Bob Root
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Hi Conan,
Hopefully this attached file is what you are looking for.
The two key-framed parameters are the CC Radial Fast Blur center point and the mask shape (which is actually positioning) on the lighting text RFB layer.
You can adjust the region affected by the fast blur by widening the mask.
You might want to play around with the RFB amount to see if this gets you better results as well.
Hope this works for you.
Regards,
Bob
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Hi Dan,
After Effects has an plug-in called CC Burn Film.
While it’s parameters are limited, it creates the basic effect pretty well. You can play around with the seed to get some variations.
Good luck,
Bob
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Kevin is correct. The effect was made by key-framing the mask.
If your continent shapes are already masked (with vertices), follow his instructions. One problem you may run into is the crossing of vertex paths. To try to correct this, select one of your original vertices on the letter mask. Right click (or ctrl click) your mouse and select Set First Vertex from the Mask menu… then try your animation again. You may have to try other points to set your first vertex to in order to get the right animation.
If you end up creating your own mask animation from a letter to a continent, you’ll have a little more control over crossing paths. Don’t worry to much about an equal number of vertices between the letter and continent. AE was pretty forgiving and did a nice interpolation when I tried the Australia morph. You can always check animation along the way as you add additional points to your second keyframe (the continent mask.
I’ll try to upload my file. Step 1 moves the points of the “O” to a very rough shape of Australia. Step 2 is the addition of vertices to the second keyframe to get a more accurate Australia shape.
Remember to set your first (Mask Shape) keyframe before you start reshaping the “0”. Then move down the timeline a couple of seconds to create the continent shape.
Best of luck and ask away if you have any questions,
Bob
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Here’s something to start with. Copy and paste this code to your layer opacity.
20+1.1*thisComp.layer(“Camera 1”).transform.position[2]
As long as your camera’s z-position is greater than 0, you’ll get a minimum opacity of 20%. You can adjust the “1.1” property in the code to change the rate of opacity change in relation to camera distance.
I’m not sure how to set the maximum opacity to 90%. I’m kind of a newbie to expressions.
Hope this helps a little.
Bob
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https://shorts.creativecow.net/film/australia-morph
Here’s the letter “O” morphing to the Australian continent. I added and adjusted the additional vertices after moving the original “O” vertices to a rough shape of the continent.
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Forgot to mention that you’ll save alot of time and frustration if you work with each letter in its own layer. You can copy the individual letter paths from Illustrator to seven separate layers in AE.
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One option (a bit tricky) would be to build your text in Adobe Illustrator.
After typing “NATIONS” select your text and choose Create Outlines in theType drop-down menu. This will convert your text to an editable vector path. Select All and Copy.
In After Effects you can paste your copied text into a color layer. This will create an editable mask for all of the letters in “NATIONS”. You can keyframe and animate the individual mask points from there on.
There are two tricky things when doing this however…
First, your letter mask needs to have the same number of vertices of the shape you will be morphing to. If needed, you can add additional vertices within After Effects using the pen add vertex tool.
The other issue will be the inside vertices on the letters “A” and “O”. Probably the best way to deal with this is keyframe your mask transparency from 100% to 0% at sometime during your morph. Otherwise you’ll have some difficulty with vertices intersecting.
Hope this makes some sense. After you give it a quick try you’ll see it a bit more clearly.
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Hi Todd,
Glad you found a workaround.
In general, targa (.tga) files are an uncompressed image file. Most times you will find them as a still image that has been created in Photoshop or another graphics program. Very occasionally you will come across a targa sequence. This is a sequence of individual targa stills that have been output to create an animation similar to what you would see in a quicktime movie.
As far as the design work I do, targa and .tiff images provide the best quality, as well as the option to include an alpha channel. I’m pretty sure that’s across the board for most graphic designers and editors.
The other popular file option is jpeg. In most cases, jpeg images are highly compressed and aren’t even a second best choice to .tga or .tiff images.
There’s some helpful and technical info about these file types on wikipedia.com and elsewhere on the web.
In the end, I would say that you will definitely be doing alot of work with targas as you move forward. The good news is that you will find nothing mysterious about these files. They work the same way as most other image files you will have in After Effects.
Best of luck,
Bob
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Hi Todd,
If your .tga(Targa) files are separate from your clip, you can work directly with them as additional layers in AE.
From what I understand, you want to make changes to the logo that is already in a composited clip. Ideally, you would need to have that logo as a separate element in its own layer. You can maybe use a mask to isolate the logo from the other elements in the clip (but that all depends on any overlapping of images).
You will encounter some limits as to what you can do with the logo if it is not a separate element.
Hope I understood you correctly on your post. If not, you can fire some more info at me and I ma be able to help further.
Bob
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Here’s a tutorial on the cow that will probably help….
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/armstrong_trent/textreflections.php
You’ll probably have to play around with your reflection source to get the right effect, but this should get you headed in the right direction
Bob