[John Cuevas]

Set up all the animations, moves, everything on your text in the final comp. Select them all and move them into a precomp(shift+cntl+C). Now change the track matte to the solid to inverted alpha.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“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]

Have you tried playing with fractal noise…perhaps something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaH_Z_fc4xs

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

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—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

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[John Cuevas]

Yeah, that’s what I meant, Freeform Pro, not shapeshifter.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“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 think there are a few methods that could get you those results. For plugins, Trapcode Form, and Mettle Shapeshifter both could produce those results.

If you want to stay within AE, I you would want to precomp some type white/black map and then use the distort – displacement map effect, maybe in combination with some other of the distort effects(bezier warp, mesh warp, bulge).

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“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]

Please post a screen grab of your timeline and comp window.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“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]

That doesn’t really make sense if you have 2 audio tracks. If you can save back to CS6 and collect, zip the files and upload(last icon in the reply dialogue), I would take a look at the project.

Otherwise do a screen grab or capture of what is happening with any changed layers twirled open.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“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]

Your link seems to be broken.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“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]

Looks like a combination of the roughen edges effect(creates deterioration over time) & glow.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“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]

Much of that was probably done with Shape Layers, where you can manipulate the end cap a little more.

Link is to some really good tutorials by Andrew Devis

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“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]

FYI – you could probably do it with the default Particle Playground, but that is a tough particle emitter to use. And if you try particular and you have some specific questions come back and we can work through it in more detail.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

“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.