Hello guys! Today I made some basic tutorial in After Effects: Flame Text.
You can also make it too just follow the step by step tutorial below:
- 1st open your After Effects application.
- Then, click File.
- After that, chose New Composition.
- Name your composition with any name you want.
- Then follow these settings:
Preset: HDV/HDTV 720 25
Width: 1280px
Height: 720px
Pixel Aspect Ratio: Square Pixels
set frame rate to 25
Full resolution
Duration = 0:00:10:00
Background anything you want.
- At the lower left panel, Right click and click New then Text. Put anything you want there. I created 3 texts but it's up to you to decide how many you want, even just 1.
- Select all 3 texts then Right click > Pre-composed.
- You can then add a name to your composition, I named it "Fire text". Then select "Move all attribute into the new composition" then click ok.
- At the bottom left side double click Fire Text.
- Then go to the menu bar across the top click the composition tab.
- Set your composition settings like this:
- From the bottom-left part again select all 3 texts (if you create only 1 text just right click on it) and choose pre-compose again and name it anything you want.
- Now go to menu bar at the top then click file > import > file.
- Import a 'fire' image (any fire image you have will do). Here's what I used in this turorial (credits to owner):
- In the project panel is where you will see your imported files, drag it down to composition panel at the bottom left.
- Go to effects then preset and search for motion tile.
- Drag the motion tile effects and drop it to your fire image then change the output width to 600 then press enter:
- It should look like this:
- Now click the clock named tile center and at the bottom-right part set the time like this::
- I set mine at 8 seconds:
- Then go back to tile center change it to 2000:
- Right-click the fire image and then click pre-composed:
- Add a name to your composition then click the move all attributes in new composition then click ok:
- Now drag the fire image and drop it at the bottom of your text
- It should look like this:
- Now select the fire image composition make sure it's selected then go to menu option click layer >track matte > alpha matte:
- And now the surface of the text are now the fire image composition.
- After than go to effects and presets and search for cc blobbylize. Drag the the blobbylize effect:
- Then drop it here:
- Follow these settings:**
- Go to effects and presets search for cc glass:
- Drag and drop to cc panel then follow these settings:
- Right click on the arrow New > click adjustment layer:
- Select the adjustment layer then on the menu bar click effects > color correction > canvas:
- Just set it when you're satisfied in the colors:
- Select all of them then right click > pre composed:
Go to file> export> add to render Queue:
- Set your file's destination then click save:
- You are now done making your Flaming Text!
Bonus!
First Open the menu bar then click File > Import > Video Frames to Layer.
Go to video file you want to convert then select it then click load after:
Follow these settings then click ok:
On menu bar again click file > save for Web & Devices:
Click save and now you are done converting a short video to GIF: