[Michael Szalapski]

If you need to save strings of information, you could put that as source text in a hidden text layer.

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[Michael Szalapski]

If you park the CTI on one keyframe, select all of the keyframes and then scrub the values, you can move the entire animation to a particular point.

However, in your case, it might be better just to nest your big comp in your 1920×1080 comp.

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[Michael Szalapski]

I would apply a LUT pre-key so Keylight has more vibrant and contrasted colors with which to work.

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[Michael Szalapski]

Nothing you have suggested will work (especially not the ray-traced part). Can you explain in more detail the effect you are trying to achieve? We are likely going to have to find some completely other way to get what you want to happen.

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[Michael Szalapski]

I really do not understand what you are trying to ask. I don’t even know what you mean by the “stitch effect”. Please provide some more detail, examples, etc.

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[Michael Szalapski]

Starglow from the Trapcode Suite might get you some glimmers like what you want.
You also can get lens flares from highlights in footage with either Optical Flares from Video Copilot or Knoll Light Factory from Red Giant. Red Giant Universe also has some glows and such that might be helpful.

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[Michael Szalapski]

Trapcode Shine would get the glows going outwards.
A directional blur/pixel sorting kind of thing could get the glow going inwards if you used something like Polar Coordinates to make a line of images become a circle.

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[Michael Szalapski]

I’m sure there are a number of ways you could do this.
You could precompose your particles, create another precomp containing a solid with a gradient on it.
Then, in your main comp, apply a Time Displacement effect on your particle precomp and drive it with the precomp containing the gradient.

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You’re welcome! I’m glad you’ve found a workaround.

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[Michael Szalapski]

There is a Grid effect in AE that you could apply to solids or shape layers to get that grid look. Then it would just be a matter of adding some minor blur effects on a couple of duplicates with low opacity and use the screen or add blending mode on top of a blue gradient.

The “light bars” are pretty much just basic shapes with gradients. You could create them a myriad of ways. You could make them by just painting in Photoshop, using four point gradients in AE and scaling layers weirdly, playing with Fractal Noise in AE with crazy scale levels, etc.
This old-school tutorial [link] might point you in one interesting direction.

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