Please help with text effect

[Mike Clasby]

Maybe these will strike a cord, get you goin’, etc:

With Particle Playgound, “Text that Blows away like Sand”:

https://library.creativecow.net/articles/eriksson_emanuel/sand.php

With Particular, “Building Up Particles “, reverse this maybe:

https://library.creativecow.net/articles/lee_james/particle_build_up.php

Also, methinks, Shatter can do this.

And I think the quickest (dirtiest?) would be CC Ball Action (Decrease Grid Size and Ball Size, Up Scatter) followed with Scatter or CC Scatterize (uncheck Randomize every frame). I think I’d try Ball Action and Scatter first.

Andromeda Strain a fun oldie, but I remember squirming in my theater set when the virus mutated en-mass, every virus in that population at the same instant… hmmm… I couldn’t buy that one.

[Jay Deutsch]

Nice, How do I mask the text so the imported fire clip plays only inside the text?

[Joey Burnham]

You can put the fire layer above the text layer and use a track matte for the text layer.