Text Effects Like This????

[Stephen Smith]

Do you have Apple’s Motion?

Stephen Smith
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[Jason Smith]

hey there Stephen!

nupe….We have a bunch of trapcode plugins
and digital anarchies but no apple motion!

Looking for a down & dirty tutorial
on these types of motion effects

thx
Jason

[Kim Segel]

Not too hard…

I don’t know what software you’re using – so I’ll try to describe it generically:

You want to do 2 things:

1. Build your text with the kerning value animated to continuously increase over time. (Make a new layer for each line – so you can control them separately.) This spreads the letters out.

2. Make a blurry oval plate – white in the center and black at the edges.

Now, use the oval image to matte (reveal) the text, by scaling the oval layer up over time. Scale it back down to make the text disappear.

Good luck!

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–Emo Philips

[Geo Lam]

I use AfterEffects, so here’s my AfterEffecty suggestion.

Use a mask and text animation.

1. The text reveals itself from the middle to outwards. Make a feathered mask and animate the mask expansion.

2. The text spreads itself out over time. Make the text and in the property menus for your Text, twirl it open once and click “Animate” and then click “Tracking” and animate that.

3. The text randomly disappears, letter by letter. Same as (2), click “Animate” and then click “Opacity”. Twirl down to “Advanced” and turn on “Randomize Order” and animate the opacity offset.

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[Jason Smith]

Thx guys for the feedback!
We are using after effects here
so the masking route seems like the go anyways.

A vids tutorial would be great on this for the newbies

Cheers
Jason