[Michael Szalapski]

This video must have been done in a very big hurry. There is no creativity here; as Filip says, lots of clichés. However, sports videos don’t seem to care that everybody and their mother uses these effects; it’s almost like it’s part of sports.

Stuart also makes a good point. You will need to read the manual. After Effects is a very powerful program, but that means there is a lot to learn. You can use AE for many years and still learn new things almost daily with it.

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[Michael Szalapski]

Could you show an example video of the flicking?
Render out a part where it is the worst.
Then on the COW above the box where you type a response are a series of buttons, one button from the right is the video upload button. That way we can see exactly what you are talking about.

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[Michael Szalapski]

I’m going to walk this through step-by-step the way I did it.
Make a layer.
Mask the layer into a shape.
Precompose, moving all attributes.
Call the precomp “Shape”
In the main comp make the Precomp “Shape” a 3d layer
Create a new layer and name it “Particles”.
On “Particles” apply Effect>Trapcode>Particular
In the Particular effects setting set the Emitter type to layer
In layer choose “Shape”
That should work.

Here’s a project with which I was toying. I didn’t name everything, but if you’re pretty savvy in AE and I know Trapcode Particular reasonably well, it shouldn’t be a problem to figure it out. In the precomp you can change the mask shape on the layer and you’ll see the particles change in response.

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[Michael Szalapski]

I was thinking that the T was just one color and you could just recreate it in After Effects by a mask and then just animate that mask. But if it’s a logo and not just a shape, this may help you.
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/zwar_chris/morph.php

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[Michael Szalapski]

Precompose?

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[Michael Szalapski]

A search on this website for image, animation, flicker turned up a few results that may help.
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/2/905027#905027
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/2/898659#898665

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[Michael Szalapski]

Do you mean CS4? If so, that’s the newest version. If you actually mean you’re buying version 4…I hope you’re paying less than $10 for it. Unless this is some exercise in playing with antiques…

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[Michael Szalapski]

Like I did mention in my post, there is the Bezier Warp. There is also Reshape. Or you could just trace the T on a solid with a mask and then animate the mask.

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[Michael Szalapski]

Hooray for Dan (yet again)! He’s like a superhero; wherever there is (expression) trouble, he is there.

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[Michael Szalapski]

Right above where you type in things to post on the forum are a few buttons. One is a file upload and one is an image upload.

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