This type look is based on graphics from the trailer for Premonition. The background is some stock smoke footage with soft feathered masks and the Wave Warp effect. Replace the text in the “text” comp and adjust the range settings for the text — POSITION 1 for the top line and POSITION 2 for the bottom line. Watch movie Download project
To measure the duration between 2 keyframes or Layer Markers in Adobe After Effects, hold down the Option (Alt) key and click the first and then the second keyframe or Layer Marker. The Info panel (Window > Info) will display the duration between them. Cool.
You may have been wondering what the ProAnimator Importer plug-in that ships with ProAnimator actually does. It’s actually a great creative tool, allowing you to harness the fast and powerful ProAnimator animation features and apply them to your After Effects 3D layers. The eyeball image is by Martin Walls (http://www.sxc.hu). Watch tutorial
Here’s a simple sparks preset created using Trapcode Particular.
This project uses a simple index expression to offset the text layers and nulls to control the distribution using Expression Control sliders. This allows them to be freely distributed with one null while setting keyframes for Y-Position and Rotation with another. Download project
