I'm working on a music video for a friend. It's just a live recording, nothing fancy. There's a lyric in his song that says: "The smoke always seems to spell out your first name". I noticed that during the footage of one of my takes, at that perfect moment, some gorgeous smoked hit the lights I set up just right and I just have to try and get that name in there.
Now, of course this smoke is moving. I want to add the name but make it look natural. A mask would be a simple solution, but I could not make that look like free moving smoke. I'm looking for an effect similar to this:
There are a lot of great tutorials on smoke text out there (from video copilot for example), but none have achieved the effect I am looking for.
Can anyone point me in the right direction or offer some advice?
Additinoal notes:
-After Effects v11
-I also have Trapcode particular on the machine I'm using if that helps & I'm open to looking into other plugins.