[MacDV] OTish... AE

[James Asherman]

Matthew Guemple wrote:

> Is anyone on this list adept at AE?
> I am doing a title sequence for a friends short... I want to make the  
> title appear to be "blown out" like a candle... ie dissolve into a 
> puff  of smoke and then "blow" off screen... I can think of a couple 
> of ways  to do it - manually animating it, but am wondering if there 
> is a  plug-in that will just do it for me (and really well)
> I've not got a ton of experience with AE plug-ins so don't want to  
> spend the $200 on something that's not going to really do the job...
> Please advise...
> tia
> Contact me off-list if you'd prefer.
> M


If you use the "ripple" effect in  FCP (on your super) and change the 
center point and futz with the paramaters a bit, you can gett that look
with less work.
Jim