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Make Typo look “cinematic”
Hi everyone,
one task I see myself often confronted with, is to make typo look more “filmic” / realistic, whatever. What are your little tricks to give typo this extra “wow”? I normally use a discreet glow with twiggle-glow width but there must be more than this!
Are there any other ways to reduce the gap between film-footage and charts / text used in a movie?
Looking forward to your ideas!
Cheers
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3 Replies
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A simple suggestion, but maybe try adding a little grain to it?
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I’ll preface my suggestions by saying I’m hardly an advanced user of AE, but based on my observations of film trailers and the like, a common technique seems to be to add a light source to create some subtle falloff effects. Other techniques I’ve seen used are various text animations of position or kerning to keep the eye trained on the text.
Just some very general thoughts. 🙂
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Another flourish to try is to add the tiniest bit of random movement to the layer. Although it’s day is closing, the venerable film projector doesn’t hold the film perfectly steady, especially after throwing the image a few hundred feet to the screen.
Reducing the pixel-perfect steadiness makes it more alive.
Try Position Expression:
(whatever position is).wiggle(1,1,3,0.5)—————————–
motion, graphics, & scripting
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