[Michael Szalapski]

This is more like bokeh:

What you’ve got there is more like a flare or a streak.

Regardless, there are many ways to do this. You can use Optical Flares or Knoll Light Factory to make lens flares on the hot points of a video (or an animation you create).

Or you can simply use the Lens Blur effect on something. Or you can use a copy of something with the Directional Blur effect on it set to screen. You know what? Here’s an example: 11462_waterbokehasaeversion12.aep.zip

There are other ways.

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[Michael Szalapski]

Which rope are you removing? It looks like two of them to me.
Anyway, you probably don’t need Mocha Remove module for this. You’ve got a pretty clean plate so I would simply make a freeze frame of the clean plate, motion track it to the shot and then, using a nicely feathered mask (or masks), place it only over the rope. You may need to add some grain back over the top of it the freeze-frame to help blend things, but that is a really fast shot so it might not be required.

Alternatively, you could simply try the CC Wire Removal effect.

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[Michael Szalapski]

In after effects it would be as easy as using any sort of stroke or write-on effect with the Roughen Edges effect applied and then you could use that layer to matte your logo. (You could either apply the Set Matte effect to the logo or you could use the paint/marker as a Track Matte for your logo layer.)

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[Michael Szalapski]

Does applying the Grow Bounds effect before anything else help?

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[Michael Szalapski]

Precompose and it’ll work.

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[Michael Szalapski]

Hooray! I’ll bet it has to do with how massively scaled that layer was and how AE handles AI files. Glad we found a way to get it to work! 🙂

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[Michael Szalapski]

If you can get a decent-looking MP4 out of Adobe Media Encoder, try simply changing the file extension from MP4 to MOV. See if it works for you. I’ve seen that do the trick in some cases.

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[Michael Szalapski]

How scaled up is it? What version of AE? What are your computer specs? What effects (if any) have been applied to that layer? What happens if you convert it to a shape layer?

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[Michael Szalapski]

Create a white solid. Apply a fill effect to it. Make the color black. Apply the CC Composite effect. Notice that you can keyframe the opacity in the CC Composite effect from 0% to 100%. This gives you an option to keyframe something from black to white without having multiple layers. Very handy.

Why would you want this?

Well, you can use that layer as a custom map for the alpha channel of a material in Element. So, make the letters you want to disappear use this custom layer for its alpha in the material.

You will see why Element doesn’t have an opacity control built in.

Since simple opacity changes do not work for 3d models, a better option would be to use two instances of Element. One with the letters showing and one without. Then fade the opacity up of the one with the extra letters.
If this produces an aliasing issue with the text that’s now on screen twice (once in each layer). You could just duplicate your main composition and in one of them use the Element version without some layers and then just crossfade between those two comps in another comp.

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[Michael Szalapski]

The quality level should be very similar if not identical.
Although, it would be easy to give it a quick test. Render the same frame (or sequence) as both PNGs and TIFs, import them both into AE, stack them on top of each other and flip the visibility of the top layer on and off. Do you see a difference? To check and be totally sure, you can use the Difference Blending mode for the top layer. Anything that’s not grey are areas where there are differences.

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