Paul Conigliaro
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Instead of using AE to compress to SWF (really FLV embedded in an SWF), export to an uncompressed QT or AVI and use something like On2FlixPro or Sorenson Squeeze to get an swf or flv. They’ll give you many more options for compression settings.
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What codec are you using? Certain codecs like Animation or Uncompressed 4:2:2 are just too large to cache into RAM and end up stuttering. As much as it sucks to compress beautiful HD footage, it might be necessary. Try compressing it to ProRes(HQ) and see if that helps.
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In the end, the added cost of the drive is worth it compared to the time you’ll save by not working in HDV. If you can, I’d highly recommend not cutting in an HDV timeline to begin with. Transcode the footage to ProRes or Apple Intermediate Codec (though the latter is still a 4:1:0 compression) on capture or through Compressor afterwards. Your storage requirements go up, but you’ll avoid problems like this in AE and the dreaded “Comforming to HDV” progress window in FCP.
(Also, Command-Shift-3 and Command-Shift-4 are your friends 😉
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A combination of a Mesh Warp (or Liquify) and directional blur might work.
Use a copy of the layer (with a lower opacity) and animate the warp and blur as the clean layer “erases.” It will take a bit of playing around, but it should work.
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It would help, but still have issues, just at a different time in the comp.