[John Cuevas]

Can you post a frame grab? Understand problem now, but would like to try some different things.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
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[John Cuevas]

The shatter effect has it’s own camera system, use that instead of the comp camera.

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]

Animation would do the trick, or an AVI, but AVI’s tend to be huge. Being that we use avid’s, I generally master to an Avid DNxHD codec. Smaller than animation, and the loss in quality is pretty negligible. Avid DNxHD is free to download if you are inclined to go that route.

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]

Just for good housekeeping, I always make a full quality master for myself, you never know when you will need it again. From there I will make my deliverables in Media Encoder, and I always just use the H.264 Youtube preset in Encoder.

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]

Andrew Kramer does a good tutorial animating a 3D stroke using AE’s native particle system, that might be what you are looking for. 3D Stroke Effect

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]

Have you tried using one of the particle generators(I’d use particular)? That would be a pretty easy way to create footprints.

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]

Only thing I can say, is try the Final Cut Pro forum, I’ve never used it.

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]

1. Animate at a higher frame rate, though if you don’t render out and playback at this frame rate it won’t matter much.

2. Move the objects slower so that the difference between consecutive frames is lowered.

3. Turn on Motion Blur for all the moving objects (only helps for objects you’ve animated inside AE.)

4. Raise the “Shutter Angle” in “Composition Settings”(Cntl+K) -> “Advanced” to get more motion blur.

You may also want to check out: Avoiding Judder in Motion Graphics

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]

One method, would be to create one giant composition(10240×570.) and fill it full of text, named “Text 1). Create your final comp at normal size and place a texture as the bottom layer. Bring in Text 1 and apply an expression to position, by alt-clicking the position stopwatch:

seedRandom(index,true);
startPos = random([0.0,0],[thisComp.width*2,thisComp.height*2,0]);

This expression will just move your text layers in different places, each layer will be random from the next. Change the layer length to 1 second and add opacity keyframes so the layer fades up, then fades down. Now just duplicate the layer 20 to 30 times and offset each layer, by going to Animation > Keyframe Assistant > Sequence Layers. Offset them by the duration of your dissolve. Make the layers, 3D, add a camera and do a slow move and you are done.

Check out my example project. 8053_ramdontextfolder.zip

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]

First, the picture is much bigger than the final composition, this is important so when you zoom/scale it doesn’t ter. The twists are achieved, by using rotation, scale and anchor point keyframes. The jumps aren’t even really jumps(you can see this playing frame by frame), but quick zooms, moves with a glow effect that ramps up and off quickly.

This is all pretty basic stuff, so I would strongly suggest you check out: Getting started with After Effects (CS4, CS5, CS5.5, CS6, & CC)

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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.