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  • Light glow on text from left to right

    Posted by Lucy Lu on March 16, 2016 at 8:06 am

    Hi! I’ve been working a lot with Premiere, but I’ve recently started playing around in After effects as well. I’ve been working on a project, but there was one thing i couldn’t figure out how to do. I tried google searching but i didn’t find anything helpful. I’m wondering how they did, or rather how i can achieve a similar effect on the text as they’ve done in this trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljtEg1VOVag&ab_channel=GameSpot

    As i’ve said i’m not really that experienced with this program, so i’d appreciate if you’d explain in a way that I could understand! Thanks for the help!

    (Sorry if I posted this in the wrong forum)

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    Michael Szalapski replied 10 years, 3 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  • John Cuevas

    March 16, 2016 at 1:33 pm

    Make your text layer. Add an adjustment layer above it and add the glow effect, tweak the settings to taste. Now just add a mask to the adjustment layer(about 25% the width of the comp), twirl open the settings and add a very large horizontal feather. Now just animate the mask from left to right.

    Here’s an example project demonstrating technique.

    9890_glowtext.aep.zip

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  • Michael Szalapski

    March 16, 2016 at 4:32 pm

    Or CC Light Sweep (or whatever it’s called).

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  • Lucy Lu

    March 18, 2016 at 12:45 pm

    Hi again. I want to thank you both for taking your time to answer my question, it really helped me out! I’m very thankful, and I appreciate the quick response. Thanks.

  • Michael Szalapski

    March 18, 2016 at 5:45 pm

    No problem! 🙂

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