Dear Carl, 

Thanks for your kind suggestions. I understood the recodring of the sparkling part. But I am sorry the later part was not understood: Effects' >> "video effects' >> 'Chroma key'. 

I will be thankful if you are kind enough to show me at least by the picture. I am very bad with the Chroma part. 

Thanks.

Hi Anirban

Alternatively see if there are any suitable video loops here which you can overlay and reduce the transparency to give effects like this.

This is one of the Sparkles loops

John

Anirban,

Here's a quick test just with some still images:

The sparkles are on a track below (higher number) than the city lights so that it will appear in front. When the 'black box' effect is applied what is black in the image becomes transparent so you can see the city. Though it can be done, unfortunately the effect is not very convincing here. You'd need to have your sparkles restricted to the area near the title and even then the title itself is static.

Regards,

Carl

Anirban,

It's not really clear to me exactly what you want to achieve. I understood that you were asking for shiny text, but it seems to me that the text in your example is essentially static, with slow in/out fades. The effects appear to be light flashes in the background, for which Carl and John have made suggestions.

The text in your example seems to be blurred and high brightness, both easy to achieve in Effects > Video Effects. Or it could be that the whole video is low resolution, whether deliberately or otherwise.

If you really do want to make the text 'shine' with some flicker, then (as well as in/out fades) you could try adding one or more of these animation effects:

1. Add key frames in Size/Position, varying Size very slightly, experimenting until it suits.

2. Add key frames in Brightness/Contrast, varying Brightness, experimenting until it suits.

3. Add key frames in Sharpen, varying Sharpen, experimenting until it suits.

4. If you have it built in to MEP, use the 3D Maker with one of the pulsating templates and - you've guessed it - experiment!

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK

@Terry 

Hello Terry, I followed your instructions minutely. I have  also attached my screenshots of what exactly you asked me to do. But they dont help. Can you please have a look at my works and say whether they are the same what you exactly advised me to do for Size/Position, Brightness/Contrast and Sharpen.

Thanks. 

@ Carl, 

Hello Carl, I am sorry I could not do what exactly you asked meto do. I followed your instructions minutely. I have  also attached my screenshots of what exactly you asked me to do. But they dont help. 

Thanks and regards.

@Terry 

Hello Terry, I followed your instructions minutely.

Sorry, Anirban, but I don't think you have!

It's impossible to tell from those screenshots what KF settings you've made. But it doesn't seem that you experimented methodically as I emphasised.

For example, Brightness values should alternate between close to 100 and 50 and should be only a fraction of  a second apart. Use copy/paste to speed up insertion. And for the blurry effect I said you should use Sharpen, not Artistic Blur.

Perhaps at this stage you should concentrate on studying the basics before tackling fairly complex effects?

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK

Like Terry, I feel you haven't really done 'exactly..' and that a complex project is possible but requires a lot of patience and experimentation!

Certainly, from your screen shot, you have not yet applied the black box effect to your sparkle object. If that were done you would no longer see its rectangular outline but rather only the the star shapes against the city background.

I know the images are getting blurred, but I've copied your center section to two new location with the black box effect applied. Note at the top right you can see the city lights through the area, particularly evident above the 'CAT'. At the top left you can see through to the light colored wall as well.

Second point is that you shot shows that you have applied width and height adjustments to you image. This is OK to get the scale you want but will only be effective if you have no sparkle stars that go off the edge of the frame.

Just did a search for "sparkling stars" images on goggle. Lots of choices!

Please don't give up but, as Terry suggests, you might do well to play around with some simple tasks to build up your expertise.

Regards,

Carl