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Traveling Glow/Blur
Hey all,
I’m sorry. My brain is fried. Trying to work with Red footage while another client is asking for an organic glow/blur on a super from left to right that he wants today…
I would generate a light sweep in AE slowly mixed with a glow, but the type is pure white… so any add effect doesn’t have much (or any) effect… and they want to keep the text pure white.
Anyone have an idea for a fairly quick solution to achieve this with the standard AE tools? Not a trapcode shine effect, or light burst, but a glow/blur that travels from left to right and exits leaving the text normal?
I’m sure I’m just not thinking of something simple… please forgive me if I am.
Thank you much.
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4 Replies
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What about just duping the text layer, applying a fast blur of a few pixels and animating a mask over it?
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you could have just he soft glowing edges of the text sweep across…
add fast blur (blur would depend on font… try 10 for starters) to the text layer.
add the circle effect, set blending mode to stencil alpha, set radius and feather to suit, then animate the center across the blurred text.
add cc composite, set to add alpha.
if it works for you (and the client), you can select the effects and save as a preset (animation>save animation preset) to add whenever you need it.
i do think you may want to try a light gray for the text, and show your client that the glow sweep would have a bit more punch….
Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
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Beautiful. Thank you, Paul.
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Nice. This is great advice… I’ll do this so I have this for this future issue.
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