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Smoke Text Effect Animation in PowerPoint Tutorial

Rajiv Kohli
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Once a guy commented on this Smoke Text Effect video that “You did nothing. Just displaying text in front of a video.” and in one way, he was absolutely right. He also called it a ClickBait Title. That could also be true but my intentions were always clear. Educate, that’s it. Surely, both of these videos helped and encouraged me to build my career as a Youtube Insider but I tried my best in all my tutorials. But if you are interested in learning this animation then keep reading this out-of-syllabus story.

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Let me first tell you the Lifetime Youtube Analytics (since uploaded) of this video Titled “Smoke Text Effect in Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 Tutorial” with an attractive Thumbnail displaying very attractive smoke behind the text. If you Youtube about the “Smoke Text Effect” then surprisingly (or maybe; not sure as different results could appear according to so many factors) this video is on top of the chart but if you scroll down then you will find a video from Morocco Tutorials Titled “After Effects Tutorial: Smoke Text Effects“. That is the original video from which the idea sparked in my mind. I would personally like to thank him for providing the Project & Items in his video description.

Those Project Files were in MOV format because he created them in After Effects with a Transparent Background. You need to fulfill these requirements to try this animation effect in PowerPoint:

You can not Insert a MOV file into PowerPoint unless you should have Quick Time Player installed on your system and this only works with 32 Bit Version of Microsoft Office. But that was not easy for beginners to fulfill these requirements just to create one animation in PowerPoint.

Recently, I converted those videos into MP4 format and updated the links in the video description and that is why you are here: To read more about this smoke effect and download the project files.

Total 5 Files in ZIP Format (Download and then right-click Extract All)

The ZIP file contains 5 Files: Background Music New.MP3, Background.PNG, Flare.PNG, Flare.MP4, and Trailing Particles.MP4

I have both PowerPoint 2016 and Office 365 Business on my Desktop and Laptop respectively. I was facing a problem where videos were not playing during the slideshow even though all the settings were correct. If you are facing such a problem then you can watch our video on Embedded Videos Don’t Play in PowerPoint 2016 Tutorial or follow these instructions:

Generally, disabling them always works.

#ListenMicrosoft – Whereas I think, it doesn’t matter if you have a high-end graphics card installed with Intel Core i7 – 8th Generation Processor; PowerPoint never support them. So much lag when you have a lot of objects having tons of animations applied. Glitches when you export those Presentations as MP4 videos.

Leave a comment if you feel the same

Smoke Text Effect Youtube Analytics as of 5th October 2009

Youtube Analytics is from 18th November 2016 to 3rd October 2019. The highest views were 3.7K in a day.

Then I created another video on the same theme titled “Particles Text Effect in Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 Tutorial | The Teacher”. Youtube for “particle text effects” and you will again find the Morocco Tutorials video on 3rd Rank (these rankings rapidly change) and mine on 8th Rank.

Then I started creating more and more animation videos on my Youtube Channel. Before that, I tried to convince people about the animation #possibilitieswithpowerpoint by creating 10 Youtube Intro Templates in PowerPoint. But after a lot of hard work, all templates failed to get people’s attention. Then I created a composition of all the templates and titled it “Top 10 Best Free 2D Youtube Intro Templates | PowerPoint 2016 Animation”.

This video is also one of my top trending videos and all of your love encouraged me to explore more animation possibilities in PowerPoint. That was the time when I started to replicate animations from After Effects Tutorials on Youtube (Many Channels – always tried to give Credits in the video description), GIF Files, Google Searches, CodePen.IO, Dribbble.com, Pinterest, and many more. I started using these keywords in my uploads: “Motion Graphics in PowerPoint”

Then I put all my energy to make more animation videos in PowerPoint. You might have noticed that a lot of previously published videos are about PowerPoint animations. Even though I have a lot more to teach you like How To Build A Career on Youtube? Today, posted a poll on my channel. If you have time then please vote and thanks to all of you for your great support!

Concept of Smoke Text Effect

The idea behind replicating this animation in PowerPoint is simple. The Text is appearing just at the right movement when the Smoke trail passes by. The video tutorial only has subtitles but no voice. So, hope you will find this article useful. Here are the steps to make the job done!

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Smoke Text Animation Effects

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You can adjust the Duration and Delay Timings of any of the objects according to when you want them to appear/disappear from the screen.

In video a few adjustments in Delay Timings has been applied in the end.

Finally, insert the Flare video from the Insert tab – Video – From File / Video on My PC. Set to Start With the Previous with Delay Timings of 4:00 Seconds (or 4:30 as you like). Make sure to send the Flare video behind all the other objects. Also, hide Rectangle 4 from the Selection Pane as we no longer need it.

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In our Smoke Text Video Tutorial embedded below, we also added Glowing Text Layers when the Flare video flashes. You can skip that or you can use the Flash Once animation effect instead of applying Appear / Disappear effect to each layer at specific times.

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PPT Info

PowerPoint Presentation
File Type: PPT / ZIP
No. of Files: 2
File Size: 10MB PPT / 10MB ZIP+MP4
Number of Slides: 1 + MP4 Videos For Background
Scene: Animated Smoke Text Effect

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