[Max Haller]

Hey Bill I’m reading your posts and I watched that Avi video you posted. Are you new to after effects? it might be tricky for you to recreate whats happening that template. Might just save yourself a lot of hassle and buy a similar template for like 30 bucks.

The part where the image of house breaks into a grid and rotates looks like it will be a good amount of work and also difficult to explain. If you’re not too concerned with the fancy grid rotating aspect it should be easy enough though.

really what cassius said is right, I think maybe you need to check if your camera is two nodes or 1 node. Because if you’re saying its rotating weird when you move the camera you probably have to animate the point of interest as well. I think its just under camera options when u click the arrow down on the camera layer.

You want to be animating the Y rotation of the camera and the position of the point of interest, or potentially just the POI. Play around and see if that helps. And then of course you want to be animating the picture of the house moving through Z position as 3D layer. And it looks like the frame has 2 copies that are moved back in the Z Position also.

[Max Haller]

Have you tried doing live trace like this : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CP9JsjKvlcQ

and maybe a merge paths on the shape layers afterwards should make it one path.

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[Max Haller]

it should paste in place by default if the comp sizes are the same. I’m not having any issues like that.

[Max Haller]

Yes that means theres a track matte above that layer. See that icon of the dude sticking his nose over a fence that’s in blue in the top right of your layer panel? Thats the shy toggle, click that and it’ll show you the matte that’s been hidden above the text.

Or the text might be the matte and the square is taking the inverted alpha. but when u click that shy toggle button you’ll see more layers show up and you can experiment from there. And like dave said there should be some documentation with the template to help you make changes.

[Max Haller]

If that’s how it shot all you can do is match the motion blur on your key. Try the roto brush and refine edge brush, that should be able to key the blurry part properly. Make sure the freeze the roto before you render it too. There’s also options in the refine matte effects about using motion blur for the edges.

[Max Haller]

Weird it does seem like it’s working. Have you tried moving the texture underneath by changing the x,y coordinates in the position property instead of dragging with the mouse?

The only thing i can think of is something is stopping the layer from moving somehow. try moving it through the position property and if that doesn’t work try using the transform effect to shift it over.

[Max Haller]

It should do alright! You would benefit greatly from more ram. Around 32gigs is a good amount for just doing personal projects or other jobs that aren’t too crazy.

[Max Haller]

Another way to do it is to use 2 solids, make one one color and the other another color. Then use a feathered mask to blend between.

[Max Haller]

I think your first upgrade should be your ram. Even going up to 16 gigs will give you a big boost in performance. Ram is very important for AE I routinely use up 30-40gigs not even doing crazy stuff. I’d recommend at least 32, that would use up the bulk of the your budget but getting that and even a 128gb ssd to use for your cache would probably help you alot.

An ideal hard drive set up is to have a few drives to use so that you don’t bottleneck anywhere. You want your fastest drive as your cache drive, one drive for reading your footage from and a different drive to render to. That will help a lot also.

If you’re not used to buying new hardware you should check if your computer is using ddr3 or ddr4 ram everything from the past few years should be on ddr4 but if it’s an older computer you should check. Also Like tom said your motherboard will determine how much ram you can plug in, but most recent computers should take 32gigs. you’ll want to check if you have 2 ram slots or 4 ram slots on your board too.

[Max Haller]

wow looks like it worked really well. Did you do anything to fix those frames or it just ended up working?