Question: How to “animate” a text like clouds and another question

[Ryan Hill]

For your first question, you should learn about “track mattes.” For the second, learn about keying, or bluescreening.

[Lezard]

Thanks, the first question worked ^__^. But I don’t understand how to make the second works. I mean, I have one text layer and the layer of the petals. Bluescreening it’s not to “eliminate” one color of the text layer? I mean, the thing I want to do is, when the petals pass over the text layer, this text layer dissapears. I could try with mask and works, but when I have too many petals, how can I make it?

Thanks.

[Ryan Hill]

I was suggesting keying to eliminate one colour from the petals layer. But keying is very different depending on what the background behind the petals looks like, so I don’t know exactly what would work best with the petals video.

Or do you mean that you want the petals to be invisible, and you want petal-shaped holes in the text? That will still be track matte, but with inverted settings from before.

[Lezard]

No, what I want to make is that the petals pass over the logo, but I want to preserve the real aspect of the text logo (color, border, gradient, etc). I mean, they are too many petals to “animate” their moves with masks one by one, so I thought it had to be another method to make things like this faster. To make it look like the text logo is behind the petals when they blow away.

Thanks you, once again ^^.

[Ryan Hill]

Then you want to apply a key effect to the petals. It depends on what the background behind the petals looks like in the video of the petals. Is it a solid colour? What colour? Is the camera locked off during the shot? How are they lit? All these things will affect how you can key the petals.