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Today I'm going to show you how to create some random moving type "ghost look-a-like".
We are going to create this effect without any use of keyframes just with Expressions.
Before we go to work, here an explanation about Expressions ;)
What are Expressions?
After so much theory let's move to the fun part, let's create something cool.
- As always let start with a new composition (320x240) and 6secs of length
- Using the Horizontal type tool type something in ( I've used twodded), ensure that your type is white, this will improove the effect later on.
You can also use other colors, but I think for the beginning is white a good choice.
Here's what you should have now
- As a next step let's create a new composition with the same settings, to make things easier just drag the fist made composition to the "new comp" button.
- Apply to the nested compostion the Fast Blur Effect. You can find it under
Effect -> Blur & Sharpen -> Fast Blur Leave the settings as they are for now.
- Next step is to duplicate this layer twice, so that we have at the end 3 layers. To make things a little bit more organized, rename the layers to "1 wiggle" "2 wiggle" and "3 wiggle" without the parenteses starting from the bottom.
Here a little screenshot as a helping hand ;)
We are going to create this effect without any use of keyframes just with Expressions.
Before we go to work, here an explanation about Expressions ;)
What are Expressions?
An expression is a statement that produces values for a specific parameter. The simplest expression would be just a number:
6;
Obviously, this kind of expression isn’t very useful — you’d be much better off just setting the parameter to 6 directly. A slightly more useful expression would be something like:
rotation;
When evaluated, this statement will return the value of rotation for the current layer at the current time. This return value, or result, will then be used for whatever parameter the expression is attached to. If applied to a layer’s opacity parameter, this expression would make the layer’s opacity change in sync with its rotation: when the rotation was 30 degrees, the opacity would be set to 30%, etc..
Expressions use the JavaScript language and syntax (an industry-standard language commonly used for web development, and for which there are many helpful books). Javascript includes a rich set of tools for creating more complex expressions, including, of course, the basic math operations:
opacity*10;
This expression is slightly more sophisticated, but still very simple. Its result is the value of opacity for the current layer at the current time, multiplied by ten. Since opacity has a range of zero to 100, the results of this expression will range from zero to 1,000. These results will be used for whatever parameter to which you've applied the expression.
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Obviously, this kind of expression isn’t very useful — you’d be much better off just setting the parameter to 6 directly. A slightly more useful expression would be something like:
rotation;
When evaluated, this statement will return the value of rotation for the current layer at the current time. This return value, or result, will then be used for whatever parameter the expression is attached to. If applied to a layer’s opacity parameter, this expression would make the layer’s opacity change in sync with its rotation: when the rotation was 30 degrees, the opacity would be set to 30%, etc..
Expressions use the JavaScript language and syntax (an industry-standard language commonly used for web development, and for which there are many helpful books). Javascript includes a rich set of tools for creating more complex expressions, including, of course, the basic math operations:
opacity*10;
This expression is slightly more sophisticated, but still very simple. Its result is the value of opacity for the current layer at the current time, multiplied by ten. Since opacity has a range of zero to 100, the results of this expression will range from zero to 1,000. These results will be used for whatever parameter to which you've applied the expression.
After so much theory let's move to the fun part, let's create something cool.
- As always let start with a new composition (320x240) and 6secs of length
- Using the Horizontal type tool type something in ( I've used twodded), ensure that your type is white, this will improove the effect later on.
You can also use other colors, but I think for the beginning is white a good choice.
Here's what you should have now
- As a next step let's create a new composition with the same settings, to make things easier just drag the fist made composition to the "new comp" button.
- Apply to the nested compostion the Fast Blur Effect. You can find it under
Effect -> Blur & Sharpen -> Fast Blur Leave the settings as they are for now.
- Next step is to duplicate this layer twice, so that we have at the end 3 layers. To make things a little bit more organized, rename the layers to "1 wiggle" "2 wiggle" and "3 wiggle" without the parenteses starting from the bottom.
Here a little screenshot as a helping hand ;)
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