Advice

[Spency]

Is there a plugin for AE that would allow me to do this zooming effect, also does anyone know what font that is?: http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/iamlegendisolation/large.html (opening title)

Using the scaling with keyframes yields pretty crap results, and looks fairly choppy when altering speeds.

[Larry Rutledge]

I use scaling for zooming text effects in AE with no problem. You might want to try selecting the first and last keyframe, the right click and change the keyframe property to logarithmic, seems to help for such extreme zooms.


Here's a tutorial you might want to check out. It's not the exact same effect, but it's doing something similar enough you might be able to use what you learn from it to solve your problem.

http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials.html?id=26

[tcindie]

Easiest solution would be to make it a 3d layer and move it in 3d space to make it larger or smaller. Then you can apply motion blur, depth of field, and use opacity for when (if) it gets far enough away you don't want to see it anymore.. fade it out.

[Spency]

Hey, thanks that worked perfectly. I'm also having trouble with the smoke effect of the text. I tried layer of cloudy fractal noise, then used compound arithmetic and compound blur. Its similar however, not quite. In the trailer, the smoke seems to bleed a bit more. Recommendations?

[Neil Rowe]

you can use the create outlines or autotrace commands to get auto masks from your letters, and then expand and feather the masks to encompass more than the original letter shape which will allow you to apply the effect to a seperate layer with more of a bleed outwards from the letters instead of just within thier original space. or you can use a duplicate layerof the text with "glow" or a similar effect applied which will extend the text layers alpha outwards from the original outline of the text and allow you to precomp that layer and use it as a luma or alpa matte for your smoke effect so that the smoke will bleed out from the letters more. anyway.. theres a bunch of ways to make it bleed out/extend out from the original outline of the text more ..these are just a couple quick ways to do it. either way, you just keyframe the mask expansion or the glow type effect to grow over time when you want the smoke to extend and bleed out more.