[John Cuevas]

Is your video the part this is unfocused? Just a guess, but is the project you bought HD and your video SD? That would be the problem right there.(IF this isn’t the case, some screen grabs might be necessary)

If that’s the case. You could take the final project(the one you would render) with your video and drag it to the new comp button. Press Cntl+K, then choose a Standard Def Widescreen Preset(720 x 480 Pixel Aspect Ration of 1.21). Now select the layer in your project and press Cntl + Alt + F to automatically scale the project to your composition.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

Can you post a shot or link to the video?

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

It sounds like you need to do some advance planar tracking, so it’s a job for Mocha. Because of the turns you might need multiple tracks too, but that’s impossible to determine without seeing the footage. If you have CS6 you can select your shot and launch Mocha from within AE and I know I have seen a video about that, but I can’t seem to find it.

Not knowing your level of familiarity with Mocha, here are few places to start:

AdobeTV tutorials on Mocha

Fundamentals of Mocha

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

Sometimes when I run into the same issue, I will turn off MP, do a RAM preview and let it complete, purge it and then turn MP back on and it will work fine again.

But along with Roland I have never found any rhyme or reason why it happens.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

This was the best money I spent to learn AE: Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects: Essential and Advanced Techniques, 5th Edition, Version CS5

There books aren’t about step by step tutorials, but learning the fundamentals of AE and why use this technique to get this end result. They also have there own website you might want to check out too: https://www.crishdesign.com/

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

I am saying that you have been very kind and generous to give free templates that we can use or use to learn new techniques and if you accidentally post the wrong one, there is no need to apologize.

Appreciate the work you do to make these available.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

That’s another good solution.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

Here’s an expression from After Effects Expressions that you might find useful:


var startingMinute = 9;
var startingSecond = 4;
var seconds = Math.floor(time) + startingSecond;
var minutes = Math.floor(seconds / 60) + startingMinute;
var secondsAsPartsOfAMinute = Math.floor(seconds % 60);
function addZeros(rawNumber)
{
if (rawNumber < 10) return "0" + rawNumber;
return "" + rawNumber;
}
addZeros(minutes) + ":" + addZeros(secondsAsPartsOfAMinute);


Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

Javier, you’ve been giving people some neat templates for free…far from Fail.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

Are you asking how to create a composition longer than 4 seconds? If that’s, select your composition and press “Cntl + K” and at the bottom of the comp dialogue you set the duration time of the composition.

Also for us to see your image, you have to select the image from the right and copy the embed code from the left.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.