Joey Foreman
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Here’s a thread that discusses what you want to do, I think.
https://forums.adobe.com/message/1790587#1790587
Have you looked into CC TimeFX?
Joey Foreman
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Look in your sequence settings and see what the compressor is set to.
If it’s DV/NTSC change it to animation, assuming that’s what you rendered to from AE. Just change it long enough to see how that affects the AE footage in the timeline.
If you’re intercutting with DV footage, I would recommend recompressing that to Prores 422 with the Media Manager, then re-render your AE clips to ProRes from AE.
Then change your Sequence Settings in FCP to ProRes as well.If you don’t do this, all of the clips in your timeline will have to be rendered to Animation, and will require re-rendering again if you apply any filters.
Making everything ProRes will get you too a happier, less processor-intensive medium.Joey Foreman
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The default export module usually uses the Animation codec.
Change the Compressor in your FCP Sequence settings to Animation.
(In FCP, if your sequence is using the NTSC/DV Compressor, then yes, you should expect to see a drop in Quality.)If you’re using any version of FCP 6.0 or above, if you drag your clip to an empty sequence, you’ll get a dialog asking if you want the Sequence Settings to match the footage. Choose Yes.
If you’re seeing the poor quality in Quicktime Player, first make sure you’re using Quicktime 7, not Quicktime X. Then go into Quicktime Preferences General and be sure that Use High Quality Video Settings when Available is checked.
Joey Foreman
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How about trying Proxies.
https://help.adobe.com/en_US/aftereffects/cs/using/WSB356ACD2-AF59-4604-B378-31D687DB5ACCa.html
Or rendering at Draft quality.
Joey Foreman
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https://tutorials.forgingfire.com/2008/05/making-clouds-with-trapcode-particular/
Joey Foreman
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Sorry for misreading your question.
How about this?https://www.maxon.net/downloads/updates/plugins.html
and/or this
https://aenhancers.com/viewtopic.php?t=653
Joey Foreman
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This can be done visually convincingly with multiple 3d layers of cloud imagery, but your next step up would be a particle generation system. AE has a couple built in, but if you’ve got some cash to spare, Trapcode Particular would be the way to go.
Joey Foreman
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You can bring in camera data, lights, multipass texture renders, and z-depth info into AE from C4D, but not 3d meshes.
Here’s a tutorial
https://ae.tutsplus.com/tutorials/workflow/integrating-c4d-into-ae/
and another
https://greyscalegorilla.com/blog/2009/10/how-to-export-your-scene-from-cinema-4d-to-after-effects/
and one more
Hope that helps
Joey Foreman
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Sorry, I assumed you had an earlier version of AE.
I don’t know of any inexpensive (shareware/freeware) apps for doing work of this kind.Joey Foreman
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Duplicate the layer.
Then just create a mask around the person on the top layer, and set the mask to Add. You may then find it helpful to use the Pan tool to move the layer’s Anchor point to the center of the person, so that it scales from the center.
Now just animate the scale property of the two layers, up for the person layer and down for the background layer.
You may need to also animate the Position property of one or both layers so that original image of the person on the bottom layer stays fully obscured by the top layer.Joey Foreman
Editor/Compositor/VFX Artist