[Rick Dane]

Thanks for the responses, I have 8GB ram / 64 bit system so thats why these slow render times have been confusing me, I will try it with the files on the 2nd hard drive and see if that speeds it up

[Rick Dane]

Ohhhhhh… yeah the same disk thing is what I think is doing it :).. thanks, I will install my other hard drive as that should fix it

[Rick Dane]

If you really wanted to go all out with this I think this would work (but you have to use a 3D software for it, like 3ds max)..

you can film a plane in the 3D software and animate the camera to give it the wiggles, shakiness that you want, then you export the animation of the plane from the view point of the camera (using a format that supports exporting the uv coordinates, like openexr) then you can use a plugin for after effects su as re:map uv (think thats what its called) or the youveelizer (https://maltaannon.com/articles/after-effects/youveelizer/) and then put the video footage onto that plane and play the animation.

Just figured I’d throw this out there since it might interest someone, I’m always thinking of weird ways to utilize 3D apps, I haven’t tested it myself but I think this would work and could give unique shakiness if done right but it would take some time to do.

[Rick Dane]

Well, I’m still new to after effects so someone else can probably give a better answer… but couldn’t you just copy / duplicate your one layer that has all the masks multiple times and then just use one of the masks on one layer each?

About the adding motion graphics, I’m not sure exactly what you mean by this (is it 3D animation you’re adding in or something else)? If its 3D I can give you some good pointers on where to start but otherwise I am not sure… if you are concerned with the camera movements matching the motion graphics you are inserting, I believe that would be a “rotoscoping” issue

[Rick Dane]

Thanks for the help, actually after more searching I even found a tutorial termed with “layer snapping” but yeah the lingo terminology problem is definitely prevalent when going from different softwares 🙂

[Rick Dane]

Edit: actually I think that the one I was doing was a video clip about 1 minute long and for this it was looping (from interpret footage) clips that were about 10 seconds long>

[Rick Dane]

Thanks, yeah that sounds like it’d work, I have been trying to use the help docs but not knowing terminology its hard to search for specifics things like this 🙂

[Rick Dane]

Thanks, it works great