I doubt you'll find a "template" since that effect requires it to dynamically write the text. That would be easy to accomplish with GenArts particleIlusion. There is a stand-alone version, AE version, and Vegas Pro version. You cannot accomplish that with the Vegas Pro version because Vegas has no way of creating motion on a curve so your options are stand-alone (which I highly recommend) or AE (which has less function than the stand-alone version)

~jr

Is there a good website with good collection of fireworks with sound?. I tried pond5, revostock and luna. but couldn't find an good one with audio.

Sound Dogs have lots of great sound FXs at very reasonable prices.
You can download the very low quality mp3 version to try in your project before you buy. Many of the files may included mutliple variants of the same FXs which is very handy at times.
One trick with Sound Dogs, if you don't find what you want when you first search try similar names, their search engine is certainly not as smart as Google.

Bob.

you download a trial version of Particle illusion and map the particle to the text very quick and easy

Render out your text to an image sequence
In PI import the sequence in the particle dialogue box and select frame 1 for 1
This will map the particle to the image sequence

I've been experimenting and I believe I can do this in Blender for you.

I wanted to create an effect similar to the following link. Below link is not much creative. Wanted to show the text was created out of the firework blast colors.

link > http://videohive.net/item/text-fireworks/307544?WT.ac=search_thumb&WT.seg_1=search_thumb&WT.z_author=steve314

I found that one too but dismissed it for two reasons.

1) It was nothing like your original sample
2) It just looks horrible, in no way is it remotely photorealistic. It just screams cheap and nasty.

On the other hand you can get exactly what you want using AE or possibly even just Vegas if you don't mind doing some hard work without any fancy plugins, just plain old compositing of a clean plate shot with a camera. All you need is one sparkler, a truly dark space, a camera and a tripod. Shoot a minute or two of a sparkler held in one spot with something locked down.
You then clean that video up so the black is solid black, no noise. Then you just keep doing additive composites. You shift each layer around a bit in time and space etc, etc so your text reveals. I'd add a stroke on effect as well.

Take a look at the following that I did years ago, same idea, one clean plate of a candle and over 100 layers in AE CS3. I started out doing it in Vegas but at around the 40 track mark it just got too hard and I switched to AE.



The hardest part was getting a clean shot of the candle and cleaning it up so the blacks and transparency were uber clean otherwise it would have all "added" into a mess.

Bob.

I didn't forget about this, I had my dad ask for a 3D animation for this Friday right after I said I'd look in to doing this, so I'm getting that out the door first. :)

Not exactly what you wanted, but here's something I hacked together a couple years back - all done in Vegas w/o special FX.

Started out by inserting a sparkler in a crack on my rear deck. Mounted my camera on a tripod and rotated 90° (so that the sparkler now appears to burn left to right - rather than up to down).

The rest should be Vegas 101.



...Jerry

I'm pretty sure he's looking for something where the fireworks form shapes, in this case letters (like this):

"The rest should be Vegas 101."

You certainly could do it starting with just the sparkler entirely in Vegas.
It'd be a lot easier in AE and the OP has AE.
Two things that Vegas comes up short on compared to AE.

1) The ability to stroke a path, well Vegas doesn't even do paths. You can fudge it in Vegas by very careful masking.
2) Working with lots of ayers / tracks is much easier. AE is a dedicated compositing app and the guts of it are written to handle 100s of tracks. It doesn't do real time playback very well though. Horses for courses.


I'd put a bit more effort into getting a clean shot of the sparkler. Poke it through a piece of Cinefoil so I had a good black background. Get the camera back a fair way to match the perspective of watching someone writing with a sparkler.

Back at the computer build the "write on" effect by just stroking paths with a soft edged red pen, maybe add a bit of noise to that. Then stroke the path with the sparkler plate so the sparkler appears to be the pen.
Then add more copies of the sparkler plate just after the points the sparkler pen has written. This creates the illusion that the sparkler pen is lighting more sparklers as it writes.
The entire thing could be done on film, no computer needed. Compositors were pulling off these kinds of effects long before we had computers using optical printers.

Here's another thing inspired by looking at Jerry's work.
A sparkler is a 1D object. It doesn't matter from which direction you look at it from, it looks the same. The candle that I worked with is a 2D object, you can move the camera around in the X and Z axis and it looks the same. So with just a sparkler plate you can have lots of fun in AE moving the 3D camera around, all you need to build what appears to be a 3D world of sparklers is to keep the flat plate pointing at the camera and AE has a simple expression to do that for you.

Bob.