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Boris Light FX…
Hi Guys…
Working on a MC Adrenaline this evening.
Client wanted me to add a Light Sheen animating across the face of text elements.
The elements were madein PSD with Alpha channels….
I found the Boris AVX effect, but couldn’t seem to contain the effect to the text spcifically, it wanted to apply to the text and the background.
I tried stepping into the Text element and applying it only to the fill…but that didn’t seem to work either….
how do you do this?
Also…are there good built in edge rays (for volumetric fx…or light coming from behind and around edges of text)?
your help is appreciated….
Alex Udell
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Depending on the version, there may be a check box for text in the palette. Sorry – systems down and can’t verify.
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light burst in Final Effects does this brilliantly though slowly, don’t know if it’s still available, it gave an option – halo alpha – which does exactly what it says,
work around for sheen effect…
dupe your text layer, blur it a liitle and hot it up with cc (if it isn’t already 255) then option add animatte/or a circular wipe on top, use this to create a travelling mask across the blurred text.
You could go back to photoshop to create a slighty oversized/glowy version of the text then just add the travelling mask/wipe in avid…
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Hey…
I’ve been using the Mask for an overall mattebox effect on the project…
I did’t think to use it for the glow…DUH….
that’s a good idea….
I’m still curious about using the included Boris FX AVX though…
this is a pretty common effect so I figured that that is somehow the intent of the plug-in…but I hvae had ppl tell me that Avid is not the friendliest app when it comes to dealing with alpha channels…
thanks for the insights…
Alex
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for your effect to work on text created in ps you need to manipulate the alpha layer which is probably locked, so avid won’t allow you to step in and add the effect, and presumably the effect becomes invisible when added to the fill because the aplha layer is still the same…
If practical import the text as a flat layer ignoring any alphas, luma key, then step in to add the boris effect.
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“for your effect to work on text created in ps you need to manipulate the alpha layer which is probably locked, so avid won’t allow you to step in and add the effect, and presumably the effect becomes invisible when added to the fill because the aplha layer is still the same…
If practical import the text as a flat layer ignoring any alphas, luma key, then step in to add the boris effect. ”
first this part: “added to the fill because the aplha layer is still the same…”
hmm…ok, but really I only want the light within the fill. So if the alpha is the same…light goes on fill…then Alpha truncates the light outside the fill….at least that’s what my brain says.
now this part: “luma key, then step in to add the boris effect. ”
hmmm…ok…but luma keying really limits the image options….
perhaps there is a way to bring in the fill and matte seperately
apply the Boris Effect…
then nest and combine it with the split matte via a matte key?
alex
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have tried checking the apply title matte button.
we use bcc 3 or 4 at work and use the light effects on psd’s all the time. -
that must be it!
missed it last night….
thank you…
Alex
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This may not answer your question about Boris, and I haven’t been on an Avid in months, but Elastic Gasket allows you to use many AE problems within Avid. I think I used Shine in Avid at one point without a problem (for that glowing text effect you’re seeking)
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Wow…what a pain…
I orignally built the piece I was working using the Avid repo tools built into the text for animating and scaling a text object….
then the Producer says he wanted shine fx at specific parts…
so I split the clip and apply the Light Sweep FX…and I have to rebuild the move in the Light FX plug…and the coordinate systems don’t match Avid native coords…
ugh…
I did get it done though…
Now I see why ppl do stuff in compositing apps and just assemble in Avid….
regardless of how many layers it has….
sometimes it’s just easier to do this stuff elsewhere….
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[Les Kaye] “AE problems within Avid”
Talk about a slip – make that “AE plug-ins within Avid”.
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