While creating a sports video you may want to add a scoreboard to make it look more spectacular and engaging for your audience. It may be quite tricky but this step-by-step guide will help you make a video with a scoreboard easily.

To start with AVS4YOU, you need to have it installed on your PC. Make sure that it is installed correctly. Once done, launch the program and Import media files for a new project. Let’s see how to create a sports scoreboard from scratch.

Creating scoreboard overlay in AVS Video Editor

Step 1. Introduce the score separator

Open your project in AVS Video Editor and add the first text object on the timeline. Set the necessary style and other parameters clicking on Edit Text and insert “:”. Make sure that there is enough space for entering numbers. 

Step 2. Set the score numbers

Put a new text line, clone the first text object and place it on the second line. Go to the settings of the second text object and change the text to “0 “ (zero and three spaces). This is the left score value. The spaces are needed for leaving enough space around the colon.

Let’s select the desired Fade In and Fade Out animations which will help us save time in the future.

Repeat the second step and edit the text settings of the 3rd object. Introduce three spaces and 0. This is the right score value.

At this step it is recommended that you select the desired Fade In and Fade Out animations for the third text object. Please note that they should match the animations of the second text object.

Step 3. Change the score parameters

The scheme is ready. To increase the score, you need to duplicate the second or third text object and increase its value. After that put the text object at the right position on the Timeline, aligning the other text objects involved in the “count”, until you reach the point where the score changes again. 

Repeat the previous step as many times as necessary unless you reach the desired score values.

How to make an animated scoreboard

To make the scoreboard look more striking, you can add animation.

Step 1. Apply Fade Out to the first score value

Let’s go back to the first value on the left, click on Edit and set the cursor to its final position.

Now, by pressing the “Previous frame” button or the Alt+Left combination, move the cursor one second from the final position to the left.

Click on Fade Out or use the key combination Ctrl+Alt+O. The settings have been defined earlier.

Let’s do the same with the first right value of the score. 

Step 2. Add Fade In to the last score value

Click on Edit of the last right value. Put the cursor at the very beginning and move it one second from the initial position to the right to position 1.000 by pressing Next frame (Alt+Right). Apply Fade In (Ctrl+Alt+I) to the left value. 

Let’s do the same with the last right value of the score.

Step 3. Set Fade In and Fade Out to the intermediate score numbers

For the remaining values ​​which are different from the first and the last ones, you need to set both Fade In and Fade Out. To do this, simply combine the steps for the first and last value and apply them to the intermediate value.

Done! Repeat the previous steps as many times as necessary until you reach your desired intermediate score values.

Following these steps in AVS Video Editor, you will be able to build a simple or animated scoreboard perfectly with the right elements at hand.