I am late to the party, catching up to a few weeks of emails…

The effect in the trailer is probably a write-on that has the matte grunged up or the edge roughened.
It looks effective because in the trailer the letters are revealed in a natural order, and also because it has been composited onto the paper BG and so everything feels integrated.
If you want to play around with something more complex than a simple gradient wipe, there's a project template linked somewhere here:

http://provideocoalition.com/czwar/video/creating-a-watercolour-wipe-in-after-effects

And plenty of video of me waffling on about how it all works and so on.
You could download the project file, use the text as your source, an old paper texture for your background, and have something rendered in a few minutes that would look comparable to the video you have linked to.



-Chris

On 31/12/2013, at 2:04 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 “Follow a trail of secret letters…”

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The Room Two Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbGaddIZzVs
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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


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