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[Mylenium]

If you have Trapcode’s Particular, check my tutorial/ article here at the COW as well as the similar one on the Belief website. If that’s not an option, you’ll have to find some good photos with clouds and manually arrange them, I’m afraid.

Mylenium

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[Chris Zwar]

Try this:

Create a Pre-composition with animating fractal noise. Perhaps try using the “dynamic twist” setting and make it so it animates fairly quickly.

In your main composition, type out your text and import the fractal-noise pre-composition. Apply the displacement map, CC vector blur, and compound blur effects to your text. Turn off the fractal noise precomp so you can’t see it.

All 3 effects need a source layer (a “displacement map”, a “vector map” and a “blur layer” respectively)- specify your fractal noise precomp as the source layer.

With the CC vector blur plug-in, set the amount to about 30, the number of revolutions to 2 or 3, and the type to “direction fading”. Change the softness to about 5 and the property to luminance. If you want, animate the angle offset slowly.

With the compount blur, set the “invert control”.

You should get something fairly wispy and cloudy, which you can then composite into footage of real clouds (perhaps with a gradient wipe, again using your fractal noise precomp as the gradient).

With all 3 effects you can animate their amount parameters over time, starting with high settings to make the text cloudy and animating it to 0 to reveal your text.

Tweak from there. Hope this gets you started,

-Chris

[Trev]

thanks alot for the sugestions, really helpfull.
will do my best

cheers
trev