Type transition

[Ken]

It looks like he used a clip of a paint splatter or drip as a luma matte to reveal the text. You might be able to replicate this by scaling a still of a paint splatter and using that as a matte for your text.

[Peter Baker]

Thanks for responding.

I will try that. I guess the secret is getting the perfect luma matte motion. Something that begins completely dark and ends light.

– Peter

[Adam Mercado]

yes, the key is to get a luma (or alpha) matte that goes from all black to all white. A simple fade or wipe will do this. But what if you want a more organic look like in the sample you provided? What if you dont have time or means too set up a camera to shot paint splatters? What tools are there in AE that can create some random noise that will fade from black to white…..

Thats right, our good old trusty friend fractal noise. I do this all the time to make what you would call gradient wipes. Yo yhave to play with the fractal noise plug in for a bit to get the desired density of noise and contrast and scale etc. But you set that to your luma track matte after animating the brightness and contrast values, in Erik Lauritsen’s case, very quickly over 3-4 frames, and voila..

hth
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[Robert Houghton]

Another plugin to use especially for a nice duplication of a paint splatter is a nice precomped particle generator as a track matte.

-Rob

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[Peter Baker]

Great! This is all good for me. I will give all of these a try.

– Peter