Create a Flare and Light Streak Text Reveal

Jul 27th in Motion Graphics by Devin Northrup

Made popular in recent commercials, using light streaks to reveal text and logos is a great way to bring an extra punch to your productions.

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Author: Devin Northrup

Devin lives and goes to school on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii. He loves all things multimedia! He works doing freelance video, motion graphics, web and graphic design and more in addition to his day job at his university's communications department.

Requirement:
Trapcode Particular Plugin (download free trial here)
Trapcode Form Plugin (download free trial here)

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    Modisana July 27th

    That looks very neat… I like the simplicity of it… Nice work

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    Kevin July 27th

    When I first came in here, I thought of a whole other animation but I like this very much!!

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      yy July 31st

      ok great I love it very much

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    Stijn Jasper July 27th

    Looks great! :D

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    Siupej July 27th

    That looks great :) ..I’ll try it.

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    luantran July 27th

    Nice…

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    ABO July 27th

    nothing diffrent then the other tuts for making titles. also wud have looked better if at the beginning u added some motion blur to the text.
    nyway hope to see different work in the future.

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      peter pan August 31st

      do U have anyother tuts about making titles’s web?
      can you send me some wed add?
      i am a chinese student
      my e-mail add: zhang_0951@sina.com.cn
      thank u

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    Elie Romano July 27th

    Very Cool! keept the tuts coming!

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      Paul Saulnier September 1st

      hi buddie …im acierman …just checking to see who you are …nice to meet you

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    David W. July 27th

    Not bad. :D

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    Lo July 27th

    Looks cool.

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    Austin July 27th

    were did u get the sound effects?

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    Devin July 27th

    Sound effects are from videocopilot.net, designer sound effects. Great package!

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    Rafael Guerra July 27th

    cool effect. I don´t understand why you didn´t use the actual AeTut´s logo (lol) but the effect is very simple and ellegant.

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      Devin July 27th

      good point! ha ha ha! I’m always one to miss the obvious! I guess I over-thought that one! Thanks tho!

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    SF July 27th

    super tuts

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    lovesenario July 27th

    thank you

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    LD July 27th

    Very nice. Mahalo!

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    GC July 27th

    nice

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    GC July 27th

    NICE!!!

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    Dave July 27th

    Awsome work mate.

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    aaa July 28th

    Thx very much.
    I thought it was nice.
    But why i can’t download the tutorial?
    I in China.

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    fidget July 28th

    Aloha from the South Shore!

    Thanks for the tut.

    f~

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      Devin July 28th

      Aloha! :)

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    suugii July 28th

    wow wery ncie nice nice nice amazing wow great

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    Bj July 28th

    Very informational for a cool effect. nice work! :)

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    doh July 28th

    first of all, thanks for the tut.
    and i really liked all tuts on here but seriously..the size of the vid is way too big.
    i know this comment will not show up..but hell im sure you(the moderator) can see this, please reduced the file size please.

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    mz July 28th

    looks kinda like the sprint titles

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    tore July 28th

    why delete my massage?

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    djandrew July 28th

    COool !!

    Great tutorial but simple in the right way :)

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    José Carlos July 28th

    Very nice look, tnks tuts…

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    Loay July 28th

    I love this site
    Thank you very much

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    tailaday July 28th

    i love this site , but this tu is not much more effective.. means not much more vaste…….

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    noliebox July 28th

    thanks for this nice tuts..cheers…..from philippines

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    kantto July 29th

    why cannot download???

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    Billy July 30th

    ONE MASSIVE HINT FOR THIS TUTORIAL.

    As you may or may not have noticed, when you are using form to create a layer out of particles, the object of your layer is going to appear as partially transparent. If you watch Devin as he does this tutorial, you’ll notice that the appareance of his form layer ae box changes when it make it form. There is a solution to this thanks to Aharon Rabinowiz over at allbetsareoff.com (and of creativecow.com).

    Check out this tutorial:

    http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/videos/redgianttv-video.php?id=22

    and check out the sections around the 8 minute mark to see how to make your form layer completely opaque.

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      Devin July 31st

      Hey thanks for the comment! Thats true, that does happen to the layers, and I did notice that happened to mine. For this effect, I didn’t mind, but it definitely will make a difference for someone elses project. Its nice to have everyone’s help here to make everyone’s effects top notch! Thanks Billy!

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    Yousterjs August 1st

    How is this video compressed? so small file size for an hour of video at that quality, omg!

    please could someone tell me?

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    Ramirox August 3rd

    hello … I will let you know that I have a problem with trapcode form, try applying a layer that is a photo. png in (color and alpha) of the tab (layers maps) and it’s like not taking the form of the photo. . now expect a prompt response and thank you very much …
    and is a very good tutorial

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    Bluex August 4th

    hey can someone help me out? im struggling with the adding these trapcode pluggins

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      Devin August 4th

      trouble installing them?

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    Aly August 11th

    I have an illustrator file as my logo and im also having some trouble. When I apply the logo to my Clour and alpha layer I can see trapcode showing my logo in the background instead of a blank screen.

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      Devin August 20th

      maybe you didn’t pre-compose your logo layer?

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    sEdatiV August 12th

    where can i get trapcode preset? can someone tell me :D

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    Klas August 12th

    Thanks for the tutorial. As someone before me said I really liked the simplicity.
    Less is more as the saying goes!!

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    andrew August 26th

    Hey , first of all thanx for the tutorial.
    But i wanted to ask a question what programme do you use to record the video ? I am guessing that its not camatasi studio , because , when you type some thing there comes up a some kinda of a bar , with these simbols .

    What is that , and what are you using ?

    And sorry for my english!

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      Devin September 9th

      Thanks for watching! In answer to your question, I used ScreenFlow, for Mac. It has options to display all keystrokes made. I turn that on just in case I fail to mention any keyboard shortcuts as I explain the effect. The “,” is used for zooming out in the composition preview, for example. Hope that helps!

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    sharan August 31st

    sorry bro but ur video take much time time……very heavy …..

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    dude September 2nd

    very nice i love AE tuts

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    AustiSo September 5th

    Just like the new Sprint commercials, thanks for the tutorial.

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    changavar September 7th

    can anyone PLZ explain how to get this effect with form?!!
    im noob in ae :)

    really appreciated

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      changavar September 7th

      oOops i forgot the link !!

      http://www.vimeo.com/6045312

      its particular 2 and he actually explained in his page but i couldnt get it !
      can any1 plzzzz explain it for a basic user

      chears guys

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    Marc September 7th

    your player sucks, no offense, but I need like a super computer to run these damn videos.

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    beattie September 22nd

    very nice tut learnd a bit from it also heres my fail attempt at it
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTwsrxmXb4g

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    TE October 2nd

    where can i get the trapcode form effect?

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