OTish... AE

[Matthew Guemple]

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
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