How to add delay in text?

Software Natron
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I want to add a delay in text nodes. I have 3 text bullet points, and I want to add 3 seconds of delay between bullet points. How do I do it? I am using portable natron.

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How do you define “delay”? Is there a transform animation? Is there an opacity animation? How exactly do you want the text delayed?
If you want all of the 3 bullet points to have the same opacity animation, put them all on one text layer, then keyframe the “a” (alpha) component of the font color according to when you want the text to appear.
If you want to do a transform animation, use a transform node after the text node and animate the translate, rotate, and/or scale parameters using keyframes.

3

Thank you very much for your response.

I’m new to Natron. A teammate provides me with a .ntp file, which I load using the portable version of Natron. The file may contain elements such as bullet points, icons, and colored boxes.

I need to display these elements sequentially:

  • The first bullet, text, and box should appear at 0 seconds.
  • The second set should appear after 3 seconds.
  • The third set should appear after another 3 seconds, and so on.

Could you please advise how to achieve this?
Is there a specific function, keyframe method, or scripting approach I should use?

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Since you’re new to Natron, I recommend you start by watching some tutorials on youtube and reading the documentation.

You’ll need to create separate text elements for each bullet point. You can make colored boxes using constants and roto, or you can make them in any image editing software and import as images in Natron. You can import the icons as images.
You’ll need to first create “group” elements using merge nodes. I.e. if bullet point A, colored box A, and icon A should be animated together, you should merge them together first, so you can manipulate the output of only the one merge node and not three different nodes.
After you have made the “group” elements, all you have to do is merge them one after the other on top of a background, and then keyframe the “Mix” parameter of each Merge node to make the elements appear, one by one, at the appropriate time.