large or small the text appears.
  - **Font Color** defines the text color.
  - **Justification** determines if the text is aligned to the *Left, Center,*or*Right.*
  - **Line Spacing** adjusts the spacing between lines.
  - **Horizontal Tracking** controls the spacing between characters.
- **Cursor**
  - **Cursor** toggles whether a cursor appears where text is typed.
  - **Cursor Type** contains a preset list of options that define the cursor's appearance.
  - **Cursor Offset** adjusts where in relation to the type-on effect the cursor appears.
  - **Use Text Color** toggles whether the cursor is the same color as the text.
  - **Cursor Color** defines the cursor's color if *Use Text Color* is disabled (see above).
  - **On Duration** and **Off Duration** controls the rate the cursor blinks on and off.
- **Randomization**
  - **Random Direction** sets the direction in which any random characters appear: *Random, Left to Right,*or*Right to Left.*
  - **Random Characters** controls the percentage of characters in the text that are overwritten with randomly-generated characters.
  - **Manual Scroll** scrolls through more randomizations occurring on any of the *Random Characters* appearing in the text.
  - **Scroll Rate** controls the speed at which randomized text changes from one character to the next.
  - **Link Type On / Scroll** toggles whether the randomized text only changes when the text is typed on.
  - **Preserve Spaces** toggles whether spaces in your text inputs are included in the randomized text animations.
  - **Random Seed** adjusts the formula, and subsequently the variations, used to create the random effect.
  - **Random Characters** contains toggles that define which types of characters appear within the randomizations as well as what *Number Limit* or *Character Limit* (A-Z) is in place.
- **Effects**
  - **Enable Glow** toggles a glow around the text with control over the brightness **(Glow Intensity)**and expansion **(Glow Radius)** of the glow.
  - **Enable Scan Lines** toggles an array of lines that overlay the text, complete with adjustable line width **(Scan Line Thickness),**spacing between lines **(Scan Line Spacing),** and opacity **( Scan Line Opacity).**
- **Foreground Opacity** and **Background Opacity** control the opacity of the text *(Foreground Opacity)*or the layer the text has been applied to *(Background Opacity),* complete with the standard **Blend Mode** options that adjust how the text overlay interacts with the background. *None* is the default, with *Normal* overlaying the text on top of whatever background to which it's been applied.