[Fabiano Peres]

Hi there, where are you from? I’m from Brazil…

Why don’t you try to work on a bigger screen comp size, and when the projects is ready, you reduce the size of the comp before the render?

Press Ctrl+K to change it, anytime you need.

I hope it helps.

[Fabiano Peres]

If I understood well, it’s like an explosion of lots of v

[Fabiano Peres]

Hi there.

Take a look at this video tutorial, maybe you can do it with the lines you want.
https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=2&page=https://www.creativecow.net/articles/hansen_jaysen/growing/index.html

If this is not what do you want, go to https://www.trapcode.com/products_particular.html
and take a look at Motionpath Lightpath video. It was created using Particular.

I hope it helps.

[Fabiano Peres]

Just apply the light effect to the text layer. If you have its background transparent, the light will not affect it. If the background is not transparent yet, use Photoshop to make it and go to After Effects.

It’s easier than you think.

[Fabiano Peres]

Select the point you want, press Crtl+Shift+D it will slpit the layer in two, then go to the second one and trim it. But of course if you have a lot of frames to cut, Premiere is the best option.

I holp it helps.

[Fabiano Peres]

Do you have a sample of the effect you want to create? A movie clip or even a picture?

[Fabiano Peres]

Thanks for the help, I meant for “flatten text” something like a very thin text, no depht… sorry for my English, I’m brazilian and sometimes I write funny thing, because I don’t know the right way to say it… I’m still learning.

Thank for the help.

[Fabiano Peres]

Clip black and white as I told you right before, it will solve the problem.

[Fabiano Peres]

If your effect from Photoshop does not appear on After effects, you can on Photoshop create a new empty layer and merge it to the layer with the effect, by doing this, After will recognize all effects that Photoshop creates.

Very easy. no limitations.

[Fabiano Peres]

Well, I haven’t seen it before, but try to select all the keyframes, but the first and the last ones, right-click them and seletc “Rove acroos time”.

I’m not sure if it will solve the problem, but it’s worth trying.