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Emitting fire from a graphic

Emitting fire from a graphic

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Emitting fire from a graphic

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- [Instructor] Those of you that are big into typography might recognize this villain here in the middle of the composition panel. That's right, it's the papyrus font. So in this video, we're actually going to light this on fire. All right? Let's get started. I'll select layer two here in the timeline and then go up under the Effect menu, go down to RG Trapcode, and choose Particular. Now once Particular is populated, let's click on the Designer button. Once you're in the Designer, go over to the preset area. Just hover over this arrow and I'll scroll through here so you can see exactly where I am. I'm in the Single System Presets, under Smoke & Fire. And the one I want to choose is hazy fire. So I'll just click on that once, and that's loaded into the scene, which looks great. And I can go ahead and click Apply, and that'll show me where the fire will appear here inside my composition panel. Now I'm not seeing it because my current time indicator is on frame zero. So let's move down…

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