Text That Blows Away Like Sand

[Kyle Adams]

Ok thanks, I will look into that tutorial as well.. I really appreciate the help since i felt i was going in circles trying to figure out what i was doing wrong..On the tutorial that is listed on here i realized i was having a problem when he said “Create a new composition the same size and length as the previous, call it “wind”.
Create a new solid mask it off and animate its position over about 2 seconds.
Your final result should look something like this” Unfortunately my results came out wrong everytime..Thanks Again

[Joe Moya]

First, you always need to create new composition when you start a new project… see drop menus at top… creat new>composition

In this example you have tow compostions… one has the text… and the other has the mask/matte. (note: the green bars that indicate: First Compostion: Text and Second Composition: Wind).

The terms “same size and length”… means… the Second composition: Wind should be the same size and length. i.e., 320X240 size and 4 sec. long (see, the first sentence in the tutorial). … these boxes are in the composition settings window that comes up whe you create the new composition.

Create new sold… see drop menus at top of the screen…. drop this into the composition… then create the mask/matte.

To create the solid mask, you “cut” the sold mask with the pen tool…. see tutorial.

Then you create the Third composition: Sand…

I think a review of a general/basic tutorial would be VERY useful to you before you attempt this sand text… specially if your native lanquage is not english.

[Scott Novasic]

KYLE, Im glad you found some help, I am just getting back to the forum after some work. FYI- post ANY question you want on this forum related to a motion graphics effect. Don’t feel a need to scour the forum for tutorials, you can if you want, but you should feel welcome asking away.

No offense Mr Moya, but lose the attitude\sarcasm. I see it too much from impatient ‘know it alls’. If you don’t have a positive answer to a members question, then stay away. Tutorials work for some, for others they can be poorly constructed. He came to this forum to ASK a ‘how to’ question, NOT search for an archived tutorial. And I personally dont appreciate you telling ANYONE that this forum is the WRONG place to ask questions first on “how to do” a specific look or effect. Forums here on the cow will be changing names some, even more in the future, to help FOCUS questions. This forum is NOT just an After Effects forum, its
whatever software works BEST to accomplish an effect or look.

That tutorial is fine for a user thats paid the $200 some extra dollars for the plug-in. But particular is slow, and for some, diffucult to learn. It’s a perfect example of why you should ask an industry pro who has used MULTIPLE solutions to achieve an effect, and may recommend the easier,faster or better way to do the effect than the tutorial. Particular is a great example of this. Its so slow and convoluted that you NEED tutorials JUST to get something out of it.
Its a great solution for some things, but certainly not the first thing I would recommend to a new to intermediate user.

Its nice when users help out in these forums, but Ill tell you this, be glad Im telling you this and not Ron, He has no patience for anyone acting cocky or demeaning or sarcastic to
any users here.

Live, and learn……

SuperNova
Animation & Visual Effects
Scott Novasic
Los Angeles Ca
web:https://web.mac.com/finaleffects

[Joe Moya]

No offense Mr Moya, but lose the attitudesarcasm. I see it too much from impatient ‘know it alls’. If you don’t have a positive answer to a members question, then stay away. Tutorials work for some, for others they can be poorly constructed. He came to this forum to ASK a ‘how to’ question, NOT search for an archived tutorial. And I personally dont appreciate you telling ANYONE that this forum is the WRONG place to ask questions first on “how to do” a specific look or effect. Forums here on the cow will be changing names some, even more in the future, to help FOCUS questions. This forum is NOT just an After Effects forum, its
whatever software works BEST to accomplish an effect or look.

No offense taken… but, I did NOT post anything about this not being the place to ask questions… please reference where I posted that. Also, I believe I answered his question(s) after I asked for specifics and used references to tutorials for that purpose. Where is the “attitude” in that?

That tutorial is fine for a user thats paid the $200 some extra dollars for the plug-in. But particular is slow, and for some, diffucult to learn. It’s a perfect example of why you should ask an industry pro who has used MULTIPLE solutions to achieve an effect, and may recommend the easier,faster or better way to do the effect than the tutorial. Particular is a great example of this. Its so slow and convoluted that you NEED tutorials JUST to get something out of it.
Its a great solution for some things, but certainly not the first thing I would recommend to a new to intermediate user.

I don’t why you assume the poster does not have the ability or capacity to buy (or has) the plug-in… I didn’t see a post referencing this problem. The poster only said he didn’t understand how to make a mask. Plus, he has not asked if there is an alternative way to produce the effect. I think your assumptions may be incorrect… or… not?

I am not sure what posts you are reading and how much you have decided to add to my posts… but, nothing what you have posted here is even close to what has been posted by me… well… maybe, the part about using the search function. For that one line… I might have best to have just omitted. Other than that, you seem to put a whole lot of words into my mouth.

[Joe Moya]

Sorry… I hit the send button before I was done…

… to finish up…

All this being said… I am sorry if I offended anyone… that was not my intent.

Sarcasm? Funny thing that term… specially when you are posting on the internet… it is one of those terms that means nothing and everything all at the same time.

Now… the post is finished.

[Scott Novasic]

when someone who posts a question is given a sarcastic response that makes the questioner uncomfortable, its wrong. Period. Your last post where you apologized is all you needed to do,
we all can come across wrong at times, just apologize and move on.

have a great day!

SuperNova
Animation & Visual Effects
Scott Novasic
Los Angeles Ca
web:https://web.mac.com/finaleffects

[Joe Moya]

I Agree… so is mischaracterization.

[Scott Novasic]

you know what Joe, Both Kyle and I thought you were rude and sarcastic. I see no mischaracterization in that. Now I can tell you cant leave well enough alone and leave this thread with a simple apology.

You needed? ‘the last word’? Take your stubborn attitude somewhere else please. Let this thread end.

SuperNova
Animation & Visual Effects
Scott Novasic
Los Angeles Ca
web:https://web.mac.com/finaleffects

[Ben G unguren]

Kyle,
If you’re looking for something like this movie clip:

https://www.creativecow.net/articles/unguren_ben/shatter/images/tuts/shatter/X_41_noiseShatPrev.mov

…then you can read a tutorial I wrote years ago on Shatter. It goes into a fair amount of detail, and though it was written for 5.5 (I think) it should still work with newer versions of AE. The tut is here:

https://library.creativecow.net/articles/unguren_ben/shatter.php

(the sand-shatter stuff doesn’t happen until page 4)

cheers
ben

[Kyle Adams]

Hey ben thanks for the advice and I followed the tutorial and it worked out pretty well except the last part with the noise..For some reason when i set Pattern to Custom and Custom Shatter Map to the noise layer i seemed to have lost my effect instead of it turning into sand..I will keep plugging away though and hope i get it…Thanks Again i really appreciate it