Now, I want to actually animate this text in.
I want to do some very simple but pretty retro at the same time.
The way that I want this to play out is the logo comes in,
let me switch to half resolution so this renders a little quicker.
I want the logo to fly in and then probably right about this point
is where I want the radical texts to basically wipe in from left to right.
That's why I'm going to align at the foreground texts layers in points.
I'm going to select those two layers and press
the left bracket to shift those two layers in points to my play head.
Then I'll jump back into my Foreground Text Source and create this transition in.
The way I'm going to do it is stupid simple.
I'm just going to make a new solid layer call it Matte.
I make it a gray color so I can actually see it and click "Okay."
I'm going to parent that to the text while holding shift so that
it inherits all the transformations that's already been
applied to the text layer and then bring up the position.
I'm going to use this as a Track Matte to reveal the text.
I'm just going to grab the Track Matte column and
change it from No Track Matte to Alpha Matte.
That way it's only going to show up as the solid is passing over it.
But I don't want this to be a straight sharp transition.
I want it to have some softness to it.
I'm going to add a Fast Box Blur to
that Matte layer and just increase the blur a little bit.
Then I'll back this up before the text layer,
set a position keyframe.
This should go by pretty quick,
maybe 10 frames in total.
I'll go forward 10 frames,
shift this over so that it reveals all of the text and then just play this back.
Very simple but I think it goes along with the retro effect,
so we're going to call that good.
If I go back into the Foreground Text Neon,
you can see that that is preserved there.
Now we have that text being revealed right here.
But there is an issue.
We can see that text and the reflection.
That's because I haven't changed the timing inside of the reflection source comp.
At three seconds and 12 frames is where I have it start in the main comp.
That's exactly the same spot I needed to change here.
Three seconds,12 frames, left square bracket with
that layer selected now that will be revealed in the exact same place.
Now that should line up. It does.
Now I want to make that transition just a little bit more interesting by adding
a nice light flare at the starting point of where this transition is happening.
It looks like a nice light burst as it's being revealed.
Let's go back into the Neon comp.
I'm just going to duplicate one of these and remove the effects.
Quick way to do that is selecting the layer and pressing
"Control Shift E or Command Shift T ",
on a Mac and change the blend mode back to
normal just for now and on my source layer name,
but if I click on that,
it'll just switch back to what I had already renamed the layers.
I actually want to pre-compose this one more time.
I'm going to press "Control Shift C" or "Command Shift C" on a Mac.
I'll rename this Foreground Text Flare.
Leaving all the attributes is fine.
Click "Okay," and I'll rename the actual comp Flare as well.
Now if I jump into this,
we just have the Foreground Text Source as a pre-comp and that's what we need.
What I'll do to isolate the front part of this motion is just duplicate the layer,
shift it forward in time by one frame.
Just click and drag that one frame forward.
Now I just have two copies of this layer offset in time by one frame.
Next I'll take the lower layer and change the Track Matte to Alpha Inverted Matte.
That will leave me with basically the difference between the two layers.
It's subtracting the second layer that's offset forward in time one frame.
But it's not doing it perfect job.
We're still seeing a few semi-transparent pixels.
To fix that, I'm going to grab this front layer and add a Simple Choker effect.
Click and drag that out.
Instead of choking it inwards to make the Alpha Channel shrink,
I'm going to change it to a negative number to expand it.
That will hide all of the semi-transparent pixels.
Let me turn this layer on and solo it so you can see what's happening.
With the simple choker off it's a no more layer, but with it on.
If I turn on the transparency grid,
you can see that backing this up as basically expanding the Alpha Channel.
We only needed to do a tiny little bit
because of those semi-transparent pixels being so small.
But now it's basically making those transparent pixels go away.
We're left with just this little section of the text revealing.
Now that we have that we can use it to generate a Flare back in our Neon comp.
This is again right on top.
It's not being composited at all I change this blend mode normal,
but actually I'm going to switch that back to Add and add
another Fast Box Blur and soften this up.
But this time instead of going horizontally and vertically,
I only want to go vertically.
If I change that blurred dimensions to vertical,
now its going to streak out upwards.
I want to use that same color as before.
I'm going to grab the fill color copy
with Control C from this other glow layer and paste it.
Maybe we'll make it just a little bit less saturated so it's a little brighter.
Add A levels and crush the Alphas so we can shape this Flare a little bit more.
Bring the Alpha Channel up a little on that side and down just a little bit on this side.
I don't want to lose those streaks.
But basically I can now play with crushing the Alpha and increasing the blur amount.
As I increase that blur,
I can back off this handle right here to get more of that Flare visible.
It's now we've got this nice vertical flare.
I'm going to rename it Flare 1 and duplicate it one more time.
Maybe increase the saturation of this one,
make it a little bit more red.
I'm just arbitrarily changing all these values.
But basically I just want to make it bigger
and I want it to make the Flare a little bit brighter.
Playing around with these values until we get something that looks like that.
But just tweaking those values gives me something that just
generates this nice streaking flare over the front of that reveal.
If I go back to the main comp and preview this,
we can see how that looks in context.
That's just a really cool what can affect it
shows up in the reflection of the text as well.
I think it just really fits the vibe of this overall Chrome look.