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  • Smokey text reveal?

    Posted by His Dudeness on May 8, 2005 at 7:45 pm

    Hi all,

    Im trying to create a sort of smokey Film Noir-ish text reaveal for the titles of my black and white animation. How would i go about doing this in either Premiere or After Effects? Sort of like the text’s alpha layer becomes smokeier (sp?) and smokeier until the full text is revealed. Any thoughts? Im afraid im relatively new to After Effects…

    Thanks for your time,

    Sandy.

    Richard Scott replied 21 years ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  • His Dudeness

    May 8, 2005 at 7:49 pm

    PS – it would be nice i the smokey effect was animated also! Is this possible? Thanks…

  • His Dudeness

    May 10, 2005 at 12:25 pm

    anyone?

  • Richard Scott

    May 10, 2005 at 2:39 pm

    I am not sure of the exact look you are trying to achieve but what I can tell you might try building your text (the larger and more bold the better the effect will look) and use it to cut a matte. Fill that matte with your smoke background and then drag the completed smoke filled text into another compostition to layer it on top of whatever you want. That last part is optional but it will give you a little more flexibility.

    Good luck.

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