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  • Simple Light on text effect I just cant work out

    Posted by Conan Stott on May 31, 2009 at 6:41 am

    Hi.

    Can someone please help me. All I want is to make have a light ray kind of effect sweep across my text. Light rays isn’t really the look im going for, I would ,like more of a cc radial fast blur look. I would like each letter to shine with that fast blur effect as I sweep across it by keyframing the center of the blur. Unfortunately although I can center the blur I can not keep all the other letters in focus as the blur affects all of them.

    This effect I have seen countless times and always assumed it would be easy, but when I went to do it , well, nothing had the effect I was after.

    Can someone please help me with this?

    Thank you

    Regards

    Conan

    Bob Root replied 16 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Bob Root

    June 2, 2009 at 12:01 am

    Hi Conan,

    Hopefully this attached file is what you are looking for.

    The two key-framed parameters are the CC Radial Fast Blur center point and the mask shape (which is actually positioning) on the lighting text RFB layer.

    You can adjust the region affected by the fast blur by widening the mask.

    You might want to play around with the RFB amount to see if this gets you better results as well.

    Hope this works for you.

    Regards,

    Bob

  • Bob Root

    June 2, 2009 at 12:04 am

    Second try…

    I can’t get the file to upload.

    Hopefully this works

    73_conanlightray.aep.zip

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