[Todd Kopriva]

I don’t have time to test with your file right now.

I very strongly recommend installing the bug-fix updates and seeing for yourself. There are many, many bugs fixed.

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
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[Todd Kopriva]

https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/cs5-cleaner-tool-installation-problems.html

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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[Todd Kopriva]

What exact codec are you using? The Sony F5 can record a lot of different formats into an MXF container.

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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[Todd Kopriva]

Roland’s answer was essentially the one that I was about to give.

You can also use the Refine Edge tool (and its cousin, the Refine Soft Matte effect) to help clean up the edges in areas where there is semitransparency and fine detail.

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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[Todd Kopriva]

You are four major bug-fix updates behind:
https://adobe.ly/DVA_updates

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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[Todd Kopriva]

See this for a bug fix in the Maxon Cinema 4D exchange plug-in for After Effects CC, which fixes the first error message listed on this thread: https://adobe.ly/PUHVms

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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[Todd Kopriva]

What that section of the Help is trying to tell you is that corrective strokes only propagate in one direction: away from the base frame. If you’re working forward in time, corrective strokes propagate forward; if you’re working backward from the base frame, corrective strokes propagate backward.

I tend to create new base frames (and therefore new spans) any time there is a significant change in the scene. I use lots of little spans. It also helps with performance.

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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[Todd Kopriva]

> I skip 3 or 5 frames and…

Go frame by frame.

Corrective strokes only apply outward from the base frame within a span, so just must make corrections on the first frame on which they’re necessary. Making a change a few frames later will not help on the previous frames.

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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[Todd Kopriva]

Start by purging the cache (Edit > Purge).

What exact version of After Effects? There have been a lot of fixes for caching bugs in the most recent updates.

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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[Todd Kopriva]

See your duplicate thread here:
https://forums.adobe.com/message/6225860

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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