[David Chappell]

To stop your motion blur looking like a gradient you simply need to increase the quality.
Composition Settings > Advanced > Samples per Frame (default I think is 16)

For very fast animation with solid colours you may need to increase quite drastically – try 64 or even higher.
Higher samples number = better quality motion blur = longer render times!

With reference to the fluidity I think that it is just more practice & experiementing with keyframing… the example you posted was obviously produced by a highly skilled motion graphics animater.

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David Chappell
Freelance Motion Graphics / 3D
http://www.IncidentalTrees.co.uk

[David Chappell]

Maybe it would be easier to replace the whole blinds with a new 3D render – rather than just the portion that was behind the phone?
I can imagine the pain of all those horizontal lines :/

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David Chappell
Freelance Motion Graphics / 3D
http://www.IncidentalTrees.co.uk

[David Chappell]

You just need to save it in the system when you’ve set it up.

Window > Workspace > New Workspace

Name it (“maximized setup” etc) – then set it all up how you want it to be.

Now whenever you open AE just choose that workspace from the list. If you open an old project or one by someone else, once open you click the workspace name and everything will be-jigged to how you want it.

🙂

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David Chappell
Freelance Motion Graphics / 3D
http://www.IncidentalTrees.co.uk

[David Chappell]

The way I understand this would be:

1. switch off all the layers intended for camera 2 – so you just see the layers intended for camera 1.
2. Add the camera and set it up.
3. Now precompose all the visible layers and the camera.
4. Now switch all your camera 2 layers back on.
5. Add the 2nd camera and set it up.

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David Chappell
Freelance Motion Graphics / 3D
http://www.IncidentalTrees.co.uk

[David Chappell]

Can you not just drag the whole composition on to a new composition at the new size of 1080 – then scale it down to fit?

It’s not ideal way of working but at least everything should match exact and you can then keep working on the 2k version.

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David Chappell
Freelance Motion Graphics / 3D
http://www.IncidentalTrees.co.uk

[David Chappell]

AE is pixel based – as in an example screen resolution is 1024 pixels by 576 pixels.

So if for instance you want an A4 (21cm x 29cm) image at 300dpi – you would need to set up AE to render 2480×3425.

Example set-up for an A4 based on (21cm x 29cm):
72 dpi – 595×822
200 dpi – 2283×1654
300 dpi – 2480×3425

An easy way to find out your needed pixels is open photoshop – set up the size in cms and the desired dpi – then change view to pixels.

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David Chappell
Freelance Motion Graphics / 3D
http://www.IncidentalTrees.co.uk
http://www.WhichDimension.com