From the course: Particular 4 for After Effects Essential Training
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Working with Streaklet
From the course: Particular 4 for After Effects Essential Training
Working with Streaklet
- [Instructor] Streaklets are a kind of particle that allow you to create streaks of flowing light to move through your scenes. And that's exactly what we're going to create here in this video. So we'll start by looking at all the elements in the timeline. I have a background. I have Steaks outlined type here, so we don't have to worry about anybody having a font. And then we have our Particles Layer Solid, which we will add particular to. And then we have this null object, which, if we zoom out here you'll see it's just animated to fly across the word Streaks. So if I select P to open the position data, you can see I have two position key frames. I'm pretty sure everybody knows how to create position free frames. Once you have those set up, if you just click on any of the key frames, you can click and drag on the handles to change the motion path. Okay, so if you haven't done so already, make sure you have layer one selected and press P until you can see the position revealed. Now I…
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