[Andrew Tregoning]

yes!! thank you so much!

[Andrew Tregoning]

thanks for your help michael

[Andrew Tregoning]

watching it again, it does look like did just spin the focus wheel whilst hitting the camera jj abrams style.

sooo i could just wiggle my footage’s x and y position, and wiggle a blur on the footage.

sorry for clogging up the forum guys!!

[Andrew Tregoning]

wow thanks that was incredibly quick! i’ve have a look at the camera lens blur effect now..

[Andrew Tregoning]

to be more specific:

1:46-1:49 ish

when it looks like- the point that is in focus, moves around the frame randomly

if that makes sense

i’m thinking i could create a mask with a blur on it, feather it out then whizz it around the frame with a random expression?

[Andrew Tregoning]

i’m a beginner also but here’s my attempt..

use this tutorial if you want the text to move along a curved line:
https://ae.tutsplus.com/tutorials/motion-graphics/animating-text-along-a-path-in-after-effects-ae-basix/

you need to track the motion of the actors mouth, and then use the keyframe information to position the text.
this should help you with that:
https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/tracking-stabilizing-motion-cs5.html#apply_tracking_data_to_a_new_target

to get the movement of the text to slow down over time you need to probably use the ‘Graph Editor’ in the timeline panel to fiddle with your postion keyframes.

to scale the text up, animate the ‘scale’ of the text (click the little stopwatch next to Transform > ‘Scale’) by putting one keyframe at 00:00s in the time line, then one further into the clip, leave the first one at 100% and the change the second one to 150% or whatever figure works best

hope this helps