[John Cuevas]

If you had some ink bleeds you could just put them over the picture and change the pictures track matte to “Luma Matte”.

From there I would precompose both layers and bring them into my final composition. If you are using a camera to move around, just hit the 3d switch and place your precomp where you need it.

If you are moving the background texture with position keyframes, just parent the precomp to the background texture. Adjusting the transfer mode will also help to sell the effect.

Finally you can easily create your own ink bleeds. Drag your picture on to the create new comp button. Add a comp sized solid above your picture and turn off it’s opacity. Now on the solid layer create a rough mask around the area that you want revealed.

Turn the solids opacity back on and increase the feather to 80 to start(adjust to taste) and over 1 second animate the math expansion property from a negative number large to make your entire solid disappear to a full reveal.

Add the effect Stylize > Roughen Edges and change the settings to Roughen Color, Border to around 50, Edge Sharpness to .1 and Complexity to 1. You might want to add keyframes the evolution property as the mask expands.

Now change the picture track matte to alpha and you should be good to go. I uploaded an example project showing the process: 3394_inkbleedexamplesfolder.zip

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[John Cuevas]

The animator presets are customizable, just a matter of learning what you need to tweak.

Start with a new text layer and apply the “Fly in from Bottom” preset.

Twirl open Text > Animator 1 > Range Selector > Advanced.

Unclick the “Start” stopwatch and change the “End” to 33 & “Offset” to “-33”.

Change the shape to “Ramp Up” and the “Ease Low” to 50%.

Last click the “Randomize Order” switch to “On”

In your example you had the text moving straight up, if you want that, change the position of the text animator to “0”

As I need to actually do the steps while I’m typing, I created an animation preset of what I did. Install this and drop it on your text and it should accomplish what you want and now you know what I adjusted to create it, you should be able to tweak it to what you need.

3393_textflyinfrombottomrandom.ffx.zip

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Thinkck.com

[John Cuevas]

Distort > Offset

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[John Cuevas]

Try giving the auto contrast and auto levels a shot. You may need to use multiple layers and masks so as to not effect areas that are okay.

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[John Cuevas]

Switch to the paragraph tab and change the second column to 0. That is the “Add space before paragraph” adjustment.

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Thinkck.com

[John Cuevas]

I think you should bring this post to the AE Expressions forum. Ebberts and the gang there are great at finding solutions to problems like this.

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Thinkck.com

[John Cuevas]

You are going to need to provide more information. Is this one word of text balanced at the center point? Is it multiple words on a balance scale?

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[John Cuevas]

I think you are looking for this tutorial: https://library.creativecow.net/articles/birnholz_rob/red_giant_3d_montage.php

Also check out this “Pay what you want” 3D layer distributor script at AE tutorials. Very handy for what you want to accomplish.

https://aescripts.com/3d-layer-distributor/

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Thinkck.com

[John Cuevas]

I’m not familiar with Smart Objects so I can’t help you there. But to your second question. Highlight your composition or click on it’s tab in the timeline window and press “cntl + K”. Then select the 1080 preset that matches how you will be working in FCP, then resize and reposition your elements.

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Thinkck.com

[John Cuevas]

Not sure about making it look exactly like that, but here’s a free script that will give it a 1980’s 8 bit look. https://aescripts.com/lcdeffect/

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Thinkck.com