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  • high-usage inscription in advertisements, how to make?

    Posted by Mariia Dakir on February 27, 2013 at 4:34 pm

    Hello everybody,
    very often in ads videos I face with effective inscription-description like in video below:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsGBzYB3si8
    starts at 5-6 seconds

    could anybody recommend me plugin or way how can I make it in AE? Any plugin or preset?

    Please help! It is impossible to just googling answer for this question that is why I am asking for your help.

    Vishesh Arora replied 13 years, 6 months ago 3 Members · 8 Replies
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  • John Cuevas

    February 27, 2013 at 5:03 pm

    Couple of techniques are used to create that effect. Graphically it’s not hard, one of the type-presets + a stroke to create the line + Glow.

    The other thing is using the 3D camera tracker. Here’s a pretty good tutorial showing how to use the 3D tracker:
    3D Camera Tracker Basics – After Effects CS6

    If you want to pay for a subscription this one looks like it would explain what you want to do also: D Object Tracking in After Effects CS6 – Tuts+ Premium

    After Effects CS6 3D Camera Tracker

    Johnny Cuevas, Editor
    Thinkck.com

    “I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
    —THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

  • Mariia Dakir

    February 27, 2013 at 5:16 pm

    yes actually I am interesting about creating this text and line and which preset I have to use..

    Although I’ve recognized 3D camera tracking here, thanks for links!

  • John Cuevas

    February 28, 2013 at 2:02 am

    I made an example project and you can take a look at that.

    For the line, I just created a solid(“Stroke”) and used the pen tool to make a straight line and added the Generate > Stroke effect and keyframed the “end”.

    To make the ball at the end of the line, I created a black solid, changed it’s transfer mode to “Add” and added the Generate > Lens Flare effect. I copied the mask path from “Stroke” and pasted that data on to the Flare Center. I then matched up the keyframes so that it would move with the stroke. Lastly I animated the Flare brightness.

    For the text, I had to do this with 2 layers. For the first layer, I just did all the text except for the “]”. I used the preset Animate In > Fade Up Characters. Then I made a text layer of just the “]” and keyframed the opacity and position so it looked like it was racing ahead of the text that was fading up.

    To match your example, I would precompose everything. Camera track the video, create a null point and parent my text precomp to that null.

    Here’s my example project, hope it gives you a good starting point: 5545_stroke.aep.zip

    Johnny Cuevas, Editor
    Thinkck.com

    “I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
    —THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

  • Vishesh Arora

    February 28, 2013 at 10:46 am

    Mariia

    John has already given you an excellent way to achieve this effect. Though you may find these links useful:

    Beam Effect with Tracker

    https://vimeo.com/14264152

    Vishesh Arora
    3D and Motion Graphics Artist
    Films Rajendra

    Blog:
    https://digieffects.wordpress.com

    2011 3D Demo Reel:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHPgIJU_BR8

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  • Mariia Dakir

    February 28, 2013 at 6:06 pm

    John, many thanks for provided project file and excellent explanation! It is really helpful for me and at the same time I have learned some techniques from this project.
    Hope other people will enjoy this tutorial too.
    Thanks for your time!

  • John Cuevas

    February 28, 2013 at 7:08 pm

    As you can see by Vishesh example in AE, there are a lot of different ways to approach any problem. I’m glad we were able to help you out, if you have any more questions, I’m always happy to help out if I can.

    Johnny Cuevas, Editor
    Thinkck.com

    “I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
    —THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

  • Mariia Dakir

    March 1, 2013 at 3:48 pm

    Yes, thanks to Vishesh I also have learned Beam Effect and sure I’ll use it!

  • Vishesh Arora

    March 1, 2013 at 4:31 pm

    Glad we could help Mariia.

    Vishesh Arora
    3D and Motion Graphics Artist
    Films Rajendra

    Blog:
    https://digieffects.wordpress.com

    2011 3D Demo Reel:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHPgIJU_BR8

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