IF you are saying that you enabled Layer Styles when you wrote, “(both the white background and the text layer have Drop Shadow and Drop Shadow enabled).” then this may be your problem.

Hi. Most likely your icons are intersecting with your background. Reposition them closer to you (the z position – it allows you to use negative numbers ie; -25.) Alternately move your background further back and scale it up.

Hi Arthur, I may be way, way off course but if an egg spins and is upright then it may look like it’s not moving at all. Just a thought.

Hi Tim, first thought is blur and play with blending options. ?

Hi Jay. The two things you need to look up are: Rotoscoping (cutting out an image) and Compositing (putting something into a video and making it look as if it belongs). It usually does take three layers, bottom the whole video, middle the greenscreen, and the top layer is the whole video rotoscoped where anything that passes in front of your…

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Hi. I would make a mask around the flare, slightly feathered then add a copy of your footage underneath and offset its position slightly – so that the “hole” in the upper layer is filled with the near area. You may need to change the position of the lower layer during the shot, but hopefully not.

Hi Daniel. By far the easiest way to do this is to key out your background. Have a green screen behind you (it only needs to be around your head and shoulders as you can mask out the rest of the shot – “garbage matt”). There are a lot of “‘greenscreen” tutorials around, look for ones using Keylight which comes with AE. Place your keyed footage on…

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Hi. It’s called RGB Split, there are quite a few tutorials on line.

Again I’m a bit confused by exactly what you are doing. The only thing I can think to suggest is to duplicate your light, turn off the visibility of the original that is being used as the emitter then split the duplicate where/when it goes behind your 3D object and move the second (split) layer to below the 3D object layer.

Ah, I see. From memory (I haven’t done this in a long time) you can turn off the eye icon on the Light layer and the light will disappear but still act as an emitter.

Hi. Sorry, I don’t understand what you mean. The ‘light source’ is the physical light that is casting the light. Perhaps if you explain your problem in detail someone might be able to help more. The only thing that I can think of is that you want a layer in front of the lit object not to be affected by the light – in which case make sure the layer…

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Hi Vasco. At the top of your page View>Show Layer Controls.

Shortcut Ctrl+Shift+H

Hi Areej. If you have your square with a fill then it will act like that. Remove the fill and you should be able to see the stroke works properly.

Hi Max. I would be tempted to start with Fractal Noise and add the Bezier Warp effect to get the shape. As a starting point you might want to look at Animation Presets/Backgrounds/Curtains.

Hi Emma, you could also look at the Liquify effect which can be keyframed.

Hi Remko, have you tried dragging the clip onto the “New Composition” button, it should open a comp with the right settings!?

Hi, I usually add the contrast and other necessary adjustments by adding them in the precomp, not the main comp. Is that the issue?

Hi Eli, I would try with the CC Simple Wire Removal effect and use several instances. You might even be able to manually keyframe the beginning and end points of the effect as the shot pans.

Hi. Have a look at the Roughen Edges Effect and play with the Border settings (among others).

Hi Esther, your question is a bit confusing. Do you want it to stay in the same position and rotate from its centre? If so use the pan behind tool and move the anchor point to the centre of your object and use the rotation setting. If you want the object to rotate around the screen have the anchor point at the centre of your screen, offset the…

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Hi. Use a copy of your text as a track matte.

Hi. Precompose the shape/text with the effects applied.

Hi Ella, look up “boomerang effect”. That’s probably the culprit.