My Intro

My theme for every video that i have ever done is to create an after effects intro this can be simple or complicated.
for this i got stock video's from video-copilot. of flour blowing around. then i brought them into after effects and put them one above the other. and changed the top ones blending mode to add.
this means the video's alpha channels are removed so the area's that are black on the video are removed.

then i went to effect>color correction>curves which brought up the curves options for that image and changed the red green and blue values till it resembled an orange fire type look. for the video underneath i changed its values to a blueish color which i think works well together.

then i added text. a chose a simple Tom Raworth Stop Motion title

Then i wanted to make it so the text fades in. so i selected both the pieces of text and clicked the little arrow next to them this created a drop down menu. under transform there is opacity i went on the timeline where i wanted my text to be invisible till it starts fading in and clicked the little stop watch. then i went on the timeline to where i wanted the text fully visable and turned the opacity back to 100% this creates an automatic keyframe and the text will fade in inbetween those two keyframes.