Animate light rays on object

Hello, I'm fairly new to Motion and need some help.
I have applied the Light Rays filter to a vector logo I have created. I'm stuck on getting the light rays to animate.
I know its probably dead simple, but I can't seem to figure it out.

This button is your friend. Set your starting parameters, move your timeline marker to the desired end point, hit record and set your end parameters.

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Hi all,
I have a logo (created in Illustrator) that I want to use in the intro of a video (like a spalsh screen). I was hoping to use Light Rays to have the light shine through the text, but I can't find a way to get what I want. Is there a way to move the source light from left to right behind the logo? I'm not talking about the angle of emission (which is keyframing the "center" parameter). I'm talking about keeping the center at 0,0 and physically moving the source light from left to right.
This was discussed in this thread but the OPer never posted his answer.
Wait, I just thought of something I'll try while you all are looking for this: I might try to keep center at 0,0 and then animate a mask to reveal the logo (a word). Don't know if that will give me my desired effect, but it's worth a try!
If anyone has an answer to my original question, that would be cool in the meantime.
Thanks,
Jonathan
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Does this help at all?
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How this light rays and fogg blue impression can be made in Photoshop or in illustrator?

Hi All,
I am in dire need of your help, How can this special effect in attached image can be produced. To be precise, I mean light rays coming from dj player and if you notice there is blue foggy impression on tshirt , How these things can be made in Adobe Photoshop CS3 or in Adobe Illustrator CS3?

• create a vertical Gradient Layer black to nothing
• create a horizontal Gradient Layer nothing to white to nothing
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• add black background
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Final Cut Express "Light Rays" Effect

Might also be called 'Trap Door Effect'.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1FhvN_PUxc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPuh61ivmyg
It's commonly used in Sony Vegas productions.
One complicated way of doing it in FCE would be to use multiple layers of video, add a Gaussian Blur and increase the zoom on the bottom layer while lowering the Opacity on the top layer, but in order to smoothly animate the rays you'd have to do some rather convoluted things.
Is there a simple way to do this in Final Cut Express (using 3.5 right now, considering upgrading) for both video and text?

I don't believe the "Light Rays" filter included with FCE 4 is the effect you want. It makes the clip look a lot different than the examples you provided. Effects like the one you are looking for need to be created by themselves, and not just applied. Tom's book definitely explains how to do this, but I was unsuccessful as of yet in finding the exact lesson (part of the problem is that I don't know exactly what such an effect was called, so I can't just look it up in the index. It's a 300-something page book, so finding a particular section without remembering its name is a little tricky...)
I will continue to keep my eye out. I believe it has something to do with creating two text tracks, applying some sort of glow to the bottom one, and keyframing its movement. Will let you know when I know for sure.

CC Light Rays From Camera Perspective?

Hey guys, This may be a newb question but i cant seem to find anything on it. I have been messign with CC Lightrays in After Effects 5.5 and im using it by adding keyframes to lower and up the intensity back and fourth to make it look like the light is moving. My question is though, How can i get it so that the source of the rays is off screen yet fills the screen with its rays? Because the more you drag the source light off screen, the more it makes a cone chape of light. Also, i wanted to know how i can make the rays coming at me when im facing the camera. I have a shot where im looking at the camer and i want it to look like im looking into the light rays and im also surrounded by it. Like im in a beam. Any help qould be great.

Hi Joey, what Mylenium referred to was Precomposing: Have a look at the screeshot. Supposed you have the object that is the source for the light rays on the "Your Object" layer and the CC Light Rays effect on an adjustment layer above. Then select both layers, right click and choose "Pre-compose" (Move all attributes). This results in a new composition, in form of a single layer, that took the place of the old ones. This new layer can be scaled up so that the source of the rays move outside the screen while still shining into the picture.

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Hello,
I have the following problem:
I created a composition with an Image (Logo) that is highlighted by lightrays and reflections.
It looks great - than i decided, that it would even look better if it slowly zooms in.
But now, after i scaled the composition down, the light rays don't reach to the edge of the screen no more.
What can i do?
Thanks!

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Hello board, I am new to Motion 3 and I know this is one of the easier tasks but I need guidance on how to make light rays pass through text from left to right to give it a shine effect. If you could link me to the thread that has this guide already or just reply here I would appreciate the help. Thank you!

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http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/smartin/story/animatingtext_highlights_inmotion/
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Hello all, I am applying the light rays filter to a gif.
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I'm using motion 5.2
Cheers.

Thank you for taking the time to answer.
The gif itself is pretty big and renders well with no effects applied, it is only when the light rays filter is applied that it all goes badly pixelated, I am not talking about the slight perception of aliased edges, the gif becomes ridiculously pixelated. I am away from my computer and therefore cannot provide a screenshot, I will try to show one as soon as I can.
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Hey Case,
That did work. I had to make the Light-spill group a 3D group (then turned off lighting) and applied Match Move, dropped the Light-spot object in the source well. My Light-spill moved off the screen somewhere until I changed the transform pulldown from Attach to Mimic.
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Hi,
> "What will be the difference between leaving that red lights 'ON' vs "disabling" these red objects? (I am bit confused on this).
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hello
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well, i'm starting with a blue dot imported as an png image 50X50 pixel, in a HD composition. in CS5.5 the rays can occupy all the comp, but in CC the rays are limited to the 50X50 pixel of the png. i've tried to precompose, it works but i have many many projects to check and no much time. i've tried the "grow bound" effect but it seem it's not working with cc lightrays.
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Once you create the instance of the Sibgleton the GC
CANNOT clear it because of the static refernec to it.
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I can of course be 100% wrong on this since there are many different environments.
With the
weak or soft reference the GC can clear it anytime it
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soft). I know what weak a soft references do, but I don't understand why you want to use them. Your singleton will not be a singleton since instances will be created and destroyed. Creating your "heavy" object many times is worse than creating it one time.
That's the usefulness. It isn't useful. It's a singleton which isn't a singleton, and it's only good for read only data.
Let's say you have a
module that operates with huge objects and that
module is singleton. Once the application gets the
singleton it's created and never destroyed until the
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