[Victor Nash]

Change your View to top view.. and you’ll see your focal point move when you adjust it.

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[Victor Nash]

if you want still clouds, just animate physics time factor from 1 to 0 around 1 second into the animation and the turn the winds to 0

[Victor Nash]

here are some settings to mess with. This is just me messin around.. be sure to play around with colour over life .. light blues whites
etc.. Plus let the particles build up for a second or two.. then orbit away.. Of course this is just me throwing something together.. feel free to alter to your needs..

EMITTER
particles/sec: 2000
particle type: sphere
Emitter X: 4000
Emitter Y: 50
Emitter Z: 4000

PARTICLE
Life/Sec: 2
Life Random: 50%
particle type: smokelet
Smokelet Feather: 60%
Size: 60
Size Random: 50%
Opacity: 50
Opacity Random: 50%
Set Colour: Over Life (play with light blues and white gradients, not too extreme)

PHYSICS
Air
Wind X: 300 (Play with your own direction, I just plopped this value in here 🙂
Turbulance Field
Scale: 4
Move with Wind: 100
Visibility
Near Start Fade: 20
Near Vanish:10

[Victor Nash]

or without ‘milli seconds”

//countdown clock in miliseconds
ClockStart = 05; //Start time in minutes
start = ClockStart*70; //start time in seconds
compTime = start – time;
eTime = Math.floor(compTime);
csec = Math.floor((compTime – eTime)*100);
hr = Math.floor(eTime/3600);
h1 = Math.floor(hr/10);
h2 = hr%10;
min = Math.floor((eTime – hr*3600)/60);
m1 = min;
m2 = min%10;
sec = eTime – hr*3600 – min*60;
s1 = Math.floor(sec/10);
s2 = sec%10;
m1 + ‘:’ + s1 + s2

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paste into source text..

//countdown clock in miliseconds
ClockStart = 05; //Start time in minutes
start = ClockStart*70; //start time in seconds
compTime = start – time;
eTime = Math.floor(compTime);
csec = Math.floor((compTime – eTime)*100);
ms1 = Math.floor(csec/10);
ms2 = csec%10;
hr = Math.floor(eTime/3600);
h1 = Math.floor(hr/10);
h2 = hr%10;
min = Math.floor((eTime – hr*3600)/60);
m1 = min;
m2 = min%10;
sec = eTime – hr*3600 – min*60;
s1 = Math.floor(sec/10);
s2 = sec%10;
m1 + ‘:’ + s1 + s2 + ‘.’ + ms1 + ms2

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Hey.. I never thought of that.. duh.

[Victor Nash]

Draw a mask over the dashed lines and copy the mask and paste the mask shape into the “write on” effects’ position property.. then select ‘reveal original source’. Change your spacing to .001 and adjust your brush size to match the thickness of the dashed line.

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Another way for great control and organization is to precomp each side so you can replace and update your footage without running into the risk of resizing,scale,masking etc… Build your “Box” with precomped layers. Have a camera parented to a 3d Null layer and then just animate your Null. Then you could ease the keyframes or Time Remap for time controlling.

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Make sure you have Render to Full, not just Inside or Outside

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Check out this tutorial.. You find using gradient layers useful for what you want to do

https://www.creativecow.net/articles/unguren_ben/shatter/index.html

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