Sparkles Orbit Text

notVeryBright wrote:

…I am sure it is easy for regular users, …

no ....?

there's no out-of-the-box effect in FCPX, so, I'd say, your only other option (aside purchasing somewhere some thing) is to build one in Motion.

Motion comes with some canned 'Magic Wand' effect, add a motion path:

(ok, needs some 'love' … slammed together in a minute)

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that board software tricked me again! There was no fox' reply when I answered!! grrr....

Nice fireflies, btw, fox 😉

fox_m wrote:

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If you link a Rectangle shape … I also recommend turning off the Gravity behavior and boosting the Random Motion Amount ("pixie dust" should float 😀).

Thanks for your advice!! Very helpful.

what always impresses me:

even on my underpowered system (2012 MacMini) such a 'complex' animation with all its particles allows to adjust 'live' the parameters - which makes it dropdeadeasy to find 'your' design…

Any advice to accomplish 'behind/in front' of Text?

Although the circle I used as path is an 'orbit' around the text in 3D, the sparks z-position is defined by where the group layer is ('under'=behind or 'over'=in front the text.group) … 😟

I used the same thing you did 😉 Magic Wand + Motion Path (plus fiddled around with some parameters to change up the MW a little.)

If you link a Rectangle shape to the size of the Text bounding box with Link > Object Attributes and Align To the Text object, you can create a Motion Path that always follows the location of the text (use the loop parameter to make multiple passes; use Rectangle > Roundness to make the path more oval and the Link > X Offset/YOffset parameters to give a little more space between the text and sparkles). I also recommend turning off the Gravity behavior and boosting the Random Motion Amount ("pixie dust" should float 😀).

Something like this?

Place objects (emitter and text) in a 3D group [Leave Title Background in a 2D group if left turned on]. In the Magic Wand emitter, check the 3D option. Set the Emission Range to 360.