Ken Teutsch
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This would be pretty easy to do. Read up on track mattes if you haven’t used them.
You make the animated moving bars using shape layers or even just animated strokes, then use those animations as mattes that reveal the underlying footage.
As I said, if you are new to AE, read up on or look up tutorials on track mattes. (And be careful not to your lollypop on the keyboard.)
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Well, if you’re stupid, then so am I. I only knew to tell you to check that because I’ve done the same thing.
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I don’t think I quite grasp your setup, but… Any chance it’s a depth-of-field/focus issue with the AE camera?
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Look for the Set Matte effect.
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You can never really tell these days, but…
That looks hand-drawn to me. Back in the day we used to get that “wiggle” by just drawing two (or possibly three) versions of a frame and alternating between them. The natural variation between the frames creates the movement.
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I’m no mask/shape expert (though there are some on this forum) …I just know animating them can be tricky, especially the parametric shapes, which do weird things.
You might take a look at this script: https://aescripts.com/bao-mask-avenger/
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Is there any reason you can’t pre-compose the layers, make the new precomp 3D and then just rotate it in 3D space?
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I think what you need to achieve what you’re looking for is a track matte instead of a mask. If you are not familiar with track mattes, search up some help/tutorials on them. You can use a shape created in Photoshop or wherever to make a “mask” with whatever edges and/or shape you want.
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I wouldn’t say it looks “cheap.” It just looks like a transition.
What kills the impression of flight is the reversal of motion– zoom in/zoom out. Making it one (seemingly) continuous zoom by scaling both layers up together with a little easing at the beginning and end would help that. As for the resolution problem with blowing up the first image, if you make it fast enough and blurry enough (maybe a directional blur or radial blur effect) and no one will be able to tell.
My two cents.
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At first glance I would say…
Duplicate the layer, create a circular track matte (rather than a mask), put the duplicate layer’s anchor point in the proper place and rotate the duplicated/matted layer.