Combining Effects with AEs Fractal Noise Effect

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Combining Effects with AE's Fractal Noise Effect

A CreativeCOW After Effects Video Tutorial

CreativeCOW presents Effecting the AE Fractal Noise Effect--Video Training by Aharon Rabinowitz

Aharon Rabinowitz
New York, USA

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In this tutorial, Creative Cow Leader Aharon Rabinowitz examines how to be more creative by combining different effects with AE's Fractal Noise.

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fractals
by Mark Keeler

great tut, got it working the first time, wow all sorts of cool things to do apply this to.

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cc glass defect
by philip heie

when i add the cc glass effect these two annoying green lines appears and i and i dont know how to get ride of them

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Combining Effects with AEs Fractal Noise Effect
by randolph azzopardi

10x mate that helped alot :)

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Combining Effects with AE's Fractal Noise Effect
by Aharon Rabinowitz

The short answer is look into Track Mattes or Mattes for short.

Mattes use one layer's transparency to cut out another layer.

I know I cover them in a few tutorials, including the original TV Look tutorial.

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Combining Effects with AE's Fractal Noise Effect
by Mohammed Ovais

Aharon,

Thanks for the tutorial. My question is regarding the part where you say that fractal noise can be used as background within text. How do you go about doing this? In fact how do you add mask around text characters?

Also Aharon, to make any text have a shiny metal feel to it, what effect would be suitable.

Thanks for all the help.

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