Overlaying Smoky Text Onto Actual Smoke

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Overlaying Smoky Text Onto Actual Smoke
by Robert Page on May 2, 2012 at 11:09:02 pm

Hi there.

I'm using AE CS5.5 and trying to make some text emerge from some smoke so it looks like it's the man making the text with the smoke.

I'm trying to overlay this:

Onto this:

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Love

Bob

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Re: Overlaying Smoky Text Onto Actual Smoke
by Tudor "Ted" Jelescu on May 3, 2012 at 7:17:41 am

I would create a mask with animated edges. A combination of the actual smoke revealing the text footage and an animated (to match the way the smoke moves) feathered mask applied to a white layer and underneath with expansion on a layer that has fractal noise animated on to match the speed of the moving smoke.

Tudor "Ted" Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist

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