[Richard Garabedain]

maybe try saber

[Richard Garabedain]

Twirl and turbulent displacement will work pretty well.

[Richard Garabedain]

Have you checked your dpi? when you import are you importing as footage, composition or retain layer sizes..what version of photoshop and after effects are you using.

[Richard Garabedain]

oh i got it..create your objects moving around using cc sphere then make that a 3d layer that projects shadows on to a 3d set then use those shadows as a displacement map for your cc sphere…would that work..i think that would work..too bad you cant cast shadows that look like the objects color

[Richard Garabedain]

or dollar bills.

[Richard Garabedain]

it spins right…i would have the sphere that represents the light grown and shrink on a willge and add some kind of colored particles to the background, maybe confetti

[Richard Garabedain]

is your comp size bigger or smaller than 1500×1800

[Richard Garabedain]

CC SPHEREIZE THE COMP..o..and then try it on projection..perhaps use a displacement map of the scene

[Richard Garabedain]

it must be done in after effects, not primere..

[Richard Garabedain]

that is strange…maybe you could try selecting a point on the mask and going to layer-set first vertex and see if that helps at all.