apparently it has been a while…you just set the position keyframe on the text at the start…go to a few seconds in and drag it to where you want it to end, then use your pen tool to drag out the spline of those points and the rest should be easy
the adjustment layer does not need to be 3d. just link the magnify center to your motion path..or animate it by hand…or make the size of the magnification as big as the whole layer and then animate a mask on that layer
hmmm…is your screen true colors? It could be that you or him are working in 32 bits and not 16 and thats throwing the colors off. or maybe he does not have that 709 profile on his computer..Lumetri is the best color correction effect these days…my opinion..try using that instead maybe