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Hello All, I would like to thank everyone for their assistance and help in answering the question. I have been able to recreate the effect as I wished thanks in no small part to the help provided here. I really like the look I have obtained so far but I wish to add a level of complexity that I think will make the effect even more dramatic but I do fear it will also make achieving the effect exponentially more time consuming and difficult to achieve so before I try to move forward I want to run this by to be corrected or directed about my assumptions and manner of solving the problem if at all possible. The desired effect: First, I have a gradient wipe with text emerging in a manner very similar to one on mention in the reference clip below. However, what I want as my final look is a gradient wipe that is applied on character at a time with slight temporal overlap. You might describe this as a gradient wipe that applies to one character of a text at a time in linear succession until the entire line of text is revealed. So, suppose the text was... "In former times and ages past ..." Rather than the gradient wipe applying on the entire string at the same time I would like to apply the gradient wipe on the character "I" and then "n" and then "f" etc. in fairly rapid succession across the whole string of text. My actual text has over 40 characters and I conceivably will have more to do. I can't imagine having to create a separate text layer for each character and a separate gradient wipe for each of these layers but this is all I can think that would work. I know given the duration of the gradient wipe I didn't want to merely apply a linear wipe "on top" of the gradient wipe because the underlying effect of the gradient wipe will almost be complete on the entire line of text by the time the linear wipe would apply to the last character in this line of text and that is not the kind of timing or effect. Does anyone have a suggestion or tip for me to look into in order to achieve what I am taking about with out an enormous proliferation of text layers and gradients. Thank You, Dave The effect is simple enough (with some pitfalls) that I thought it might be easier for you to just look at a project, so I made one for you. http://we.tl/O4b1fneZmt Important notes: I converted the text to vectors since you might not have the font... you can apply the Gradient wipe effect to licve text, however. Also, the Gradient map need to be pre-composed... gradient wipe can only read the pixels of another layer, not any affects applied locally. Enjoy, Brian ------ Original Message ------ From: "Jim Curtis" <jpcurtis@me.com> To: "After Effects Mail List" <AE-List@media-motion.tv> Sent: 12/30/2013 10:29:00 AM Subject: Re: [AE] Specific Text Effect >Make a gradient map with a bottom layer of fractal noise (adjust the >Contrast so that you have luma values from 0-100), and add a top layer >of a linear gradient, set to screen transfer mode. > >Use that as the Gradient Layer for Gradient Wipe. > > > >On Dec 30, 2013, at 9:12 AM, Michele Yamazaki <michele@toolfarm.com> >wrote: > >> Hi Dave >> >> There are a couple of ways to do this. I've used a gradient wipe to >>create this type of effect. Lay out your text with the background. >>Animate a gradient layer on a solid layer(black will reveal no pixels, >>white will reveal all pixels). You can use any filter or combination >>of filters that gives you a black and white layer. You may need to >>pre-compose the gradient. I don't recall. Apply the Gradient Wipe >>filter to the text layer and select the gradient layer in the effect >>controls. Keyframe the transition as needed. I'm not at my computer >>now, so hopefully I'm close! >> >> Michele Yamazaki >> Toolfarm.com >> >> >>> On Dec 30, 2013, at 10:04 AM, Dave <aftereffects-list@gem3.com> >>>wrote: >>> >>> Hello All, >>> >>> From about 7 seconds to 8 second into the trailer below this text >>>appears on a document βFollow a trail of secret lettersβ¦β >>> >>> βββββββββββββββββββββ >>> The Room Two Trailer >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbGaddIZzVs >>> βββββββββββββββββββββ >>> >>> QUESTION: My question is does any one know how or can suggest an >>>approach that would achieve a very similar look and feel as text >>>appears on a document? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Dave >>> >>> >>> +---End of message---+ >>> To unsubscribe send any message to <ae-list-off@media-motion.tv> >> >> +---End of message---+ >> To unsubscribe send any message to <ae-list-off@media-motion.tv> > > >+---End of message---+ >To unsubscribe send any message to <ae-list-off@media-motion.tv> +---End of message---+ To unsubscribe send any message to <ae-list-off@media-motion.tv> |
