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Text that Blows away like Sand ?
Having got the master collection, i’m seriously into editing so Prem Pro is brilliant, so easy to use with many little tweaks and settings that other packages just don’t have. Anyway to my question…. Here goes!… I’m just starting to look at Affter Effects…WOW… how good does this program look.. Well i’m editing a video that i made from a trip to australia some years ago.. Got most of it done but was wanting to make the intro titles slightly different.. So having checked out the tutorials (Which i have to say are brilliant, Aharon Rabinowitz and Andrew Kramer You ROCK!!) I wanted to use the Text that blows away like sand….https://library.creativecow.net/articles/eriksson_emanuel/sand.php
But cannot follow this for toffee.. Got some idea of what he is doing, but when i got to the..
“Now set a keyframe for Radius of New Particles at 0 and another at :5 value 0. ?
Make the last keyframe a hold keyframe.”?
TrkMat to Luma Inverted Matte “Text”. ?
Set this layer’s in point to -5. ?
set the out point to 1:15. ?Lost me from there onwards… Can anyone help with this please?
Total Newbie, But always willing to learn!! 🙂
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“Now set a keyframe for Radius of New Particles at 0 and another at :5 value 0. ?”
At 0, meaning 0 timecode. Aka, the beginning of your composition (0 seconds). :5 probably meaning 5 seconds or 5 frames into the composition. What is the timescale here? is the animation taking place over minutes or seconds?
Make the last keyframe a hold keyframe.”?
Look up ‘Hold Keyframe’ in After Effects help
TrkMat to Luma Inverted Matte “Text”. ?
On the layer section of the timeline window, you’ll see a column called Track Matte (TrkMat). Whichever layer he is talking about here, set the TrkMat dropdown box to ‘Luma Inverted Matte “Text”‘ This uses the luminance levels of the layer named “Text” as an inverted dynamic mask for whatever layer you apply the trkmat to.
Set this layer’s in point to -5. ?
-5 I assume meaning -5 seconds or -5 frames, so 5 seconds or frames before the beginning of the composition.
set the out point to 1:15. ?
1:15 meaning either 1 minute 15 seconds or 1 second 15 frames. It depends on the timescale of this project. Do whichever seems more natural.Sorry, I didn’t have time to go through the tutorial myself, but I hope that helped. I assumed you knew how keyframing worked, etc. etc. so forgive me if it seems a little abbreviated.
-Sean Emer
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Thanks my friend but i must be in a land of stupid at the moment… Just cannot get my head arond it all. tried doing what you said but ( iknow it takes a while for render times) the render done line did’nt move for over half an hour..
The comp is only 4 seconds long!
Cheers Dave 🙂
Total Newbie, But always willing to learn!! 🙂
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can i just sort this out if thats ok?
When it says make the the last keyframe a hold keyframe… Does this mean the last frame of the 4 seconds?
Tried the in point and out point set but think i may have got this wrong.
Think i’ve sorted everything else but again this is all new to me… You never know i might just get it in the end..
Regards Dave 🙂
Total Newbie, But always willing to learn!! 🙂
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I am trying to do this as well and found the same confusion as you in the description. Did you ever get this working? Can you share the light on what you did? His descriptions were great until the very end.
When he says “visibility” is he meaning opacity?
The numbers he uses for in-points and out-points makes no sense to me. Does he mean frames or seconds? Am I dragging the in-point off the timeline to left? What is the layer 1 out-point at 1:15 for? There is no in-point?
If anyone has some help here it would be greatly appreciated.
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