Blending mode and choke issues

Im doing a very simple tutorial and I have encountered a few problems which I have been unaware of before.  
Here is the link to the tut - http://ae.tutsplus.com/tutorials/motion-graphics/use-a-jello-jiggly-expression-quick-tip/
In the beginning he duplicates the text and changes the blending mode of the top layer to multiply.   First problem I encountered is my text barely changes colour/appearance in any way when doing this.
Next he applies a Matte>simple choker and cranks it to 40.   Second problem when I do this I see no choke because the multiply hasnt made enough diffeence to notice.  Also I soloed the duplicate layer and cranked the choker up but I cant take it any higher than about 8 or it just starts disappearing.
I tried the same thing with a shape and that seemed to be even more problematic. I used a rectangle and duplicated it. When i choked it the duplicate gets round corners and stretches horizontally.  WHats going on here?
Am I doing something wrong here?  I am following the video instructions precisely.   Thank you.

Matte Choker will make rounded corners because that's exactly what it is designed to do. If you applied simple choker to a text layer and a very small value change makes the text disappear then the text isn't thick enough. Try a fatter font. As Mylenium said, blend modes based on the value of pixels depend on the color. The max value of red is the max value of red so if you multiply it by the max value of red you still get the max value of red which equals the max value of red, therefore there is no change.
This won't work:
This will but barely:
Setting the bottom layer to something lighter with values like this works better because there is some room to do the math and it is in more than one channel:
But you can see that there's very little edge available and the matte choker is rounding the corners. It does this because all matte chokers work by blurring the edge of the alpha and then adjusting the level or the curve of the blur. You can build your own matte choker simply by applying blur to a layer, adjusting the alpha levels using that layer as an Alpha track matte for your text. See how I've crushed the alpha levels toward white? That is what makes the matte shrink.
I hope this helps you understand the process better.

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