[John Cuevas]

The problem with Whatdafont is the amount of extremely similiar fonts, if you don’t know it’s nearly impossible to find the exact one. If you don’t need exactly that font, one that’s VERY similiar is HelviticaNeue LT 97 Condensed.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
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[John Cuevas]

If you can save the project back to CS6, you could upload it and I would take a look. Otherwise if you could post a screen grab of your timeline, with the track matte panel onscreen, and what effects you have on layers showing that would be helpful.

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]

Just use a monospaced font

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]

Place the particles under the light source and change the particle layer’s track matte to luma matte. You may need to fudge this a bit if you are using actual 3D lights in AE, by pre-comping them, or using trapcode lux.

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]

Unfortunately, the only way to remove the text is some sort of cloning/painting.

It sounds like you are trying to make a motion menu? With some video clips/music from the movie that plays when you first start the DVD? I would just suggest using different shots that don’t have text. Cause removing it from a VHS source would take forever.

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 this free preset: Amortype 2.0 Watch the tutorial, it will show you how to remove/adjust the defaults. In that video it looks like it just uses scale, so you just need set position to 0, unlink the scale and set it to 100,0,100 then uncheck the random colors option. Then adjust the frequency and you should be pretty close.

Here’s my quick attempt at it: 8234_scaleup.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]

Moving the layer on z space doesn’t really work with roughen edges. There’s a couple of tricks you can do to get it to stick, but nothing that will allow you to move along z-space and maintain sharpness—unless you create incredibly large layer, apply roughen edges and then scale down only, never scale past 100%

Courtesy of Kevin Camp:

roughen edges doesn’t really stick to the layer like many other effects. it has it’s own offset value that kind of maintains a center point for the fractal texture that is distorting the layer…

you can use an expression to link the offset to the layer’s position so that they move together (and apear static).

adding this expression to the offset property in the roughen edges effect would work for position:

transform.position*400/effect("Roughen Edges")("Scale")

if you adjust the layer’s position the roughen edges should stick. it will not work with rotation or scale, though the layer’s scale could probably get worked into the expression.

an easier way is to add the transform effect after the roughen edges effect, and use the transform effect’s properties to do the animation. then it sticks no matter what.

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]

To me that looks like something that was done in 3D program. If you have C4D, you could probably make that with a cloner, bend deformer, cartoon shader and animating some lights. Not sure if I’ve seen a tutorial for that, but if you do some google searches for those terms you should find enough to get you started.

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]

Always happy to help, come back if you run into any specific problems.

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]

3. Is there any effects where I can crop a particular video specifically like a boy of playing. So only that part I can put without background of the video and I can add my different background in special effects?

This is called rotoscoping. And depending on your footage, there are different ways to approach it. One method would be to use the Rotobrush, here’s a good tutorial on how that works: Isolating a Subject with Roto Brush

1 and 2 can be done knowing how to manipulate 3D in AE, but those are pretty advanced & tricky techniques.
Here’s a PDF for #1, https://www.adobe.com/uk/motion/tips/aft5card/pdfs/aft5card.pdf

This script from Dan Ebberts might help also: https://www.motionscript.com/design-guide/invisible-facing-away.html

If I find something for #2, I’ll post.

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.