[John Cuevas]

Why can’t you set your first countdown to start at 6 hours, how have you set it up?

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
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“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

Make 2 and stitch them together in Premiere.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

Great effects and final product. Reminded me a lot of Tudor “Ted” Jelescu’s work, here and here..

Thanks for posting that.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

Can’t say this this is exactly how this was created but it looks to me like a combination of a compound blur and compound transition to create that effect. Both those effects are created by using other layers drive the blur and transition.

I created a simple composition to make a similar effect using a precomp with fractal noise, add a circular feathered mask with the expansion parameter keyframed. I dropped this into a master caster with the text layer, added compound blur and compound transition and pointed them to the fractal noise precomp. Finally I messed with the parameters a bit to get the look closer. Take a look at my project, it should give you a pretty good starting point in recreating this effect to your satisfaction.

6851_compoundblurtransition.aep.zip

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

I’d use the shape tool and add a repeater to it. Like this: 6850_shaperepeater.aep.zip

Andrew Devis has a lot of Shape Tutorials, that will help you create/refine the look you are trying to achieve.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

It seems to also have the standard -48 to 12 on the other side. I would advice, don’t do audio in AE. At most, I might bring in some audio to make sure I’m hitting the beat or word(kinetic typography), but it’s not an audio program, do expect it to have much in the way of audio controls.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

Exactly what part is tripping you up, are you unhappy with the result, or is totally not working?

Here’s a couple of tutorials on morphing using masks that cover most of what you need to know for this technique, check them out and if you have more specific questions, let us know:

Morph Text From Regular to Bold – Adobe After Effects tutorial

Using Pixel Motion to create morphs: Simple Morph

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

Try creating a new comp-sized solid, draw your mask path on that layer and copy and paste it to your solid or shape. It should jump to the start of the mask.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

Glad you found that script. The first place I checked when I read your question was AEScripts, but I overlooked that one…glad you got it worked out.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

Couldn’t you set up the 100’s of comps, select them all from the project window, press “shift+cntl+/” to load them into the render queue and then just use a couple of templates for your Render settings and output modules.

If you click all the comps in the render queue(and have templates made), they will all be selected to start, so click your template for “Render Settings” and they all receive that template. Next go to the first comp, and click on the “Outlet Module” to highlight it(don’t open it). Scroll down and click “Outlet Module” to highlight that one, now select your template and all will receive the same output. Done

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.