Time Filter Text Effect - Adobe After Effects Tutorial

Jacquelin Vanderwood 1 Create some text in Photoshop and import into AE.  2 Let us apply a Scatter filter, a Blur filter, and set the Position. Animate the text moving down out of sight. Set the Blur filter first by using Unsharp Mask. 3 Set Scatter as well. 4 Select all the keyframes and move over 2 frames and set the last keyframes at frame 28. Note how the text drops straight down out of sight. 5 Create a white to black gradient map and import. 6 Create a new Composition. Drop in the text composition we just worked on and drop in the gradient map. Hide the gradient map by clicking on the eye. 7 With the text layer selected, apply Time Displacement. Go to 2 sec keyframe and press V to set beginning of range 8 Set the Time Displacement Layer to the gradient. 9 Set Max Displacement Time (sec) to .5. While working on the piece you can set the Time Resolution low because of time constraints, then when you are done, crank up the resolution. 10 Your text should now drop off the screen with the white part of the gradient underlying the first part of the text dropping first. Copyright 2002, Jacquelin Vanderwood, All Rights Reserved