[David Bogie]

You needed to shoot the scene with motion tracking in mind.
since you’re just playing around, research the topic carefully, do some experiments, and reshoot with your newly gained wisdom.

Motion tracking is extensively covered in many tutorials here and in other After Effects forums. You need a very good video track to do good motion tracking and that usually means you want a lot of light so you can shoot at at least 1/125 second, faster if you can. If you can’t us e a high shutter speed, your sword is moving too fast to track, it will just be a blur.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

[craig whit] “I’m sure this is a simple fix, just not sure where to look. “

The Viewer is a QT Player. it will display your movie natively.
The Canvas is a scaled down and compressed representation of the sequence settings, not your clip. Your clip is being processed by the sequence settings and then processed by the Canvas.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

It’s just some wiggle. Can be done many different ways including displacement mapping using fractal noise, some scripts, expressions, or plugins for Illustrator that will create the loping versions of the text object.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

[Darren Rooney] “I have soundbooth, and it does a good job of matching the volume. What do you guys think is a good workflow for putting sound and video together?

Should I render the audio separately out of AE, adjust in soundbooth and then bring the new track into AE again? Any help would be appreciated, I’m relatively new to AE and SB so I don’t want to fall into bad workflow!
“

You use each tool as it is intended and then you pull all of the individual components back into a video editor to marry them, sync them, and make trims. You should create all of the individual items with some handles to make trimming easier.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

[Benj Roche] “Does AE have a built in method for removing flicker?
“

Depends on what you mean by “flicker” and I can’t tell from your posts. Mismatches in refresh rates between a screen and a shutter cannot be fixed easily. If there are moving images on your screen you must decide whether frame blending and forced motion blur are acceptable.

If you step through 20 individual frames, what are seeing that bothers you and what frames?
Try to be very specific when you say flicker.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

Most common issue is you’ve set the view to alpha only.
check that and report back.
the least common issue is far worse.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

Pereian is a known issue but it’s not a universal problem.
You must remove ALL of Perian.

Your crash log looks noting like mine but my crashing was in FCP. Can you post that one? You only need to include the thread that actually crashed unless someone can decipher it. They’ll ask for more if they need to.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

If you expect to do this effect more than once ad can bill your clients for the look, you want a package form DigiEffects. https://www.digieffects.com/product_home

They no longer list their products conveniently by platform but most of their plugs now drop into FCP.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

Captions that are encoded into analog using conventional Line 21 specs video will be stripped off if you render anything in FCP.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

Audio drift is a function of only two possible things. The audio track is on another framerate or time base or your playback system is at fault and will not or cannot handle both at the same time
How you arrive at either situation is unknown.
In the olden days, we’d see posts everyday from folks capturing Canon’s weird version of “DV.” The only fix was to unlink the audio from the video, find the exact length of the video track (from oepning slate to end slate, event-to-event), write that down, find the exact length of the audio track (from start event to end event, not the physical size of the track since it’s the same as the the video track yet it’s out of sync), apply speed adjust to it, and enter the video track’s length, render the audio, relink the two tracks.

bogiesan